Inspiration for Entrepreneurs
March 25, 2008
“An entrepreneur is defined as a person who is willing to live like no one else will so that one day they can live like no one else can.” – Anonymous
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary” – Paul Mitchell, co-founder of Vidal Sassoon
“The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t do.” -Thomas Edison, inventor and scientist
“Successful people are not lucky. They make their own luck.” – Anonymous
“Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.” – Frederick Neitzsche
“The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process.” – Thomas Peters, management consultant and co-author of “In Search of Excellence”
“Entrepreneurs innovate. Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. It is the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.” – Peter F. Drucker, Investment Guru
“Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.” – Ayn Rand, Philosopher and author of “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead”
“If you can DREAM it, you can DO it.” - Walt Disney
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters to what lies within us.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.” - Harvey Mackay
“I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.” - Jonathan Winters
“The man who has no imagination has no wings.” - Muhammad Ali
“Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential.” - Winston Churchill
“Life without risks is not worth living.” - Charles A. Lindbergh
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” - Les Brown
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. Desiring is helpful, but work and desire are invincible.” - Thomas Robert Gaines
“Just Do It.” – Anonymous
“My son is now an ‘entrepreneur’. That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.” – Ted Turner, broadcasting entrepreneur
“The rich buy assets. The poor only have expenses. The middle class buys liabilities they think are assets.” – Robert T. Kiyosaki, author of “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”


