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35 Entrepreneur Quotes On Success

Last Updated Sept 2023

An entrepreneur is an individual who creates a new business, bearing most of the risks and enjoying most of the rewards. The entrepreneur is commonly seen as an innovator, a source of new ideas, goods, services, and business/or procedures. Entrepreneurs play a key role in any economy, using the skills and initiative necessary to anticipate needs and bring good new ideas to market. Entrepreneurs who prove to be successful in taking on the risks of a startup are rewarded with profits, fame, and continued growth opportunities. Those who fail, suffer losses and become less prevalent in the markets. May these Entrepreneur Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.

1. “The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you’ll fail ten times for every success.” Adam Horowitz

2. “Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business.” Peter Diamandis

3. “From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I’ve felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people’s lives better.” Richard Branson

4. “To any entrepreneur: if you want to do it, do it now. If you don’t, you’re going to regret it.” Catherine Cook

5. “An entrepreneur is born, when a person has more reasons to drive his dreams against his excuses.” Sukant Ratnakar

6. “Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.” Ian Ziering

7. “In the journey of an entrepreneur, the most important thing is self-belief and the ability to convert that belief into reality.” Mukesh Ambani

8. “I’d rather invest in an entrepreneur who has failed before than one who assumes success from day one.” Kevin O’Leary

9. “Just like any business is a living, breathing thing, an entrepreneur has to be able to adapt over time.” Robert Herjavec

10. “Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.” Zig Ziglar

11. “An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made.” Daymond John

12. “The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.” Peter Drucker

13. “As an entrepreneur, one of my biggest struggles is that you have to focus, but you also have to expand.” Jason Blum

14. “You must fall in love with what you do, because being an entrepreneur is a lot of hard work, and overcoming a lot of adversity. From that love will come the dedication that will get you out of bed at 4 a.m. because of a great idea you just had and get you to work till 11 p.m. and not feel tired.” Ken Field

15. “As an entrepreneur, one of the biggest challenges you will face will be building your brand. The ultimate goal is to set your company and your brand apart from the crowd. If you form a strategy without doing the research, your brand will barely float – and at the speed industries move at today, brands sink fast.” Ryan Holmes

16. “A real businessman or entrepreneur has no enemies. Once he understands this, the sky’s the limit.” Jack Ma

17. “Any successful entrepreneur knows that time is more valuable than money itself.” Richard Branson

18. “Every entrepreneur has to deal with hardship, but if we’re tough enough and thoughtful enough, we can find a way to make hard things make us better.” Eric Greitens

19. “Even if you’re not yet an entrepreneur, you can be entrepreneurial in everything you do. If you view each stop as an opportunity to learn something, there is always something you will take away from that experience.” Tory Burch

20. “Every entrepreneur needs ideas, vision, and creativity – no matter what the product or service. Not only that, but the product should truly delight customers and become an essential part of their lives.” Min Kao

21. “I’m an optimist. You can’t be an entrepreneur if you’re not essentially an optimist, so I’m an optimist by nature.” John Sculley

22. “A person who sees a problem is a human being; a person who finds a solution is visionary; and the person who goes out and does something about it is an entrepreneur.” Naveen Jain

23. “The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.” Richard Branson

24. “But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you’re confident that you’ll catch a bird flying by. It’s an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn’t come by, but a few times it does.” Reed Hastings

25. “If you want to be an entrepreneur, it’s not a job, it’s a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations, about going home at 6 pm – last thing at night you’ll send emails, first thing in the morning you’ll read emails, and you’ll wake up in the middle of the night. But it’s hugely rewarding as you’re fulfilling something for yourself.” Niklas Zennstrom

26. “I love to brainstorm. I like to mentor. When you’re starting out, especially as an entrepreneur, you really don’t know what you’re doing. You go out there and you try so many things. The key in the process, to me, is that you keep trying and you never give up.” Debbi Fields

27. “Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That’s the classic great entrepreneur.” Mohnish Pabrai

28. “A successful entrepreneur can’t be afraid of failures or setbacks. An initial setback can be a great opportunity to take a new and more promising approach to any problem, to come back stronger than ever.” John Roos

29. “An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.” Roy Ash

30. “A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.” Nolan Bushnell

31. “The story of the entrepreneur is the story of forward progress, of pursuing one’s dreams and goals no matter how outlandish they seem to others. The entrepreneur, like the pioneer, pushes boundaries in search of what’s new, what’s next. Sometimes, he brings the whole society with him, rushing forward together into a next phase of our communal human life.” Sam Wyly

32. “Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur: an ability to fail, an ability to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on those ideas, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.” James Altucher

33. “The most dangerous thing for an entrepreneur to do is to actually go into a business that he does not understand fully.” Aliko Dangote

34. “The strongest thing you can cultivate as an entrepreneur is to not rely on luck but cultivating an ability to recognize fortunate situations when they are occurring.” Jack Dorsey