25 MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES TO INSPIRE YOUR NEXT BUSINESS IDEA
With these motivational quotes from some of the most influential people in the world, you’ll not only find the inspiration you need for your next business idea but also be driven to make it a great success!
GETTING STARTED
1. “The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. 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
2. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into smaller manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” – Mark Twain
3. “What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone, know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.” – Dave Thomas
4. “Any time is a good time to start a company.” – Ron Conway
5. “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?”– Sheryl Sandberg
FAILURE
6. “I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.” – Jeff Bezos
7. “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.” – Drew Houston
8. “What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.” – Simon Sinek
9. “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
10. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
11. “Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” – Napoleon Hill
PERSEVERANCE
12. “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” – Steve Jobs
13. “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.” – Richard Branson
14. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth
15. “If you can’t fly then run. If you can’t run, then walk. If you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.”- Martin Luther King Jr.
16. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
MINDSET AND SUCCESS
17. “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t — you’re right.” – Henry Ford
18. “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo
19. “Be so good they can’t ignore you.” – Steve Martin
20. “Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.” – Timothy Ferriss
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. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
23. “Don’t worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.” – Oprah Winfrey
24. “Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you.” –Tony Hsieh
25. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray, businessman and investor
Compiled By Sherise Brooks
