Starting A Business Quotes

• The secret of getting ahead is getting started

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• 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. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big!

  Donald Trump

  Inspirational, Success, Business

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• Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out.

  Anita Roddick

  Strong Women, Young Entrepreneurs, Empowering

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• Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man". Book by William Hermanns, p. 143, 1983.

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• Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you're different, you will stand out.

  Anita Roddick

  Inspirational, Success, Mother

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• If you can dream it, you can do it.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The NBA is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

  Mark Cuban

  Business, Nba, Good Week

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• The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

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• I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Excerpts from an Oral History Interview with Daniel Morrow: "Advice for Future Entrepreneurs", americanhistory.si.edu. April 20, 1995.

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• Embrace what you don't know, especially in the beginning, because what you don't know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else.

  Sara Blakely

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Business

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• When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

  Audre Lorde

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  "The Cancer Journals". Book by Audre Lorde, 1980.

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• Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.

  Howard Aiken

  Business, Science, Office Work

  "A Computer Science Reader : Selections from Abacus" by Eric A. Weiss, (p. 404), 1988.

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• A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Success, Graduation

  "Mansfield News Journal" Newspaper, August 3, 1965.

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• You can go as far as your mind lets you.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Success, Believe

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• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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  The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Inspirational, Morning, Business

  "Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg -- Insights For Entrepreneurs" by Steve Tobak, www.cbsnews.com. October 31, 2011.

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  The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance.
  Remember, the greatest failure is to not try.
  Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.

  Debbi Fields

  Positive, Business, Fear

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• ‎The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• 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

  Inspiring, Motivation, Regret

  "King of Cyber-Commerce". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 4, 2001.

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• Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.

  Robert Collier

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Business, Hard Work, Starting Up

  "Mina Bekheet - Cofounder of Oxford Biotech". Enterprising Oxford interview, www.eship.ox.ac.uk.

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• You shouldn't focus on why you can't do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.

  Steve Case

  Inspirational, Positive, Business

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