I must
admit I love quotes. They give you insights into other people’s minds and
thoughts. So looking for quotes to motivate, inspire and teach us is something
we all need to do. They can also suggest different perspectives at particular
times.
Recently I
read Tanya Prive’s Forbes article (@TanyaPrive1) on the 32 best quotes for
#entrepreneurs which, with her permission, I present to you today.
Use them, allow them to
guide you, and learn from them.
To your success,
Luis Vicente
Top 32 Quotes Every
Entrepreneur Should Live By
(http://www.forbes.com/sites/tanyaprive/2013/05/02/top-32-quotes-every-entrepreneur-should-live-by/)
The nature of being an entrepreneur means that you
fully embrace ambiguity and are comfortable with being challenged regularly.
Choosing this career path is completely irrational because the odds of
succeeding are dismal, but most succeed because of their unwavering belief,
laser focus on delivering and persistence.
Starting a company is a riveting roller coaster of
emotions with tremendous highs and at times, difficult lows, but one thing that
always helps me through the ups and downs is to connect with some of the
greatest minds. Below are just a few of my favorite quotes:
1. “The best way to predict the future is to create
it.” - Peter Drucker
2. “Winners never quit and quitters never win.” - Vince Lombardi
3. “Your
time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped
by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t
let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most
important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow
already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” - Steve
Jobs
4. “My
biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one
long University education that I never had — everyday I’m learning something
new.” - Richard
Branson
5. “Every
time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a
message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a
ceiling on yourself.” - Oprah
Winfrey
7. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five
minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” - Warren Buffett
8. “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
9. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways
that won’t work.” - Thomas Edison
10. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will
take you everywhere.” - Albert Einstein
11. “As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway,
think big.” - Donald Trump
12. “Success is walking from failure to failure with
no loss of enthusiasm.” - Winston Churchill
13. “ Genius
is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.” - Thomas
Edison
14. “Twenty years from now you will be more
disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So
throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds
in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain
15. “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
16. “If you cannot do great things, do small things in
a great way.” - Napoleon Hill
17. “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to
failure is trying to please everybody.” - Bill Cosby
18. “Success is not what you have, but who you are.” - Bo Bennet
19. “Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your
life like most people won’t so you can spend the rest of your life like most
people cant.” - Warren G. Tracy’s student
20. “To win
without risk is to triumph without glory.” - Corneille
21. “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
22. “There is
only one success- to be able to spend your life in your own way.” - Christopher Morley
23. “Whatever
the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.” - Napoleon Hill
24. “Success is
not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you
are doing, you will be successful.” - Albert Schweitzer
25. “What is
not started will never get finished” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
26. “When you
cease to dream you cease to live.” - Malcolm Forbes
27. “Formal
education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” - Jim Rohn
28. “The most
valuable thing you can make is a mistake- you can’t learn anything from being
perfect.”- Adam Osborne
29. “A leader
is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”- John C. Maxwell
30. “The
function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”- Ralph Nader
31. “Choose a
job that you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”- Confucius
32. “Your most
unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”- Bill Gates
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