entrepreneur Quotes

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

• 458
• Self

I could either watch it happen or be part of it.

• 282
• success

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

• 216
• motivational

Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions.

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• legacy

I want to die on Mars, just not on impact.

• 84
• desire

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.

• 63
• attitude

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.

• 50
• creativity

Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you "don't have the time".

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• bad

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one

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• Education

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

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• Thought

If you never budge, don't expect a push.

• 35
• Risk

A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.

• 32
• Dreams

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.

• 22
• necessary

I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

• 21
• advice

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

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• trust

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

• 13
• Responsibility

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

• 13
• Diversity

People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too.

• 12
• Worth

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.

• 12
• Problems

The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.

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• concept

Claim ownership of your dreams.

• 10
• claim

I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

• 10
• future

An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information.

• 10
• information

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

• 10
• Service

Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.

• 10
• Management

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

• 10
• Enjoyment

Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.

• 9
• success

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

• 9
• Happiness

People who never get carried away should be.

• 6
• Enthusiasm

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

• 6
• Charity

Failure is success if we learn from it.

• 6
• Adversity

Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have.

• 5
• done

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

• 5
• Victory

Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

• 5
• Right

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

• 5
• Parenting

To measure the man, measure his heart.

• 5
• Character

Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.

• 4
• avoiding

To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.

• 4
• aware

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.

• 4
• becomes

The best vision is insight.

• 4
• Prophecy

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

• 4
• Persistence

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

• 4
• Dreams

Presence is more than just being there.

• 4
• Concentration

Relationships are leverage. If you give value to someone else first, you have leverage.

• 3
• relationships

Skills are cheap. Passion is priceless.

• 3
• passion

If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.

• 3
• Work

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

• 3
• Business

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.

• 3
• Advice

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

• 3
• Ability

Time – the one asset none of us are ever gonna get more of.

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• ever