60 Be Your Own Boss Quotes to Discover Your Inner Entrepreneur

The thought of being your own boss excites everyone who is living with a steady and routine job.  Something different than boring 9-to-5 and have flexible work hours, something that doesn’t involve answering to a higher-up or checking in each time you want to go astray from a predetermined process. Escaping from corporate bureaucracy and adopt self driven innovative ways of doing work. Does all this excite you?  Do you want to be your own boss? Be better than what you’re currently doing? Self-employment may be a wonderful step to finding a fulfilling career. Here are inspiring “be your own boss quotes” to motivate you to discover your inner entrepreneur.

Be Your Own Boss Quotes

1. “Your skills and passion mingle when you be your own boss.” ~ Invajy

2. “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” ~ Chris Grosser

3. “You can control your decisions, earnings and work hours by being your own boss.” ~ Invajy

4. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” ~ Farrah Gray

5. “Sitting in your office and just thinking that you would love to be your own boss won’t make you an entrepreneur. You need to take that first step.” ~ Invajy

1. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” ~ Walt Disney
2. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
3. “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.” ~ Napoleon Hill
4. “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
5. “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” ~ Steve Jobs

Being Your Own Boss Quotes

11. “I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.” ~ Jeff Bezos
12. “Life is a flash of lighting in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.” ~ B. Alan Wallace
13. “What is not started will never get finished” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
14. “Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.” ~ Biz Stone
15. “Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life.” ~ Michael LeBoeuf
16. “Business opportunities are like buses: there’s always another one coming.” ~ Richard Branson
17. “Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.” ~ John Maxwell
18. “When you cease to dream you cease to live.” ~ Malcolm Forbes
19. “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” ~ Elon Musk
20. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” ~ Jim Rohn

Motivational Entrepreneur Quotes

21. “Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.” ~ Tim Ferriss
22. “Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.” ~ Robert Collier
23. “People capable of making enough money to never work again are the same people who will never quit working.” ~ Chris Dixon
24. “Don’t spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.” ~ Michael Dell
25. “You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.” ~ Mike Murdock
26. By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence. ~ Michael J. Gelb
27. “If you don’t program yourself, life will program you!” ~ Les Brown
28. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” ~ Albert Einstein
29. “There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” ~ Denis Waitley
30. “A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.” ~ Peter Marshall

Be Your Own Boss Quotes

31. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” ~ Albert Einstein
32. “What is it that you like doing? If you don’t like it, get out of it, because you’ll be lousy at it. You don’t have to stay with a job for the rest of your life, because if you don’t like it you’ll never be successful in it.” ~ Lee Iacocca
33. “Choose a job that you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” ~ Confucius
34. “Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.” ~ Seth Godin
35. “Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
36. “Simply making consistent investments in our self-education and knowledge banks pays major dividends throughout our lives.” ~ Jim Rohn
37. “And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” ~ Paulo Coelho
38. “The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do.” ~ Booker T. Washington
39. “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
40. “There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long-range risks of comfortable inaction.” ~ John F. Kennedy

Be Your Boss Quotes

41. “I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
42. “Winners don’t do different things , they do things differently” ~ Shiv Khera
43. “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
44. “If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” ~ Tony Robbins
45. “You will never leave where you are, until you decide where you’d rather be.” ~ Dexter Yager
46. “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
47. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” ~ Mark Twain
48. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” ~ Steve Jobs
49. “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” ~ Michael Jordan
50. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” ~ Wayne Gretzky

Quotes about Being Your Own Boss

51. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” ~ Peter Drucker
52. “Winners never quit and quitters never win.” ~ Vince Lombardi
53. “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
54. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ~ Mark Twain
55. “You need to battle with fear of failure to achieve your goals in life.” ~ Invajy

56. “There is only one success- to be able to spend your life in your own way.” ~  Christopher Morley
57. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” ~ Robert F. Kennedy
58. “The difference between setting a goal and achieving it is in having a good plan and working it.” ~ Les Brown
59. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” ~ Paulo Coelho
60. “I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it.” ~ Michael Jordan

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