Top 32 Quotes Every Entrepreneur Should Live By

Summary from Forbes.com post by Tanya Prive 5/2/2013

 The nature of being an entrepreneur means that you fully embrace ambiguity and are comfortable with being challenged regularly. Choosing this career path is completely irrational because the odds of success are dismal. Most succeed because of their unwavering belief, laser focus on delivering and persistence. Starting a business, is a riveting roller coaster of emotions with tremendous highs and at times, difficult lows.

1. "The best way to predict the future is to create it".- Peter Drucker
2. "It is fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure". - Bill Gates
3. "Your time is limited, so don't wast it living someones else life. Don't be trapped by dogma- which is living the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others opinions, drown out your own inner voice. And most important 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
4. "My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had. Everyday I am learning something new". - Richard Branson
5. "Every time you state what you want or what you believe, your the first to hear it. It is a message to both you and others, about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself". - Oprah Winfrey
6. "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
7. "Logic will get you from A to B; Imagination will take you everywhere". - Albert Einstein
8. "As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big". - Donald Trump
9. "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm". - Winston Churchill
10. "Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you did not do, than by the things that you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail from the safe Harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover.". - Mark Twain
11. "I do not know the keys to success but the key to failure is trying to please everyone". - Bill Cosby
12. "Success is not what you have but who you are". - Bo Bennet
13. Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people wont, so you can spend the rest of your life like most people cannot". Warren G. Tracy's student
14. "Keep away from people that try to belittle your ambitions. Small minded people always do that but the great ones make you feel like you too, can be great". - Mark Twain
15. "There is only one success- to be able to spend your life in your own way". - Christopher Morley
16. "Success is not the key to happiness; Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing you will be successful". - Albert Schweitzer
17. "When you cease to dream; You cease to live". - Malcolm Forbes
18. "Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune". - Jim Rohn
19. "The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake; You cant learn anything from being perfect". Adam Osborne
20. "A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way". - John C. Maxwell