99 inspiring quotes about entrepreneurship
Marketing changes on a daily basis.
New platforms, tools and strategies impact our ability to serve clients.
Global, national and local markets are diverse, yet they also have similarities.
The key is to develop the mindset to see these new opportunities by connecting the dots. This is how we grow our business, our careers and how we keep moving forward.
As you continue your pursuit of greatness, refresh your mind, spirit and intelligence with these quotes from awesome leaders.
Quotes on entrepreneurship
1. āSuccess isnāt about how much money you make, itās about the difference you make in peopleās lives.āāāāMichelle Obama
2. āIf people like you, theyāll listen to you. But if they trust you, theyāll do business with you.āāāāZig Ziglar
3. āSuccessful businesses are founded on needs.āāāāA.G. Gaston
4. āThere is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.āāāāOprah Winfrey
5. āThe truth is that entrepreneurship is more like a roller coaster ride than a cruise.āāāāVivek Wadhwa
6. āTo have a great idea, have a lot of them.āāāāThomas Edison
7. āFormal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.āāāāSir Richard Branson
8. āChase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.āāāāTony Hsieh
9. āEntrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a weekā.āāāLori Greiner
10. āI didnāt get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.āāāāEstee Lauder
11. āDone is better than perfect.āāāāSheryl Sandberg
12. āMove fast and break thingsā¦at the end of the day the goal of building something is to build something,Ā not toĀ not make mistakes.āāāāMark Zuckerberg
13. āAs a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every two hours and cried.āāāāBen Horowitz
14. āInnovation is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.āāāāWatts Humphrey
15. āIf Plan A doesnāt work, the alphabet has 25 more letters.āāāāClaire Cook
16. āThe best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.ā ā David Ogilvy
17. āIf people are doubting how far youāll go, go so far that you canāt hear them anymore.āāāāMichele Ruiz
18. āI hope the web can be a source of collaboration for others who are not part of an open community, to consider joining/supporting something that gives back to the world.āāāāJuliana Rotich
19. āIt is within everyoneās grasp to be a CEO.āāāāMartha Stewart
20. āDecidingĀ what not to doĀ is as important as deciding what to do.āāāāJessica Jackley
Quotes on marketing
21. āMarketing is no longer about the stuff that you make, but about the stories you tell.āāāāSeth Godin
22. āI do believe the modern sales leader has to be a marketer.āāāāMatt Gorniak
23. āPeople donāt share facts, they share emotions.āāāāOxford Unity Research
24. āYou canāt just ask customers what they want and then try to give it to them. By the time you get it built, theyāll want something new.āāāāSteve Jobs
25. āThe best marketing strategy ever: CAREāāāāGary Vaynerchuk
26. āThe internet has turned what used to be a controlled, one-way message into a real-time dialogue with millions.āāāāDanielle Sacks
27. āThe man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.āāāāThomas Jefferson
28. āThe best marketing of all is happy clients.āāāāSusan Stripling
29. āOur jobs as marketers are to understand how the customer wants to buy and help them do so.āāāāBryan Eisenberg
30. āMarketing takes a day to learn. Unfortunately, it takes a lifetime to master.āāāāPhil Kolter
Quotes on digital marketing
31. āIf your business is not on the internet, then your business will be out of business.āāāāBill Gates
32. āContent is the atomic particle of all digital marketing.āāāāRebecca Lieb
33. āThe truth of what people like is how they are responding to the content you are sharing on Instagram.āāāāSue B. Zimmerman
34. āAll one needs is a computer, a network connection, and a bright spark of initiative and creativity to join the economy.āāāāDon Tapscott
35. āA brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it isāāāit is what consumers tell each other it is.āāāāScott Cook
36. āTake a risk and keep testing, because what works today wonāt work tomorrow, but what worked yesterday may work again.āāāāAmrita Sahasrabudhe
37. āWe want to know what consumers are looking for, what their values are, and how can we meet their needs. Itās not just about Big Data; itās about translating that into the truth.āāāāGayle Fuguitt
38. āGoogle only loves you when everyone else loves you first.āāāāWendy Piersall
39. āWe have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain connections with much larger numbers of people.āāāāPierre Omidyar
40. āIn a way, the Web is like your Hollywood agent: It speaks for you whenever youāre not around to comment.āāāāChris Brogan & Julien Smith
Quotes on social media marketing
41. āThe future of business is social.āāāāBarry Libert
42. āSocial media is nothing but a set of technologies that enhance our social nature.āāāāLars Silberhauer
43. āBrands that ignore social mediaā¦will die. Itās that simple.āāāāJeff Ragovin
44. āRemarkable social media content and great sales copy are pretty much the sameāāāplain spoken words designed to focus on the needs of the reader, listener or viewer.āāāāBrian Clark
45. āContent is fire; social media is gasoline.āāāāJay Baer
46. āSocial media has caused one of the greatest cultural shifts weāve ever seen.āāāāMelanie Dodaro
47. āSocial media offers new opportunities to activate brand enthusiasm.āāāāStacy DeBroff
48. āWe donāt have a choice on whether we DO social media, the question is how well we DO it.āāāāErik Qualman
49. āA trusted referral influences people more than the best broadcast message. A trusted referral is the Holy Grail of advertising.āāāāMark Zuckerberg
50. āSocial media replaces nothing, but compliments everything.āāāāNeal Schaffer
Quotes on content marketing
51. āDonāt be afraid to get creative and experiment with your marketing.āāāāMike Volpe
52. āItās not the best content that wins, itās the best promoted content.āāāāAndy Crestodina
53. āThe best content in the world wonāt drive revenue if nobody sees it.āāāāRevenue Disruption
54. āIf content is king, then conversion is queen.āāāāJon Munsell
55. āIf it doesnāt sell, it isnāt creative.āāāāDavid Ogilvy
56. āGood content isnāt about storytelling. Itās about telling a true story well.āāāāAnn Handley
57. āGreat content is the best sales tool in the world.āāāāMarcus Sheridan
58. āContent is the reason search began in the first place.āāāāLee Odden
59. āBy publishing content that shows buyers you understand their problems and can show them how to solve them, you build credibility.āāāāArdath Albee
60. āHire people who create content by nature, not arm-twisting. You donāt want content creation to be a chore.āāāāMike Volpe
Quotes on search engine marketing (SEM)
61. āDonāt build links, build relationships.āāāāRand Fishkin
62. āMarketing without data is like driving with your eyes closed.āāāāDan Zarrella
63. āThe power of social media is that it forces necessary change.āāāāErik Qualman
64. āAn average product with great marketing will outperform an excellent product with no marketing.āāāEvan Carmichael
65. āYou can spend every penny you have on a website, but it will all be for nothing if nobody knows your site is there.āāāāMarc Ostrofsky
66. āThe objective is not to make your links appear natural; the objective is that your links are natural.āāāāMatt Cutts
67. āThe future of SEO is here: understanding and marketing to specific and defined audiences through search engines.āāāāAdam Audette
68. āA video can be a listing in a search engine.āāāāJerry Allocca
69. āIf it isnāt on Google, it doesnāt exist.ā Jimmy Wals
70. āIf youāre too generic or competitive, you wonāt rank. And even if you do rank, the traffic wonāt convert.āāāāDerek Gehl
Quotes on mobile marketing
71. āSmartphones are reinventing the connection between companies and their customers.āāāāRich Miner
72. āIf your plans donāt include mobile, your plans are not finished.āāāāWendy Clark
73. āMobile is not the future, it is the now. Meet your customers in the environment of their choice, not where it is convenient for you.āāāāCyndie Shaffstall
74. āThe way I like to put it is, the answer should always be mobile first. You should always put your best team and your best app on your mobile app.āāāāEric Schmidt
75. āI canāt overstate how mobile is changing how we interact with our consumers, we have to embrace these changes.āāāāJoel Anderson
76. āThe majority of internet usage will be done via a mobile device and for most people the mobile web will be their primary, if not their only, way of experiencing the internet.āāāāPeter Rojas
77. āMobile is no longer about what you can do on your cell phone. Mobile is all about doing more, all of the time.āāāāMitch Joel
78. āIn todayās modern world, people are either asleep or connected.āāāāJanice H. Reinold
79. āPeople interact with their phones very differently than they do with their PCs, and I think that when you design from the ground up with mobile in mind, you create a very different product than going the other way.āāāāKevin Systrom
80. āThe future of mobile and speciļ¬cally mobile marketing is creating solutions that customers actually want and need.āāāāGreg Hickman
Quotes on eCommerce marketing
81. āIn eCommerce, your prices have to be better because the consumer has to take a leap of faith in your product.āāāāAshton Kutcher
82. āWe will continue to see a convergence of the digital and physical world. Those who conquer that trend will be market leaders.āāāāJohn Phillips
83. āCommunications is at the heart of eCommerce and community.āāāāMeg Whitman
84. āIt isnāt just that eCommerce depends on express mail; thereās a sense in which eCommerce is express mail.āāāāMalcolm Gladwell
85. āThe only certainty is continued disruption.āāāāDenee Carrington
86. āOur āovernight successā took 1,000 days.āāāāBrian Chesky
87. āIf youāre competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.āāāāJeff Bezos
88. āPeople were doing business with one another through the Internet already, through bulletin boards. But on the Web, we could make it interactive, we could create an auction, we could create a real marketplace.āāāāPierre Omidyar
89. āYou canāt wait for customers to come to you. You have to figure out where they are, go there and drag them back to your store.āāāāPaul Graham
90. āLeadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of eCommerce.āāāāMichael Oxley
Quotes on global marketing
91. āSocial media creates communities, not markets.āāāāDon E. Schultz
92. āForget about competitors, just focus on your customers.āāāāJack Ma
93. āIf you can build a business up big enough, itās respectable.āāāāWill Rogers
94. āNothing works better than just improving your product.āāāāJoel Spolsky
95. āWe see growth in the United States. But also in China, Brazil, the U.K., and other markets around the world.āāāāMike Duke
96. āI am sure innovation will blossom around the world, given that the Internet and mobile platforms enable innovators anywhere in the world to reach a global market with ease.āāāāRoelof Botha
97. āAct local. Market global.āāāāNorm Bond
98. āIncreasingly, the mass marketing is turning into a mass of niches.āāāāChris Anderson
99. āThereās no locality on the webāāāevery market is a global market.āāāāEthan Zuckerman
Bonus: 10 quotes to make you jump out of bed before your alarm clock rings
1. āEither write something worth reading or do something worth writing about.āāāāBenjamin Franklin
2. āThere are three magic words that worked for all of us who have made it to the pinnacle and theyāll work for you: āJust Donāt Quitā.āāāāMark Yarnell
3. āThe only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.āāāāHarry Golden
4. āSuccessful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.āāāāBrian Tracy
5. āRisk comes from not knowing what youāre doing.āāāāWarren Buffett
6. āYou are one decision away from a totally different life.āāāāMark Batterson
7. āNothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.āāāāRalph Waldo Emerson
8. āBefore you can transform your wallet from poor to rich, youāve got to transform your spirit from poor to rich.āāāāRobert Kiyosaki
9. āA business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.āāāāHenry Ford
10.āDonāt quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.āāāāMuhammad Ali
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