Entrepreneurship Quotes - Entrepreneur Quotations

All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
Herodotus

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.
Niccolo Machiavelli

The entrepreneur is not really interested in doing the work; he is interested in creating the way the company operates. In that regard, the entrepreneur is an inventor. He or she loves to invent, but does not love to manufacture or sell or distribute what he or she invents.
Michael Gerber

I did something that challenged the banking world. Conventional banks look for the rich; we look for the absolutely poor. All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.
Muhammad Yunus

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
Peter Drucker

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

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
Victor Kiam

The entrepreneur in us sees opportunities everywhere we look, but many people see only problems everywhere they look. The entrepreneur in us is more concerned with discriminating between opportunities than he or she is with failing to see the opportunities.
Michael Gerber

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

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.
Richard Branson

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Mark Twain

We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.
Bill Gates

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. 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

Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. It is capable of being presented as a discipline, capable of being learned, capable of being practiced. Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation, the changes and their symptoms that indicate opportunities for successful innovation. And they need to know and to apply the principles of successful innovation.
Peter Drucker

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

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vidal Sassoon

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.
Henry Kravis

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 entrepreneur is our visionary, the creator in each of us. We're born with that quality and it defines our lives as we respond to what we see, hear, feel, and experience. It is developed, nurtured, and given space to flourish or is squelched, thwarted, without air or stimulation, and dies.
Michael Gerber

To venture causes anxiety but not to venture is to lose one’s self.
Soren Kierkegaard

Profit is the payment you get when you take advantage of change.
Joseph A. Schumpeter

I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others. Just as I think it's important to run companies well, with a close eye to the bottom line, I think you have to use your entrepreneurial experience to make corporate philanthropy effective.
Carlos Slim Helu

The entrepreneur in us sees opportunities everywhere we look, but many people see only problems everywhere they look. The entrepreneur in us is more concerned with discriminating between opportunities than he or she is with failing to see the opportunities.
Michael Gerber

There is nothing more difficult to handle, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its outcome, than to take the lead in introducing a new order of things.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
Peter Drucker

An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovate, is doomed to decline and extinction.
Peter Drucker

Entrepreneurship is the ability to create and build from a vision practically nothing: fundamentally it is a human, creative act.
Jeffry Timmons

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 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

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there'd be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.
Bill Rancic

But do your thing, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.
Emerson

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.
Richard Branson

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay

Too Much Debt Quotes – Credit Card Debt Quotes – Consolidate Loans - Eliminate Debt - Bad Credit

Related: Don't miss these great quotes on frugal living and save money!

Debt is the slavery of the free.
Publilius Syrus

A good debt is not as good as no debt.
Chinese Proverb

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner;
for the master owns only your person,
but a creditor owns your dignity,
and can command it.
Quote from Les Miserables

One who restrains his appetites avoids debt.
Chinese Proverb

Borrowing money from a friend is like sex—it completely changes the relationship!
Quote from Seinfeld

Talking about debt collectors..."One guy called me everyday last week. I said, 'Look, every month I put everyone I owe into a hat, I pick three names, I pay those people. And if you call me one more time I'm taking you out of the hat.' They all want to be in the hat.
Margaret Smith

Stretch your leg only as far as your blanket.
Turkish Proverb

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.
Dutch Proverb
Credit card companies have been using unfair and deceptive practices to trick Americans into signing agreements they can't afford.
Barack Obama

Free from debt is free from care.
Chinese Proverb

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
Francois Rabelais

He that dies pays all debts.
William Shakespeare

A man in debt is so far a slave.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Winston Churchill

A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.
Publilius Syrus

Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
Moliere

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
Wendell Phillips


If I owe you a pound, I have a problem; but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours.

Lend less than you owe.
William Shakespeare


All things are difficult before they are easy.
John Norley

There are plenty of ways to get ahead. The first is so basic I'm almost embarrassed to say it: spend less than you earn.
Paul Clitheroe
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Barbara De Angelis, Ph.D.

Living modestly and being happy with what you have--therein lies the success of saving.
Scott Bilker

Financial success is having control over your finances rather than having your finances in control of you.
Scott Bilker

If you would like to know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
Benjamin Franklin

Live every day with an attitude of gratitude.
Joel Osteen

Organization is the key to success with anything.
Scott Bilker

Money is just the poor man's credit card.
Marshall McLuhan

If you talk about it, it's a dream. If you envision it, it's possible. But if you schedule it, it's real.
Anthony Robbins


Control your destiny, or someone else will!
Jack Welch

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane Austen

Never spend your money before you have it.
Thomas Jefferson


Too many men work on parts of things; doing a job to completion satisfies me.
Dick Proenneke


Borrow money from pessimists—they don't expect it back.
Steven Wright

You can't really have a happy life without having a healthy financial life.
Scott Bilker


Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.
Eric Butterworth




I feel like the luckiest girl in the world. And I had no idea I could be this happy without incurring credit card debt."
Elle Woods in "Legally Blonde 2"



Lack of money is the root of all evil.
George Bernard Shaw


Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale.
Zig Ziglar

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
Errol Flynn

If thou lend money to any of My people,...thou shalt not be to him as a creditor; neither shall ye lay upon him interest.
Exodus 22:24



I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E.E. Cummings


When you move beyond your fear, you feel free.
Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese? Quotes

When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.
Bill Balance


As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is, to use it as sparingly as possible; avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it; avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts, which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen, which we ourselves ought to bear.
George Washington


Action is the foundational key to all success. Knowing is not enough! Lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know.
Tony Robbins

A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
Edwin Land (inventor of the Polaroid camera)


If medical science continues to prolong life, some of us may eventually pay off the mortgage.
Jonathan Pond

If the American people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning.
Andrew Jackson

It saves a lot of trouble if, instead of having to earn money and save it, you can just go and borrow it.
Winston Churchill

O money, money, money. I'm not necessarily one of those who think thee holy, but I often stop to wonder how thou canst go out so fast when thou comest in so slowly.
Ogden Nash

There is no class of people in the world, who have such good memories as creditors.
P.T. Barnum

I have never been in a situation where having money made it worse.
Clinton Jones

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie

The way to learn to do things is to do things. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.
Mark Twain

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown

The greatest discovery is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
William James

It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.
Joel Osteen

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
Malayan Proverb

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Robert Frost


Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: "I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars."
Mark Twain


If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin

Neither a borrower or lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Shakespeare

Do not be made a beggar by banqueting upon borrow,
when thou hast nothing in thy purse:
for thou shall lie in wait for thine own life,
and be talked on.
Bible

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
George Bernard Shaw

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts;
you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
Lord Bryon

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
Quote from The Two Races of Men

Be sure you know a person well before you vouch for his credit. Better refuse than to suffer later.
Proverbs 11:15


The only way to beat the banks is to make them fight for your business!
Scott Bilker

Divorce sucks. Let me tell you, after five years of marriage for me it is devastating to have the person with the good credit move out.
Rich Vos


There's a fine line between, 'oh, that's cute' and 'I have to have that now.’
Larissa S. Bilker


Creating a budget is much easier than sticking to one.
Scott Bilker


Restless is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress.
Thomas A. Edison

The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax.
Albert Einstein

It is possible to pay another man's debts on his behalf, but it is not possible to make a guilty man innocent by suffering in his place.
Carl Lofmark

Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.
Seneca

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
Ogden Nash

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.
Benjamin Disraeli


God's dream is that you have an abundance, that you be totally out of debt, pay your house off, pay your credit cards off, and have so much overflow that you can be a blessing to everyone around you!
Joel Osteen

I paid the bank note, the car note, an' yes, I paid the 'phone bill too. An' then I turned around an' I found that the house note's due. Well, I'd love to take you out like I said I would, honey, But there's too much month at the end of the money.
Marty Stuart

Credit-Card-Itis: A documented syndrome resulting in pain in the rear that runs down the thigh due to pressure on a nerve from a wallet stuffed with credit cards.
New England Medical Journal

Time to get frugal! - Frugal Quotes - Thrifty Quotes

There are plenty of ways to get ahead. The first is so basic I'm almost embarrassed to say it: spend less than you earn.

Paul Clitheroe

Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Earl Wilson

Frugality the teacher is of wise and nobel counsel.

Anon

No man is rich enough to waste his money in putting on style.

Gustavits F. Swift

Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhill. Hermits have observed, if for only this reason, a frugal diet. For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received. 

Walter Benjamin

Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much.

Horace

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call involuntary poverty.

Henry David Thoreau

We are slaves of our needs; the fewer they are; they freer we are; the higher they are, the nobler the masters we serve.

John L. Spalding

He is richest who is content with the least; for content is the wealth of nature.

Socrates

The desires of man increase with his acquisitions.

Dr. Samuel Johnson

It is not the man who has little, but the man who craves more, who is poor.

Seneca the Younger

To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.

Marie Ebner-Eschenbach

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Epicurus

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.

Lin Yutang

He is richest who is content with the least; for content is the wealth of nature.

Socrates

Poor and content, is rich and rich enough.

William Shakespeare

My belief is that to have no wants is divine.

Socrates

We should employ our passions in the service of life, not spend life in the service of our passions.

Richard Steele

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Content thyself to live obscurely good.

Joseph Addison

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Elizabeth Hardwick

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

Samuel Johnson

 

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

Frank Hubbard

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Never let the defeat of the past rob you of the success of your future.

Ray Comfort

Less is more.

Mies van der Rohe

With greater emphasis on working to live, not living to work, we are creating awareness for simpler solutions, a more creative existence with healthier, happier longevity, for those brave enough to accept the challenge.

Tracey Smith

 

Getting money is like digging with a needle; spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Japanese Proverb

 

Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.

John Wesley

 

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

Andrew Carnegie

 

How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.

Nikos Kazantzakis

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

Gloria Steinem

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao Tzu

Happiness is making the most of what you have.

Rosamunde Pilcher

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

Aesop

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million, count half dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.

Heny D. Thoreau

 

Deprive yourself on nothing necessary for your comfort, but live in an honorable simplicity and frugality.

John McDonough

 

Be a thrifty steward of thy goods.

Sophocles

 

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Henry Ward Beecher

 

We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.

Charles Caleb Colton

 

 

He who doesn't find a little enough will find nothing enough.

Epicurus

 

 

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

Benjamin Franklin

 

 

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bertrand Russell

 

 

Thrift is the best means of thriving.

Charles J. Hare

 

 

The amount of money you have has got nothing to do with what you earn. People earning a million dollars a year can have no money and people earning $35,000 a year can be quite well off. It's not what you earn, it's what you spend.

Paul Clitheroe

 

 

If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it. It’s cheaper in the long run.

Felix Dennis

 

 

Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property.

Milton Friedman

 

 

I don’t go looking for somewhere to spend my money. You can step on a tube of toothpaste for a week, if you have to. I spend what I need to and give it away.

T. Boone Pickens

 

 

The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Les Williams

 

 

Being frugal does not mean being cheap!

It means being economical and avoiding waste.

Catherine Pulsifer

 

 

By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.

Agesilaus

 

 

With a few flowers in my garden, half dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

Lope de Vega

 

Simplicity, a thing most rare in our age.

Ovid

 

 

Economy is a savings bank into which men drop pennies and get dollars in return.

Josh Billings