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Top 20 Best Entrepreneurship Quotes 2024

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Entrepreneurs need to constantly refill the bucket of motivation. Being an entrepreneur (even a successful one) can be draining mentally and emotionally so it helps to have some daily inspiration. Entrepreneurship quotes are a free and simple ways to get and stay motivated daily in 2023 and 2024. 


While I am all about digital marketing, SEO, and social media I certainly have a deep love for entrepreneurship (I have been an entrepreneur since age 12) and the big picture of business and economics in general. I have started and managed many small businesses throughout my life and still do right now. I have a feeling I will always have at least a side hustle going no matter where my career takes me beyond my 25 years of entrepreneurial experience.

Business and entrepreneurship can be challenging in any profession, and often times it can be useful to seek motivation from great men and women of history and the current business arena. You may find some common themes in many of these entrepreneurial quotes that really speak to me such as perseverance, resilience, innovation, and bravery. Top entrepreneurship quotes inspire the young entrepreneur in all of us to achieve greatness in the face of business adversity in 2024.

Here are some of my favorite inspirational quotes from elite business icons:


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Top 20 Best Entrepreneurship Quotes 2024


1) "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." - Steve Jobs

2) "Hell - there are no rules here. We're trying to accomplish something!" - Thomas Edison

3) "The essential question is not 'how busy are you?' but "what are you busy at?'" Oprah Winfrey

4) "Quality means doing it right when no one is looking" -Henry Ford

5) "Passion should be the fire that drives your life's work." -Michael Dell

6) "Either you run the day, or the day runs you." - Jim Rohn

7) "Whether you think you can, or you think you can't -- you're right." - Henry Ford

8) "Every risk is worth taking if it's for a good cause, and contributes to a good life" 

9) "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work." - Thomas Edison

10) "There are no traffic jams on the extra mile." - Zig Ziglar

11) "To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart" 
-Thomas Watkins Sr.

12) "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life" -Steve Jobs

13) "There's no shortage of remarkable ideas, what's missing is the will to execute them" 

14 "You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great." - Zig Ziglar

15) "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." -Vidal Sassoon

16) "Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice." - Steve Jobs

17) "Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you."   - Henry Kaiser

18) "I'm not a businessman, I'm a business...man" - Jay Z

19) "If you want to be successful in a particular field, perseverance is one of the key qualities." 
- George Lucas

20) "Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you." - Tony Hsieh 

And just for good measure, I will throw in another personal favorite for added inspiration:

"The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo"
-Bob Iger, CEO of Disney

Thanks to all of these great entrepreneurial minds for the motivational entrepreneurship and business quotes! Those were the best entrepreneurship quotes of all time! 

Did I miss some top inspirational quotations? Which motivating quotes resonated most with you? Let me know on social media and share the entire link to this post so I will see it!


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So those are currently my Top 20 Business and Entrepreneurial quotes. It is always tough to make any top quotes list because inevitably you still leave out some of the biggest business legends and moguls. These may be subject to change but fear not, I will keep this updated over the months and years ahead. I am sure you will see additional quotes on my other social media and other blog posts. 

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Best of luck in business!

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