Entrepreneurship is not an easy route and it’s not for everyone. Being a female entrepreneur means that you are ready to deal with challenges, struggles, and sometimes failure.
Starting a company or business surely has its ups and downs, but one thing that can help you get through is hearing from those who have also been in your shoes at one time.
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For the female who believes the entrepreneurial path is best suited for her, we say go for it. A support system is a must-have to help you stay motivated and successful on your career path.
Here are 21 inspiring quotes from successful entrepreneurs that every budding female entrepreneur should know by heart.
1. “Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t so you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t.” Warren G. Tracy
2. “My motto in life is ‘Take risks;’ you don’t have a voice if you don’t. You have to venture outside your boundaries. That’s what life’s all about.” Kelly Wearstler
3. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” Albert Einstein
4. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” Joshua Marine
5. “Don’t wait for perfection. Life isn’t perfect. Do the best you can and ship. Real people ship, and then they test and then they ship again. Then you wake up one day and you have something insanely great.” –Guy Kawasaki
6. “Business opportunities are like buses: there’s always another one coming.” -Richard Branson
7. “Any time is a good time to start a company.” -Ron Conway
8. “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve. Do small things in a great way.” – – Napoleon Hills
9. “If you want to build a successful business, make sure you have three things—a big market opportunity, great people, and more than enough capital.”-Richard Harroch
10. “Winners never quit and quitters never win.” -Vince Lombardi
11. “Everyone has an idea, but it’s really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you with the idea.” -Jack Dorsey
12. 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, and be one of the exceptions.” –Steve Case
13. “It’s not about money or connections. It’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone when it comes to your business. And if it fails, you learn from what happened and do a better job next time.”- Mark Cuban
14. “Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.” -Jack Welch
15. “You must be very patient, very persistent. The world isn’t going to shower gold coins on you just because you have a good idea. You’re going to have to work like crazy to bring that idea to the attention of people. They’re not going to buy it unless they know about it.” -Herb Kelleher
16. “Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night.” -Marian Wright Edelman
17. “You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big, and live big.” –Andrew Carnegie
18. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” – Bill Gates
19. “What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.” -Simon Sinek
20. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. –Winston Churchill
21. “Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself.” – Oprah Winfrey
