Top 200 Best

Success Quotes Of
All Times
A comprehensive list of quotes about
entrepreneurship, success and goal achievement.

Compiled by AmbitionOasis.com

1. Dont just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will
never grow from it. Jim Rohn
2. Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become
an expert in anything. W. Clement Stone
3. When you cease to dream you cease to live. Malcolm Forbes
4. All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
Napoleon Hill
5. Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve. Dr.
Napoleon Hill
6. Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Cicero
7. Id say its been my biggest problem all my life.. its money. It takes a lot of
money to make these dreams come true. Walt Disney
8. You dont buy a nice car and get rich you get rich and buy a nice car.
Unknown

9. Have the end in mind and every day make sure your working towards it.
Ryan Allis
10. Do not wait to strike until the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William B. Sprague
11. Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom. General George
Patton
12. Ive been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess
something along those lines. I wouldnt want a 9-5 job. Will Estes
13. Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel
about what you know. Jim Rohn
14. If you start with nothing and end up with nothing, theres nothing lost.
Michael Dunlop

15. Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill
16. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vidal Sassoon
17.

Be nice to geeks, youll probably end up working for one. Bill Gates

18. Every single person I know who is successful at what they do is

successful because they love doing it. Joe Penna
19. As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.
James Cash Penney
20. If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do
something with the answers. Bo Bennett
21. A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. Henry
Ford
22. As long as youre going to be thinking anyway, think big. Donald
Trump

23. If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then its
moving you away from your goals. Brian Tracy
24. In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real
world all rests on perseverance. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
25. Money and success dont change people; they merely amplify what is
already there. Will Smith
26. You cant ask customers what they want and then try to give that to
them. By the time you get it built, theyll want something new. Steve Jobs
27. Business opportunities are like buses, theres always another one
coming. Richard Branson
28. For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the
truth. Bo Bennett

29.

Success is not in what you have, but who you are. Bo Bennet

30. 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
31. Youve got to stop doing all the things that people have tried, tested, and
found out dont work. Michael Dunlop
32. Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone
than in bad company. Booker T. Washington
33. If you always do what youve always done, youll always get what youve
always got! Alan Scott
34. The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television
is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to
make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.
Tom Hooper
35. There is only one success to be able to spend your life in your own
way. Christopher Morley
36. 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
37. If you think that you are going to love something, give it a try. Youre
going to kick yourself in the butt for the rest of your life if you dont. Joe
Penna
38. In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but
planning is indispensable. Dwight D. Eisenhower
39. I think when I was on the corporate ladder, it was very difficult to
maintain the hours. Its a little easier when you have youre an
entrepreneur. Tory Burch

40. My son is now an entrepreneur. Thats what youre called when you
dont have a job. Ted Turner
41. 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
42. Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was
more than you promised and easier than you said. Jim Rohn
43. There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking,
engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now
transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative
economy. John Baldacci
44. First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens
again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and
businessman a thief against his own will. Aleksandr Lebed
45. A mans worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions. Marcus
Aurelius Antoninus
46. Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
47. To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your
business in your heart. Thomas J. Watson
48. Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of
economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneur
will and spirit of the American people, somewhere else. Allen West
49. If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that.
Word of mouth is very powerful. Jeff Bezos
50. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want
done because he wants to do it. Dwight D. Eisenhower
51. An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to
the success of whatever he or she undertakes. Victor Kiam

52.

You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills. Jim Rohn

53. The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, Go! a leader
says, Lets go!. E. M. Kelly
54. If youre not living life on the edge, youre taking up too much space.
Anonymous
55. 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
56.

Everything started as nothing. Ben Weissenstein

57. Formal education will make you a living. Self education will make you a
fortune. Jim Rohn
58. Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found
together. Napoleon Hill
59. After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The
game is what counts. Aristotle
60. The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and
exploits it as an opportunity. Peter Drucker
61. I have not failed. Ive just found 10,000 ways that wont work. Thomas
Edison
62.

Its better to own the racecourse then the race horse. Unknown

63. What is not started will never get finished. Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe
64. The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a
politician is all in one word: freedom. Silvio Berlusconi
65. 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

66. If youre not learning while youre earning, youre cheating yourself out
of the better portion of your compensation. Napoleon Hill
67.

A goal is a dream with a deadline. Napoleon Hill

68.

When you go to buy, dont show your silver. Chinese Proverb

69. Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the
result of selfishness. Napoleon Hill
70.

Every choice you make has an end result. Zig Ziglar

71.

Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners. Robert T. Kiyosaki

72. Nothing turns off an investor more than when an entrepreneur comes in
with a ridiculous valuation. Kevin Harrington
73. There are two rules for success. 1) Never tell everything you know.
Roger H. Lincoln
74. The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job.
Michael Gerber
75.

He who begins many things finishes but few. German Proverb

76. Money wont make you happy but everybody wants to find out for
themselves. Zig Ziglar
77.

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. Nolan Bushnell

78. The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake you cant learn
anything from being perfect. Adam Osborne
79. If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the
ordinary. Jim Rohn
80. Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step
beyond their greatest failure. Napoleon Hill
81. The biggest failure you can have in life is not trying at all. Emil
Motycka

82. Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find
your customers buying from them, not you. Mark Cuban
83. The most important thing in communication is to hear what isnt being
said. Peter F. Drucker
84. If youre not making mistakes, then youre not making decisions.
Catherine Cook
85. You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be
anything you wish to be. Robert Collier
86. Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of
ourselves. E. Joseph Cossman
87. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Bill Gates

88.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. Mark Twain

89. I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasnt 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
90. The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more
followers. Ralph Nader
91. Not a single person whose name is worth remembering lived a life of
ease. Ryan P. Allis
92. Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice. Peter
Drucker
93. One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth
watching. Mooie
94.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. Thomas Carlyle

95. If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken. Gary
Vaynerchuk

96. Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are
without ideas. One without the other is worthless. Tim Blixseth
97. Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
98. Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching. George Van
Valkenburg
99. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have Zig
Ziglar
100. I dont pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of
money because I pay good wages. Robert Bosch
101. Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving
process. Jim Rohn

102. To win without risk is to triumph without glory. Corneille

103. Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you
want to be. W. Clement Stone

104. Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. Jim Rohn
105. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. Walt Disney
106. If everything seems under control, youre just not going fast enough.
Mario Andretti
107. Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity. Will
Smith
108. The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is
now. Chinese Proverb
109. In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original
thinker unless you can also sell what you create. David Ogilvy

110. Todays developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur

of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance
to celebrate the worth of his enterprise. Arthur Erickson
111. Ideas are worthless. Execution is what matters. Dane Carlson
112. You wont get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it. John
Lennon
113. You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality. Les
Brown
114. Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein
115. Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you
do it. W. Clement Stone

116. You should always stay hungry. Stay hungry, so you can eat. Syed
Balkhi
117. Make it happen now, not tomorrow. Tomorrow is a losers excuse.
Andrew Fashion
118. Once you say youre going to settle for second, thats what happens to
you in life. John F. Kennedy
119. Ive been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies. Marc
Andreessen
120. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
John C. Maxwell
121. Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people
wont, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people cant.
Anonymous
122. Its easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. Grace Hopper
123. The secret of getting ahead is getting started. Agatha Christie

124. Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it. Napoleon Hill

125. Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.
Unsuccessful people are asking, Whats in it for me? Brian Tracy
126. Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the
entrepreneur contributes to production. Joseph A. Schumpeter
127. Anything the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Napoleon
Hill
128. Lend your friend $20. If he doesnt pay you back then hes not your
friend. Money well spent. Ted Nicolas
129. Failure is not about insecurity. Its about lack of execution. Jeffrey
Gitomer
130. The road to success is always under construction. Arnold Palmer
131. Start today, not tomorrow. If anything, you should have started
yesterday. Emil Motycka
132. Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been
attained, progress stops. Thomas J. Watson
133. I treat business a bit like a computer game. I count money as points. Im
doing really well: making lots of money and lots of points. Michael Dunlop
134. One can get anything if he is willing to help enough others get what they
want. Zig Ziglar
135. Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative
thinking will. Zig Ziglar

136. Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is
just one more good idea. Jim Rohn
137. I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that
I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% still

better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work. Barbara
Corcoran
138. A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit
from them, and strong enough to correct them. John C. Maxwell
139. Ive always been an entrepreneur, but its never been about the money. I
like a challenge, the harder the better. Terry McAuliffe
140. Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
Natalie Clifford Barney
141. If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own
mind before you actually arrive at your goal. Zig Ziglar
142. Ive always worked very, very hard, and the harder I worked, the luckier
I got. Alan Bond

143. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Chinese

Proverb
144. Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie
145. Failing to plan is planning to fail. Chinese Proverb
146. A bad workman blames his tools. Chinese Proverb
147. The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. Jim Rohn
148. If you dont have a competitive advantage, dont compete. Jack Welch
149. The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it. William
James
150. Fall seven times, stand up eight. Japanese Proverb
151. If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. Derek Bok
152. If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share. W. Clement
Stone

153. Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory. Fortune
Cookie
154. A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur asked me a question
sometime ago, he said, When is the last time you saw a Hispanic
panhandler? I think its a great question. Ill tell you, in my life Ive never
once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would
be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Ted Cruz
155. An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping
hell quickly learn how to chew it. Roy Ash

156. If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the
lock. Claude McDonald
157. An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. Ralph Waldo Emerson

158. If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. Napoleon
Hill
159. Dont make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who
will force you to lever yourself up. Thomas J. Watson
160. It is always the start that requires the greatest effort. James Cash
Penney
161. Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
Maya Angelou
162. I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it
by day and dream of it by night. Henry Ford
163. You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare
to win, and expect to win. Zig Ziglar
164. Thats a tough question; Ive been acting since I was 10. My dad was an
entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldnt want a 9-5
job. Will Estes

165. Ive learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
Jack Welch
166. When I finished school, I took my entire life savings $5,000 and
invested it in a business. I was young. I was inexperienced. But I was an
entrepreneur, and I was proud. And in six weeks, I was broke. Mark
Warner
167. But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an
aeroplane because youre confident that youll catch a bird flying by. Its an
act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesnt
come by, but a few times it does. Reed Hastings
168. Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people
in America. If Im not there, I go to work. Robert Orben
169. Go Big, or Go Home. Eliza Dushku
170. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your
fear of failure. Bill Cosby
171. A savvy entrepreneur will not always look for investment money, first.
Daymond John
172. The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.
Colin R. Davis
173. Vision without action is daydreaming and action without vision is a
nightmare. Anon
174. The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch
today is abysmal. David Geffen

175. Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement,

achievement, and success have no meaning. Benjamin Franklin
176. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls
and looks like work. Thomas Edison

177. Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be. Jack Welch

178. The longer youre not taking action the more money youre losing.
Carrie Wilkerson
179. Example is not the main thing in influencing other people; its the only
thing. Abraham Lincoln
180. The best way to predict the future is to create it. Peter Drucker
181. An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company
is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made.
Daymond John
182. One doesnt discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the
shore for a very long time. Andre Gide
183. I dont know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please
everybody. Bill Cosby
184. Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic. Dale Carnegie
185. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working
together is success. Henry Ford
186. Leaders dont force people to follow, they invite them on a journey.
Charles S. Lauer
187. I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author. Ray Kurzweil
188. Hire character. Train skill. Peter Schultz
189. I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I cant accept not
trying. Michael Jordan
190. 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
191. Whether you think you can or you cant, youre right. Henry Ford

192. I wasnt satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a
statement. Donald Trump
193. The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius
194. Yesterdays home runs dont win todays games. Babe Ruth
195. Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. Earl Wilson
196. All of my friends were doing babysitting jobs. I wanted money without
the job. Adam Horwitz

197. Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the
impossible. Marion C. Garretty
198. The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity
when it comes. Benjamin Disraeli
199. If you aint making waves, you aint kickin hard enough. Unknown
200. We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger
state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of
punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated
for the sake of attaining greater income equality. Arthur C. Brooks