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Top 15 quotes by Jack Ma to inspire the entrepreneur in you

As an aspiring entrepreneur, Jack Ma should definitely be on your list of entrepreneurs to gain inspiration from.

Ma Yun better known as Jack Ma, is the founder and chairperson of one of the most successful e-commerce companies, Alibaba, which had recently been labelled as more successful than Walmart in terms of business. As an aspiring entrepreneur, he should definitely be on your list of entrepreneurs to gain inspiration from.

Listed below are a few quotes by him to help you through your entrepreneurial journey:

The opportunities that everyone cannot see are real opportunities.

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Hire the person best suited to the job, not the most talented. This can be a very painful lesson. There’s no point putting in a Boeing jet engine when you need to run a tractor.

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Never deceive others, in business or in life. In 1995, I was deceived by four companies — four companies that are now closed. A company cannot go far by deceit.

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We are never in lack of money. We lack people with dreams, who can die for those dreams.

If you don’t give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the greatest failure.

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When you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.

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If we are a good team and know what we want to do, one of us can defeat ten of them.

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You should learn from your competitor but never copy. Copy and you die.

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A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can’t.

The opportunity lies in the place where the complaints are.

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You’ve to make consumers smart. An e-commerce portal doesn’t sell a product at cheaper rates, instead, an offline shop sells it at a costlier price.

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If you’re still poor at 35, you deserve it.

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I call myself a blind man riding on a blind tiger.

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Never ever compete on prices, instead compete on services and innovation.

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It’s very difficult to know the outside world, but you know yourself. You know your need and what you want. If I know myself better, I can change myself to meet the outside world.

12 quotes by the Microsoft founder which makes him the one entrepreneur you should look up to

Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, is probably the smartest entrepreneur ever.

Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, is probably the smartest entrepreneur ever. He is also a man to be looked up to in every aspect because he’s given the world some great inventions and entrepreneurship goals. Apart from being a successful business, his work in the philanthropy department along with his wife is commendable too. His CEO blog, Gates Notes, is spectacular as it disseminates very vital information pertaining to the field for all budding entrepreneurs and will help you learn a variety of things other than just business.

Here are few quotes by Bill Gates which makes him a superstar:

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.

Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping – they called it opportunity.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

15 quotes which will motivate you to follow your dreams

You’re doing something you really love to.

Often in life, we are confused between following our dreams and fulfilling the duties imposed on us by the society. Amidst all the existing chaos, people forget to actually live their lives. Following your passion is a really good option as you’ll be content about the fact that you’re doing something you really love to.

Here are some quotes which will motivate you to follow your dreams:

1. Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon. –Paul Brandt

2. You don’t get in life what you want; you get in life what you are. –Les Brown

3. If your dream doesn’t scare you, it isn’t big enough. –Anonymous

4. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. –C. S. Lewis

5. If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary. -Jim Rohn

6. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ―Swami Vivekananda

7. Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don’t, who will? –Jon Bon Jovi

8. You miss 100% of the shots you didn’t take. –Michael Scott

9. There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why… I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? -Robert Kennedy

10. Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ―Winston Churchill

11. If you want something you have never had, you have to do something you have never done. -Thomas Jefferson

12. Everything you can imagine is real. –Pablo Picaso

13. If you have a heartbeat, there’s still time for your dreams. –Sean Stephenson

14. Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

15. Dreams don’t work unless you do. –Anonymous

75 motivational quotes for entrepreneurs

Sometimes a little piece of advice or wisdom from a brilliant mind can help you motor through even the most difficult of times.

15 inspirational quotes every entrepreneur must abide by

An entrepreneur often seeks advice and who better than the most influential entrepreneurs who have lived it all.

An entrepreneur often seeks advice and who better than the most influential entrepreneurs who have lived it all. Here are a few inspirational quotes by famous people which is completely relevant to budding entrepreneurs:

1. “You are to set your own value, communicate that value to the world, and then not settle for less. Sound daunting? That’s just because it takes you out of your comfort zone. You have got to stop being an obstacle on your own path to wealth and security and happiness. You must understand that valuing yourself is well within your control.” -Suze Orman, Financial Advisor and Author

2. “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” –Steve Jobs, Co-Founder of Apple

3. “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.” -Michelangelo, Artist

4. “Winners never quit and quitters never win.” -Vince Lombardi, Famed Football Coach

5. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender, it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” -Stephen Covey, Author and Businessman

6. “Innovation is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.” -Watts Humprey, Father of Software Quality

7. “We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.” -Jeff Bezos, Founder of Amazon

8. “Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.” -Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks

9. “If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.” -Mark Zuckerberg, Founder of Facebook

10. “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” -Wayne Gretzky, NHL Hall of Famer

11. “Failure is just a resting place. It is an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” -Henry Ford, Founder of Ford Automobiles

12. “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” -Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Group

13. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” -Socrates, Greek Philosopher

14. “Watch, listen, and learn. You can’t know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.” -Donald Trump, Chairman of The Trump Organization

15. “If Plan A doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters.” -Claire Cook, Author

3 Ways to keep the self-confidence alive

As human beings, we constantly doubt our next move and seek validation from other people or the universe in form of a sign

As human beings, we constantly doubt our next move and seek validation from other people or the universe in form of a sign. When one is low on self-confidence, all s/he needs is motivation from the common things around for a morale boost.

For an entrepreneur, dampened spirits seems like a recurring phase. An entrepreneur is constantly under a lot of stress and most of it is distress. Long hours spent on strategising, marketing and pitching to VCs summarises an entrepreneur’s life. Risk-taking can be physically and mentally taxing which is why an entrepreneur needs more inspiration than anyone else. There are many points in one’s career where self-doubt takes over self-confidence. In those points, one needs energize internally and keep going. It may be tough but it is absolutely necessary.

Here are three ways in which an entrepreneur can believe in himself when the world ceases to:

1. Trust the prospects

The world might believe your idea is stupid, but you think you can work it out, you probably can. All you need is faith and confidence in your skills and potential to make it happen. If big and successful entrepreneurs doubted themselves, no innovation would have ever taken place. We would be living in a world without technology or scientific advancements. The successful ones always go out there and make it happen. All successful entrepreneurs were avant-garde and vanguard which is why they could actually achieve what they wanted to.

Similarly, you need to be clear about what you want and test all the available resources that you’ll require to achieve it. Once you actually start working on it with a clear mind, you’ll realise you’re closer to achieving it than you thought.

2. Don’t doubt your potential

What you want to achieve might seem far-fetched and unconventional, sometimes even impossible, but not even for a moment should you doubt your capabilities. Trust your brain to work out a creative way to make your idea work and strategise around the idea with complete focus. Your innate talent and potential are the only things that’ll bail you out of gloomy days.

Albert Einstein failed 1000 ways before making the light bulb. If he doubted his capabilities or his idea, we’d be sitting in the dark. Instead, he chose to not give up until he reached his end goal.

3. Place confidence in your job

This might seem like a difficult thing to do but unless you’re completely focused and in love with what you do, success will not knock your door. Your core belief in yourself and the job you’re doing is crucial for achieving the target. As an entrepreneur, you should be aware that your job requires you to clock in long hours, undertake risks and take up responsibility of your venture and employees and be completely prepared for it.

Great entrepreneurs like Bill Gates, Dhirubhai Ambani, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg loved what they did and believe that their efforts would change the world.

Don’t let anybody or anything dampen your spirits because you know you’re capable of achieving whatever you want to. Try and be positive and confident always and you’ll succeed.