50 Mindset Quotes for Entrepreneurial Women Who Want to do Business Differently

As an entrepreneur, we often feel as though we’re alone through this process. At times you may think that it’s all too hard and it would be easier to just quit the whole entrepreneur thing and get a job with a secure paycheck. And then some days you’re over the moon with your own business.

Through these tough times, it’s important to look around us at the people who have embraced entrepreneurship before us. Take a moment to read these 50 mindset quotes to inspire you and motivate you, no matter where you are in business.

Positive Mindset

“You don’t have to control your thoughts, you just have to stop letting them control you.” – Dan Millman

“Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.” – Roy T. Bennett

“Keep my word positive. Words become my behaviours. Keep my behaviours positive. Behaviours become my habits. Keep my habits positive. Habits become my values. Keep my values positive. Values become my destiny.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“In order to carry a positive action, we must develop here a positive vision.” – Dalai Lama

“Positive thinking is a valuable tool that can help you overcome obstacles, deal with pain, and reach new goals.” – Amy Morin

Money Mindset

“Be more persistent than your ego, which wants to believe that you’re right in being pissed off. Your ego wants to hold the grudge, but do you want to be right or rich?” – Denise Duffield-Thomas

“You don’t have to be like most people around you, because most people never become truly rich and wealthy.” – Manoj Arora

“More people should learn to tell their dollars where to go instead of asking them where they went.” – Roger Babson

“People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.” -Joan Rivers

”You don’t get paid by the hour. You get paid by the value you bring to the hour. – Jim Rohn”

Growth Mindset

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein

“A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it.” – Ray Davis

“All things are difficult before they are easy.” Thomas Fuller

“Improve by 1% a day, and in just 70 days, you’re twice as good.” – Alan Weiss

“You have not failed unless you have quit trying.” – Gordon B. Hinckley

Success Mindset

“Here’s the thing: nobody is going to give you permission to be successful, so stop waiting for external validation.” – Denise Duffield-Thomas

“My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed that week. If we didn’t have anything, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying.” -Sara Blakely

“History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.” – B.C. Forbes

“I failed my way to success.” – Thomas Edison

“I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” – Estee Lauder

Self-Trust Mindset

“People respond well to those that are sure of what they want.” – Anna Wintour

“Be brave and be patient. Have faith in yourself; trust in the significance of your life and the purpose of your passion.” – Jillian Michaels

“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.” – Marie Curie

“I’m still a researcher. The best way to explain it is that I trusted myself deeply as a professional, but I did not have a lot of self-trust personally. When I started learning all of these things about the value and the importance of belonging, vulnerability, connection, self-kindness, and self-compassion, I trusted what I was learning – again, I know I’m a good researcher. When those things and wholeheartedness started to emerge with all these different properties, I knew I had to listen. I’d heard these messages before personally but I didn’t trust myself there.” – Brené Brown

“If family and society tell you its unfeminine, not really womanly, to be aggressive, to speak up, to have strong opinions, to take up space, then women won’t trust their own voice, because to be heard and to be influential, you’ve got to have a way to sing out with passion and love and self-trust – to sing out your song for everyone to hear.” – Elizabeth Lesser

Goal-Setting Mindset

“You can achieve anything you want in life if you have the courage to dream it, the intelligence to make a realistic plan, and the will to see that plan through to the end.” – Sidney A. Friedman

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”– Albert Einstein

“If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.”– Lou Holtz

“If a goal is worth having, it’s worth blocking out the time in your day-to-day life necessary to achieve it.”– Jill Koenig

“Decide whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.”– Amelia Earhart

Courageous Mindset

“Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.” – Arianna Huffington

“Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.” – Oprah Winfrey

“If you are facing a new challenge or being asked to do something that you have never done before don’t be afraid to step out. You have more capability than you think you do but you will never see it unless you place a demand on yourself for more.” – Joyce Meyer

“Don’t worry about failure. Worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” – Sherman Finesilver

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” ― Coco Chanel

Focused Mindset

“Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.” – Paulo Coelho

“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” – Alexander Graham Bell

“Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.” – Jack Canfield

“Instead of focusing on those circumstances that you cannot change – focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.” – Joy Page

“We each focus on what we’re going to buy, but that’s an incorrect focus. Focus instead on why you want to spend the money on this or that. What feeling in you does it satisfy?” – Suze Orman

Learning Mindset

“There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardour and attended with diligence.” – Abigail Adams

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty” – Henry Ford

“A learning curve is essential to growth” – Tammy Bjelland

“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.” – Winston Churchill

Entrepreneurial Mindset

“If we tried to think of a good idea, we wouldn’t have been able to think of a good idea. You just have to find the solution for a problem in your own life.” – Brian Chesky

“Selling is not a pushy, winner-takes-all, macho act. It is an empathy-led, process-driven, and knowledge-intensive discipline. Because, in the end, people buy from people.” – Subroto Bagchi

“When in doubt, bootstrap. Using your own personal resources is the easiest way to start a business. You don’t have to convince investors about the merits of your idea. You just have to convince yourself.” – Ryan Holmes

“Being a woman in business doesn’t come without challenges. My advice? Surround yourself with other supportive women that encourage you, share ideas, and get you motivated.” – Jessica Alba

“Some days you’re smiling and thinking you’re going to make this thing rock. Then the next day a pipe breaks and your costs look too high. You have to learn to keep your eyes on an ultimate goal. If you lose sight of that goal, you have to get out.” – Hamdi Ulukaya

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