Business owners love quotes. Anyone that’s been in the office of a business owner, no matter the size of the company, has seen a framed quote with some clever or motivational saying. Finding the exact quote that speaks to you can take time that we don’t all have. We want inspiration and we want it now!

Quotes by Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders

To help inspire your entrepreneurial efforts, here is an exhaustive list of amazing quotes on entrepreneurship by entrepreneurs.

On Entrepreneurship

"Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs." - Farrah Gray

“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.” - Scott Belsky

“There’s lots of bad reasons to start a company. But there’s only one good, legitimate reason, and I think you know what it is: it’s to change the world.” - Phil Libin

“I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man.” - Sean Carter aka Jay-Z

Destiny

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” - Peter Drucker

“One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you.” - Jeff Bezos

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." - Lao Tzu

On Success and Failure

“It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” - Bill Gates

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” - Thomas Edison

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” - Winston Churchill

"Eighty percent of success is showing up." - Woody Allen

"Fall seven times and stand up eight." - Proverb

“If Plan ‘A’ fails, remember you have 25 letters left.” - Chris Guillebeau

"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do." - Bob Dylan

“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” - Vince Lombardi

“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” - Richard Branson

On Innovation

"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." - Tony Robbins

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." - Maya Angelou

On Obstacles

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." - Ayn Rand

“You shouldn’t focus on why you can’t do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.” - Steve Case

“‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it's important to you and you want to do it "eventually," just do it and correct course along the way.” - Tim Ferriss

“Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.” - Voltaire