Entrepreneurial Quotes

• Success should stem from entrepreneurial creativity, not political connectivity.

  Foster Friess

  Creativity, Political, Should

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• Strategic planning is the continuous process of making present entrepreneurial (risk-taking) decisions systematically and with the greatest knowledge of their futurity; organizing systematically the efforts needed to carry out these decisions; and measuring the results of these decisions against the expectations through organized, systematic feedback.

  Peter Drucker

  Expectations, Effort, Decision

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.120, Routledge

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• What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.

  Peter Drucker

  Entrepreneur, Innovation, Society

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.313, Routledge

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• One key to entrepreneurial success is to get a great group of people around you who believe in your idea.

  Richard Branson

  Inspiring, Believe, Keys

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

  Biz Stone

  Inspiring, Success, Perseverance

  Twitter post from Sep 03, 2010

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• Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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  Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

  Steve Jobs

  Graduation, Heart, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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  Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

  Zig Ziglar

  Positive, Thinking Of You, Attitude

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 08, 2014

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• If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

  Jack Welch

  Success, Encouragement, Business

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  You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

  Beverly Sills

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Incredible Quotations: 230 Thought-Provoking Quotes with Prompts to Spark Students' Writing, Thinking, and Discussion". Book by Jacqueline Sweeney, 1997.

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  Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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• 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

  Mistake, Passion, Young Entrepreneurs

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• The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.

  Marc Benioff

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can't learn anything from being perfect.

  Adam Osborne

  Encouraging, Business, Mistake

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• If you just work on stuff that you like and you're passionate about, you don't have to have a master plan with how things will play out.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Inspirational, Business, Young Entrepreneurs

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• Always deliver more than expected.

  Larry Page

  Business, Young Entrepreneurs, Marketing

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• If you can dream it, you can make it so.

  Belva Davis

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

  Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.

  Scott Belsky

  Motivational, Business, Young Entrepreneurs

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• Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.

  Tony Hsieh

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

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• An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

  Roy Ash

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

  David Ogilvy

  Inspirational, Business, Creativity

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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