Managing a business requires a lot of work. And on some days. it might even feel like that you won’t see the results of your dedication and sacrifices. That’s why we’ve gathered 50 amazing digital entrepreneurs motivational quotes to help you push through the rough gray days.
We understand that entrepreneurship can be lonely and whether you are starting or managing a business, the road simply doesn’t get easier making it hard to stay motivated.
But the truth is that every entrepreneur and startup CEOs go through a lot of ups and downs. So, we hope you can find some inspiration in some of these business quotes:
- “If we tried to think of a good idea, we wouldn’t have been able to think of a good idea. You just have to find the solution for a problem in your own life.” -Brian Chesky, Co-founder of Airbnb
- “One of the greatest skills of leadership is being unflappable. Anytime you do anything in the world; there’s going to be criticism.” -Arianna Huffington, Co-found and editor-in-chief of Huffington Post Media Group
- “When you are building a startup, it’s difficult. Particularly, a startup that is expanding at the rate of Tinder. You have to give 100%, and you have to be committed. Solving the problem has to be personal or else you’re going to disintegrate.” -Sean Rad, Co-founder of Tinder, Inc.
- “Success depends on employees. For me knowing and connecting with my employees is very important.” -Divine Ndhlukula, founder and managing director of DDNS Security Operations Ltd
- “Selling is not a pushy, winner-takes-all, macho act. It is an empathy-led, process-driven, and knowledge-intensive discipline. Because, in the end, people buy from people.” -Subroto Bagchi, Co-founder of Mindtree
- “Ignore the hype of the startups that you see in the press. Mostly, it’s a pack of lies. Half of these startups will be dead in a year. So, focus on building your business so you can be the one left standing.” -Jules Pieri, Co-founder and CEO of The Grommet
- “It’s important to realize that a brand is much more than a logo and slogan. A brand is who your company is: how you function and make decisions.” -Joanna McFarland, Co-founder of HopSkipDrive
- “Do not focus on numbers. Focus on doing what you do best. It’s about building a community who wants to visit your site every day because you create value and offer expertise.” -Cassey Ho, Founder of Blogilates.com
- “When in doubt, bootstrap. Using your own personal resources is the easiest way to start a business. You don’t have to convince investors about the merits of your idea. You just have to convince yourself.” -Ryan Holmes, Co-founder of Hootsuite
- “You have to see failure as the beginning and the middle, but never entertain it as an end.” -Jessica Herrin, founder and CEO of Stella & Dot
- “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
- “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” – Bill Gates
- “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
- “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
- “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
- “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein
- “As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.” – Donald Trump
- “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
- ”Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.” – Thomas Edison
- “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
- . “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
- “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”- Napoleon Hill
- “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” – Bill Cosby
- “Success is not what you have, but who you are.” – Bo Bennet
- “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 can’t.” – Warren G. Tracy’s student
- “To win without risk is to triumph without glory.” – Corneille
- “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
- “There is only one success- to be able to spend your life in your own way.” – Christopher Morley
- “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.”- Napoleon Hill
- “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
- “What is not started will never get finished” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “When you cease to dream you cease to live.” – Malcolm Forbes
- “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn
- “The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake- you can’t learn anything from being perfect.” – Adam Osborne
- “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell
- “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader
- “Choose a job that you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” – Confucius
- “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates
- “Every problem is a gift—without problems we would not grow.” – Anthony Robbins
- “You only have to do a few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.” – Warren Buffett
- “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anaïs Nin
- “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.” – G.K. Chesterton
- “I don’t know the word ‘quit.’ Either I never did, or I have abolished it.” – Susan Butcher
- “Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it’s starting a new business, whether it’s leaving home, whether it’s getting married, or whether it’s flying into space.” – Chris Hadfield
- “The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.” – Barack Obama
- “Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.” – William Durant
- “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved.” – Helen Keller
- “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
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We hope these inspirational quotes have fueled your drive on entrepreneurship. Always strive to take action and learn how to market your products better.
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