By Nicholas Tart
Success Quotes
- “There are two rules for success. 1) Never tell everything you know.” Roger H. Lincoln
- “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” Vidal Sassoon
- “Every single person I know who is successful at what they do is successful because they love doing it.” Joe Penna
- “Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity.” Will Smith
- “Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.” Thomas J. Watson
- “To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.” Thomas J. Watson
- “If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.”Claude McDonald
- “Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.” Earl Wilson
- “The road to success is always under construction.” Arnold Palmer
- “Anything the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” Napoleon Hill
- “Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” Napoleon Hill
- “Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right.” Henry Ford
Failure Quotes
- “Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.” Robert T. Kiyosaki
- “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Thomas Edison
- “Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.” John F. Kennedy
- “The biggest failure you can have in life is not trying at all.” Emil Motycka
- “I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.” George Burns
Leadership Quotes
- “Leaders don’t force people to follow, they invite them on a journey.” Charles S. Lauer
- “Example is not the main thing in influencing other people; it’s the only thing.” Abraham Lincoln
- “Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching.” George Van Valkenburg
- “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, ‘Go!’ -a leader says, ‘Let’s go!’.” E. M. Kelly
- “I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep.” Charles Maurice
Wisdom Quotes
- “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” Bertrand Russell
- “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”Aristotle
- “Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.” Stanislaw Lem
- “A ship in harbor is safe. But that’s now what ships are built for.” William Shedd
- “If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” Wayne Gretzky
- “I’m not a businessman. I’m a business, man.” Jay-Z
- “The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps – we must step up the stairs.” Vance Hayner
- “Do not wait to strike until the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” William B. Sprague
- “It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.” Grace Hopper
- “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” Mark Twain
- “One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.” Mooie
Humorous Quotes
- “I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.”Steven Wright
- “Ever notice how it’s a penny for your thoughts, yet you put in your two-cents? Someone is making a penny on the deal.” Steven Wright
- “Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.” Karl (maybe Groucho) Marx
- “I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.” Les Dawson
- “Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00—2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00.” Invoice from Charles Steinmetz
- “By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.” Robert Frost
- “My son is now an ‘entrepreneur’. That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.” Ted Turner
- “I didn’t go to college, but if I did, I would’ve taken all my tests at a restaurant, ’cause ‘The customer is always right.’” Mitch Hedberg
Money Quotes
- “Formal education will make you a living. Self education will make you a fortune.” Jim Rohn
- “The greatest reward in becoming a millionaire is not the amount of money that you earn. It is the kind of person that you have to become to become a millionaire in the first place.” Jim Rohn
- “If you’re not learning while you’re earning, you’re cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.” Napoleon Hill
- “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.” Henry Ford
- “After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.” Aristotle
- “I treat business a bit like a computer game. I count money as points. I’m doing really well: making lots of money and lots of points.” Michael Dunlop
- “All of my friends were doing babysitting jobs. I wanted money without the job.” Adam Horwitz
- “I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.” Robert Bosch
- “Lend your friend $20. If he doesn’t pay you back then he’s not your friend. Money well spent.” Ted Nicolas
- “Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” Will Smith
Practical Quotes
- “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” Agatha Christie
- “Hire character. Train skill.” Peter Schultz
- “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “You’ve got to stop doing all the things that people have tried, tested, and found out don’t work.” Michael Dunlop
- “I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others… I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.” Thomas Edison
- “If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not making decisions.” Catherine Cook
- “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” Bill Gates
- “One can get anything if he is willing to help enough others get what they want.” Zig Ziglar
- “An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.” Roy Ash
- “The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.” Nolan Bushnell
- “Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly, I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.” Theodore Roosevelt
Motivational Quotes
- “Everything started as nothing.” Ben Weissenstein
- “If you start with nothing and end up with nothing, there’s nothing lost.”Michael Dunlop
- “Start today, not tomorrow. If anything, you should have started yesterday.”Emil Motycka
- “Make it happen now, not tomorrow. Tomorrow is a loser’s excuse.” Andrew Fashion
- “Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.” Robert Orben
- “Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t.” Anonymous
- “Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.” Babe Ruth
- “You should always stay hungry. Stay hungry, so you can eat.” Syed Balkhi
- “If you’re not living life on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.”Anonymous
- “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” Peter Drucker
- “I wasn’t satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.” Donald Trump
- “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” Thomas Edison
- “You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.” Jim Rohn
- “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
- “Not a single person whose name is worth remembering lived a life of ease.”Ryan P. Allis
- “If you think that you are going to love something, give it a try. You’re going to kick yourself in the butt for the rest of your life if you don’t.” Joe Penna
Entrepreneurship Proverbs
- “The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.” Chinese Proverb
- “If you want one year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want ten years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want one hundred years of prosperity, grow people.” Chinese Proverb
- “Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”Japanese Proverb
- “Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.” Chinese Proverb
- “A bad workman blames his tools.” Chinese Proverb
- “A fall into a ditch makes you wiser.” Chinese Proverb
- “Defeat isn’t bitter if you don’t swallow it.” Chinese Proverb
- “The diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor the man perfected without trials.” Chinese Proverb
- “A jade stone is useless before it is processed; a man is good-for-nothing until he is educated.” Chinese Proverb
- “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Chinese Proverb
- “The loftiest towers rise from the ground.” Chinese Proverb
- “Building a castle is difficult. Defending and maintaining it is harder still.”Asian Proverb
- “A person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the man doing it.”Chinese Proverb
- “All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws.” Chinese Proverb
- “Don’t stand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.”Chinese Proverb
- “Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.” Hasidic Proverb
- “Failing to plan is planning to fail.” Chinese Proverb
- “If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.” Chinese Proverb
- “Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.” Chinese Proverb
- “Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.” Chinese Proverb
- “Find a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.” Confucius
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