Favourite quote collections from successful entrepreneurs

Here is a collection of quotes from successful entrepreneurs and thought leaders.  I have found them to be inspirational and I hope you do too.  Also please subscribe to this feed for updates as I add more quotes to the collection.  I have blogged about some of my favourites on this site as well – see my other posts.

 

1- From Sir Richard Branson – My Top 10 quotes on dreams

The story of Virgin is a story of big dreams. The odds have been stacked against us along the way, but by not limiting ourselves to what have been told to be true, we have been able to make the impossible possible.

We should all dream, and encourage others to do so too. Dreaming is one of humanity’s greatest gifts. On that note, here are my top 10 quotes on dreams…

http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/my-top-10-quotes-on-dreams

2- Wherever you go, there you are.  Attributed to Mark Twain (not definite)

3- You do not know the answer until you ask the question!Attributed to Mark Twain (not definite)

4- “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust

5- “You become what you think about.” – Napoleon Hill

6- “Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.” – Sigmund Freud

7- “You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.” – Zig Ziglar

8- “You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.” – Zig Ziglar

9-“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” – Andy Warhol

10-“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” – Leo Tolstoy

11- Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. Dale Carnegie-

12-“A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.” – Paul Klee

13-“I want to know God’s thoughts… the rest are details.” Albert Einstein

14-“We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.” – Bob Ross

15-“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” – Emile Zola

16-“My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.” – Marcel Proust

17-“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.” Simone Well

18-“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” Aesop

19- “Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.” Simone Well

20-“Think before you speak. Read before you think.” – Fran Lebowitz

21- “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi-

22- “May you live every day of your life.” – Jonathan Swift

23- “The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. Benjamin Disraeli

24- “One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.” ~Sophocles

25- “Action expresses priorities.” – Mohandas K. Gandhi

26- “You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.” – Edwin Louis Cole

27- Take the letters that make up the word LISTEN and rearrange them so that they spell out SILENT.- Dr. Wayne Dyer

28-“To do nothing is often my most profitable way.” – Virginia Woolf

29- “Well done is better than well said.” – Benjamin Franklin –

30 – “Words without experience are meaningless.” – Vladimir Nabokov –

31 – “The artist is always beginning.” – Ezra Pound

32- It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.” – Thomas Jefferson

33- “Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.” ― Rumi

34- “Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.” – Henry Miller

35- “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll

36- “No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you’ve come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.” ― Madonna

37- “Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.” ― Janis Joplin

38- “If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.” ― Katharine Hepburn

39- “Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you.” – Annie Dillard 

40- “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” – Stephen King 

41- “Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures.” – Joseph Campbell