25 Words of Wisdom for the Entrepreneur

Friday, January 19, 2007 at 12:02pm by David Askaripour in Innovation

Start your day with some inspirational words from some of the most influential, powerful, and innovative, figures that ever lived. These minds of brilliance have changed the world and affected the minds of millions forever. Carefully consider their words when running your venture. If you ever need a motivational boost, read these quotes and study their words.

1. If you’re an entrepreneur, you’re going to break new ground. A lot of people are going to say it’s not possible. You can’t accept that too easily. A good entrepreneur is going to find a way.
   –John Osher
2. You think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don’t! If you want to win, but think you can’t, It’s almost a cinch you won’t. If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost; For out in the world we find Success begins with a fellow’s will; It’s all in the state of the mind. Life’s battles don’t always go To the stronger and faster man, But sooner or later the man who wins Is the man who thinks he can.
   –Walter D. Wintle
3. Chance favors only those minds which are prepared.
   -Louis Pasteur
4. If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.
   –Chinese Proverb
5. You are far more likely to succeed if you superbly execute a mediocre idea than if you execute a superb idea in a mediocre way.
   – Judson
6. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
   -Mark Twain
7. We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
   -Einstein
8. Your twenties are always an apprenticeship, but you don’t always know what for.
   -Jan Houtema
9. Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.
   –Napoleon Bonaparte
10. Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world
    –Sergey Brin
11. Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
    –Robert T. Kiyosaki
12. We will either find a way or make one.
    -Hannibal
13. The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t do.
    -Thomas Edison
14. Not a single person whose name is worth remembering lived a life of ease.
    -Ryan P. Allis
15. A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
    –Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, former Roman Emperor
16. The real source of wealth and capital in this new era is not material things.. it is the human mind, the human spirit, the human imagination, and our faith in the future.
    –Steve Forbes
17. The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job.
    –Michael Gerber
18. As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
    -Bill Gates
19. Give me a lever and a place to stand and I will move the world.
    -Archimedes
20. Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.
    –Winston Churchill
21. I am grateful for all my problems. I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come.
    –J.C. Penney
22. If you can’t play on a specific mountain, there’s no reason not to build your own.
    –Donald Trump
23. In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm.. in the real world all rests on perseverance.
    –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
24. The only way I can become great in this world is not by what I do to my body…but what I do to my mind.
    -From the movie “What the Bleep Do We Know?”
25. You have to have something inside you that wants to kill… You go out… and take the opportunity, that chance… You are king of the mountain.
    –Don, from the book “The Millionaire Mind”

Which one is your favorite quote and why?

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