20 Memorable Entrepreneurship Quotes
Written by Hubert Bennett Thursday, February 23 2012
Quotes:Inspiration When You Need It Most
If you place a magnifying glass to the word "entrepreneurship", you will find next to it obstacles and opportunities. As an entrepreneur, it helps to understand and appreciate the underlying connection between obstacles, opportunities, and entrepreneurship.
Below are words that speak to this connection:
1. "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
2. "Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming."
- Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Enterprises
3. "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
4. "The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity."
-Peter F. Drucker
5. "You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment."
– Les Brown
6. "What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better."
- Wendell Phillips
7. "We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve."
– Maxwell Maltz
8. "The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are."
– John Burroughs
9. "I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying."
– Michael Jordan
10. "The entrepreneur in us sees opportunities everywhere we look, but many people see only problems everywhere they look. The entrepreneur in us is more concerned with discriminating between opportunities than he or she is with failing to see the opportunities "
- Michael Gerber, author, entrepreneur
11. "Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."
-Winston Churchill
12. "To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities."
-Bruce Lee
13. "Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed."
-Lily Tomlin
14. "We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
-Lee Iacocca
15. "A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties."
-Harry S. Truman
16. "You're never guaranteed about next year. People ask what you think of next season, you have to seize the opportunities when they're in front of you."
-Brett Favre
17. "It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities. "
-Eric Hoffer
18. "Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities. "
-Ralph Marston
19. "Wise men make more opportunities than they find."
-Francis Bacon
20. "The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you."
-Doug Coupland
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