Successful Entrepreneurs Quotes

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  Steve Jobs

  Motivational, Inspirational Life, Hard Work

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

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• Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

  Donald Trump

  Motivational, Money, Business

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.28, Ballantine Books

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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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• No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.

  Reid Hoffman

  Teamwork, Business, Crazy

  Ben Casnocha, Reid Hoffman (2012). “The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career”, p.83, Random House

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• It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Entrepreneur, Exhausted, Winner And Loser

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• Sing your song; don't let the bastards get you down.

  Garrison Keillor

  Song, Entrepreneur, Best Business

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• It doesn't matter how many times you fail. It doesn't matter how many times you almost get it right. No-one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you. All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.

  Mark Cuban

  Failure, Entrepreneur, Lucky

  Mark Cuban (2011). “How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It”, p.43, Diversion Books

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• When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the choice. You can overcome and be a winner, or you can allow it to overcome you and be a loser. The choice is yours and yours alone. Refuse to throw in the towel. Go that extra mile that failures refuse to travel. It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Motivational, Inspiring, Success

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• Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Running, Business, Entrepreneur

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• Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

  Arianna Huffington

  Inspiring, Running, Business

  FaceBook post by Arianna Huffington from Mar 22, 2014

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• If you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much space.

  Stephen Hunt

  Motivational, Adventurous Life, Space

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• Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

  Zig Ziglar

  Loyalty, Business, Educational

  "Smarter Branding Without Breaking the Bank: Five Proven Marketing Strategies You Can Use Right Now to Build Your Business at Little Or No Cost". Book by Brenda Bence (p. 91), November 7, 2011.

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• My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself

  Richard Branson

  Motivation, Entrepreneur, Challenges

  FaceBook post by Richard Branson from Feb 27, 2014

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• High expectations are the key to everything.

  Sam Walton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Sam Walton Is Dead At 74; the Founder Of Wal-Mart Stores" by Thomas C. Hayes, www.nytimes.com. April 6, 1992.

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• My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

  Ted Turner

  Success, Jobs, Business

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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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• No hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me.

  Colonel Sanders

  Business, Kfc, Giving

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

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• You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done.

  Russell Simmons

  Business, People, Entrepreneur

  Twitter post from Jan 06, 2017

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• Don't take too much advice.

  Ben Silbermann

  Advice, Entrepreneur, Levers

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• Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.

  Steve Jobs

  Men, Best Job, Design Work

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.57, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.

  Ingvar Kamprad

  Success, Business, Inspiration

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• Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.

  Jack Dorsey

  Business, Hard Work, Starting Up

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• Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Work, Life Changing

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

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• I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.

  Madam C. J. Walker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

  Colonel Sanders

  Life, Motivational, Determination

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

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