Being an entrepreneur, particularly in the early days can be tough. The wise words of others who have gone before and succeeded, often inspires and provides the fuel to move forward.
In this book you will find quotations that are perfect for almost every situation an entrepreneur faces, from individuals as diverse as Abraham Lincoln to Bill Gates and Mark Twain to Anita Roddick.
We hope they inspire and motivate you in the way they do us.
Martin Soorjoo
Founder
Investor Pitch Clinic
2. Being an entrepreneur, particularly in the early days can be
tough. The wise words of others who have gone before and
succeeded, often inspires and provides the fuel to move
forward.
In this book you will find quotations that are perfect for almost
every situation an entrepreneur faces, from individuals as
diverse as Abraham Lincoln to Bill Gates and Mark Twain to Anita
Roddick.
We hope they inspire and motivate you in the way they do us.
Martin Soorjoo
Founder
6. “You've got to get up every morning with
determination if you're going to go to
bed with satisfaction.”
George Lorimer
7. "Every day at a startup is a roller
coaster."
Mike Hudack CEO,Co-Founder Blip TV
8. "It’s never too late to be who you might
have been’”
George Elliot
9. "When you innovate, you’ve got to be
prepared for people telling you that you
are nuts. "
Larry Ellison , Founder Oracle
10. “Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an
action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a
character; sow a character, reap a
destiny.”
Chinese Proverb
11. Advice for every pitch
situation a modern day
entrepreneur will encounter
Whether you're pitching for
funding, the media, or to
potential customers and
partners, to survive and
succeed as an entrepreneur,
you have to know how to
deliver a high-impact
pitch. Here's the Pitch reveals
powerful proven techniques
to get your audience to take
the action you want.
You'll learn the same
strategies and tactics that
have been used by
entrepreneurs to raise
millions of dollars, secure
partnerships, and win big
sales contracts.
12. "We were young, but we had good
advice and good ideas and lots of
enthusiasm."
Bill Gates
13. “I could not wait for success, so I went
ahead without it”
Jonathan Winters
14. "The middle of every successful project
looks like a disaster"
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
15. “You can’t build a reputation on what
you’re going to do.”
Henry Ford
17. “If you are not willing to risk the unusual,
you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
Jim Rohn
18. “If you don’t have a competitive
advantage, don’t compete.”
Jack Welch
19. “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people
aren't used to an environment where
excellence is expected.”
Steve Jobs
20. "Unless a man undertakes more than he
possibly can do, he will never do all that
he can."
Henry Drummond
21. “The difference between the impossible
and the possible lies in a man's
determination.”
Tommy Lasorda
22. “You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than
anyone else.”
Albert Einstein
23. "However beautiful the strategy, you
should occasionally look at the results. "
Winston Churchill
24. “Nothing can stop the man with the right
mental attitude from achieving his goal,
nothing can help the man with the wrong
attitude.”
Jefferson
25. "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
26. “If you're interested, you'll do what's
convenient. If you're committed, you'll
do whatever it takes.”
John Assaraf
27. “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, founder of Atari and Chuck E.
Cheese's
73. "The best way to predict the future is to
invent it.”
Alan Kay, Computer Scientist
74. “I know the price of success: dedication,
hard work and an unremitting devotion
to the things you want to see happen.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
75. "Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as
survival, but that's exactly what it is.”
Anita Roddick - Founder Body Shop
76. "It is easier to go down a hill than up, but
the view is from the top.”
Arnold Bennett
77. “You shouldn’t focus on why you can’t do
something, which is what most people
do. You should focus on why perhaps you
can."
Steve Case AOL
78. "Nothing will ever be attempted if all
possible objections must first be
overcome."
Samuel Johnson
79. " The more I want to get something
done, the less I call it work.”
Richard Bach
80. “Do not go where the path may lead, go
instead where there is no path and leave
a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
81. “I do not think there is any other quality
so essential to success of any kind as the
quality of perseverance. It overcomes
almost everything, even nature.”
Rockerfeller
86. "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, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics
87. "I had to make my own living and my own
opportunity! But I made it! Don't sit down
and wait for the opportunities to come.
Get up and make them!"
Madam C.J. Walker, creator of a popular line of
African-American hair care products and
America's first black female millionaire
95. "It's not whether you get knocked down,
it's whether you get up."
Vince Lombardi
96. “Successful and unsuccessful people do
not vary greatly in their abilities. They
vary in their desires to reach their
potential.”
Maxwell
97. “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, founder of Mrs. Fields Cookies
98. “If you have an urge to build something
that could change the world, don’t focus
on the money, but the legacy you’ll leave
behind.”
Alexander Tamas
99. “I could not wait for success, so I went
ahead without it.”
Jonathan Winters
100. “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss,
you'll land among the stars.”
Les Brown
101. “When I want to think, I sit. When I want
to change, I act.”
Japanese Proverb
102. “I have failed over and over and over
again in my life and that is why I
succeed.” Michael Jordan
103. “You don't have to be great to start, but
you have to start to be great”
Joe Sarah
104. “Never look back unless you are planning
to go that way”
Henry David Thoreau
105. “Go for it now. The future is promised to no
one”
Wayne Dyer
106. “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
121. Advice for every pitch
situation a modern day
entrepreneur will encounter
Whether you're pitching for
funding, the media, or to
potential customers and
partners, to survive and
succeed as an entrepreneur,
you have to know how to
deliver a high-impact
pitch. Here's the Pitch reveals
powerful proven techniques
to get your audience to take
the action you want.
You'll learn the same
strategies and tactics that
have been used by
entrepreneurs to raise
millions of dollars, secure
partnerships, and win big
sales contracts.
122. "If you set your goals ridiculously high
and it’s a failure, you will fail above
everyone else’s success."
James Cameron
123. "In a startup, things seem great one
moment and hopeless the next. And by
next, I mean a couple hours later. "
Paul Graham
124. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to
excel are the things that endure. These
qualities are so much more important
than the events that occur.
Vince Lombardi
125. We believed in ourselves all year. That’s the
position you want to be in.
Eli Manning
126. You have to play this game like somebody just
hit your mother with a two-by-four.
Dan Birdwell
127. If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?
Joe Namath