Inspirational Quotes For Startups and Entrepreneurs

“Change before you have to.”

-Jack Welch, Former Chairman and CEO of General Electric

“A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.”

– J. P. Morgan

“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”

– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“By changing nothing, nothing changes.”

– Tony Robbins

“There’s always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don’t just dream.”

– Dan Gable

“It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.”

– Honore de Balzac

“Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.”

– Mandy Hale

“If you can dream it, you can do it.”

– Walt Disney

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”

– Pablo Picasso

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”

– Peter Drucker

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

– Steve Jobs

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”

– Theodore Roosevelt

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit”

– Aristotle

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

– George Eliot

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”

– Mark Twain

“Action is the real measure of intelligence.”

– Napoleon Hill

“I am easily satisfied with the very best.”

– Winston Churchill

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

– John D. Rockefeller

“There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.”

— Douglas MacArthur

“You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.”

– Albert Camus

“The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.”

– Aristotle Onassis

“A mind stretched by a new idea can never return to its original dimensions.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.”

– Arnold Palmer, quoted in USA Today

“We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.”

– Michel de Montaigne, quoted in Forbes.com

“If you’re not willing to risk, then you can’t grow in life!”

– Les Brown