Entrepreneurship & Business: Entrepreneur Quotes

Explore a curated selection of entrepreneur quotes that highlight ambition, resilience, and strategic thinking. These reflections from founders, innovators, and business leaders aim to spark focus and perseverance through each stage of building. Use them for a quick boost before a pitch, to anchor team meetings, or to reset during challenging pivots. The collection balances timeless wisdom with practical motivation, encouraging clear decisions, measured risk-taking, and momentum toward sustainable growth.

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"The first clothing line I had was called Very Rue. Then we changed the name and moved to QVC, and the name became A Touch of Rue"

Rue McClanahan, Actress

"I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts"

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

John D. Rockefeller

"Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming"

Richard Branson, Businessman

Richard Branson

"Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth"

Peter Drucker, Businessman

Peter Drucker

"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, Writer

Niccolo Machiavelli

"Entrepreneurs take measured risks, not hopeless gambles"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

Charlie Kirk

"The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way"

Milton Friedman, Economist

Milton Friedman

"The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies"

Fisher Stevens, Actor

"A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make"

Charles Eames, Designer

Charles Eames

"I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been"

Sam Walton, Businessman

"Jobs are a priority for every country. Doing more to improve regulation and help entrepreneurs is the key to creating jobs - and more growth"

Paul Wolfowitz, Celebrity

"Conservatives by and large believe in the corrective power of the free market above all. If we don't like how private companies are doing business, we should just start our own to compete, right?"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

Charlie Kirk

"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done"

Henry Ford, Businessman

Henry Ford

"Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

Thomas Edison

"Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We've got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality"

Ross Perot, Businessman

Ross Perot

"Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production"

Joseph A. Schumpeter, Economist

"Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well"

Art Linkletter, Journalist

"For my first fragrance, I wanted to capture the essence of a woman's strength and beauty"

Ivanka Trump, Businesswoman

Ivanka Trump

"There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

Charles F. Kettering

"The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity"

Peter Drucker, Businessman

Peter Drucker

"I'm the No. 1 developer in New York, I'm the biggest in Atlantic City, and maybe we'll keep it that way"

Donald Trump, Businessman

Donald Trump

"A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator"

Paul Valery, Poet

Paul Valery

"If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business"

Ray Kroc, Businessman

Ray Kroc

"I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company"

Jay-Z, Musician

"Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual"

Natalie Clifford Barney, Author

"When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts"

Larry Ellison, Businessman

"America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to"

Larry Elder, Journalist

"I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author"

Ray Kurzweil, Inventor

"Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda"

Ralph Steadman, Cartoonist

"Right now, I'm working with Super Bakery and we manufacture nutritional donuts called Super Donuts"

Franco Harris, Athlete

"Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don't do it"

Mark Cuban, Businessman

"The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs"

Alfred P. Sloan, Businessman

Alfred P. Sloan

"I have several computer companies. One of them I have a program for wide-format printing. I have a beauty program. So I have several different programs that I own for printing"

Jerry Mathers, Actor

"A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest"

Elle Macpherson, Model

"They said pret-a-porter will kill your name, and it saved me"

Pierre Cardin, Designer

"I started my own little carpet and upholstery cleaning business. I've done it for 20 years. I live well"

Tommy Kirk, Actor

"We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true"

Jon Huntsman, Jr., Politician

"A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997"

Andy Hertzfeld, Inventor

Andy Hertzfeld

"If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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