Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurs: Read This Whenever You Feel Like Giving Up 15 Oct'15 | By Mitchell Harper Article Source FOLLOW US FOLLOW US Added to Saved Stories in Login VIEW SAVED STORIES Here are 58 powerful quotes that have kept me focused and moving forward as an entrepreneur since 2001: “The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it” — Michaelangelo “The biggest challenge you have is to challenge your own self-doubt and your laziness. It is your self-doubt and your laziness that define and limit who you are. If you want to change what you are you must take on your self-doubt and your laziness” — Robert Kiyosaki “Your job as an executive is to edit, not write. It’s OK to write once in a while but if you do it often there’s a fundamental problem with the team. Every time you do something ask if you’re writing or editing and get in the mode of editing” — Jack Dorsey “The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life” — Robert Kiyosaki “You’re either an entrepreneur, artist or manager. Spend most of your time in that role and you’ll be fulfilled” “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week” — George Patton “Don’t focus on the victory, focus on the task” — Coach Erik Spoelstra “Dreamers dream dreams and rich people create plans and build bridges to their dreams”- Robert Kiyosaki “Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth): Make the growth choice a dozen times a day” — Abraham Maslow “Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great” — John D Rockefeller “It’s a great strength to live knowing that if you lost every material possession, you would still have a life worth living” “If you don’t believe in yourself, you don’t take massive action. Instead, you take small action which validates that in fact, you weren’t good enough to achieve something huge.” “The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it” — Jordan Belfort “The neutralizer to fear is self belief” — Mark Bouris “It’s never too late to reinvent yourself for the next chapter” “One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you” — Jeff Bezos “Age is not based on chronology, but psychology” — Tony Robbins “See it as it is, not worse than it is just so you have a reason not to try” — Tony Robbins “It’s not what we get that makes us happy, it’s who we become” — Tony Robbins “Live deliberately” — Scott Harris “Do what no one else does… follow through” “80% of success is mental, 20% is the how” — Scott Harris “If you keep moving in the right direction you’ll get your dream or something better” “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there” “You feel what you’re focused on” — Tony Robbins “Some day your life will flash before your eyes — make sure it’s worth watching” “I accept myself unconditionally, right now” — Louise Hay “The secret to living is giving” — Tony Robbins “When you believe it, it becomes self fulfilling” — Tony Robbins “Always have something to look forward to” — Tony Robbins “Progress equals happiness” — Tony Robbins “Time is the capital of your life, so spend it wisely” — Tony Robbins “The how will show up after the commitment to the what” — Tony Robbins “If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it” — John C Maxwell “Passion is the bridge between goals and accomplishment”- Jim Rohn “In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it” — Dr Phil “You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideals come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an ideal next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.” — Warren Buffett “The joy is in creating, not maintaining” — Vince Lombardi “People who experience negative or stressful emotions on an ongoing basis are less healthy and live shorter lives” — Tony Robbins “I make it a personal rule never to do anything that I don’t really care about. It is surprising how much this cuts out” — Richard Koch “It’s through our expenses that we become richer or poorer, regardless of how much money we make” — Robert Kiyosaki “If a man will devote his time to securing facts in an impartial, objective way, his worries will usually evaporate in the light of knowledge” — Herbert E. Hawkes “The more communities in which you are an active participant, the more likely it is that you’ll be happy” — Ted Leonsis “Power begins with your own self perception” — Siimon Reynolds “All of the answers to your problems are outside your comfort zone” — Keith Cunningham “The only way you grow is by being uncomfortable” — Scott Harris “You can’t sit at the table of success for too long or you’ll feel bored and dead” — Tony Robbins “It doesn’t matter what you achieve, if you don’t keep growing you’ll feel dead”- Tony Robbins “To influence yourself, you have to ask better questions” — Tony Robbins “Unsuccessful people in life are mood dominated — “I don’t feel like working today” — Siimon Reynolds “If you’re bored with life, if you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things — you don’t have enough goals” — Lou Holtz Like this post? Great! Follow me on Twitter @mitchellharper.
