Entrepreneurship is not for the faint of heart. It’s a difficult and challenging road, but it can also be incredibly rewarding. Along the way, you’ll face plenty of obstacles and challenges, but you’ll also encounter some amazing people and experiences. As entrepreneurs, we often find ourselves looking for motivation and inspiration to keep pushing forward. That’s why I’ve compiled a list of funny quotes from some of the most successful entrepreneurs in history. These quotes will make you laugh out loud, but they’ll also remind you why you’re doing this tough thing called entrepreneurship in the first place.
The best funny quotes
1. I’m always in situations where you can’t be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway. — Tim Heidecker
2. It’s funny, for all it took was a broken heart and that alone was enough, enough for her to do everything she ever dreamed of. — Robert M. Drake
3. I wasn’t even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse. — Michael Bergin
4. I think I’m funny because my family, my siblings were funny. — Martin Short
5. People who talk too much are tiresome, especially those who are not informative, thought–provoking, or funny. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
6. Funny how we take it for granted that we know all there is to know about another person, just because we see them frequently or because of some strong emotional tie. — Robert Bloch, Psycho
7. Sukhvinder wished that she could be more like Krystal: funny and tough; impossible to intimidate; always coming out fighting. — J. K. Rowling
8. It’s like love making, the foreplay is the biggest part, the same thing as comedy. If you can frame your show in such a way that the funny jokes become funnier. — Tommy Chong
9. Because friendship is about laughing when the other person is joking to make you feel better. Even if you don’t find her joke all that funny. — Padma Venkatraman, A Time to Dance
10. Yeah, that’s funny, huh?…Something hurts you real bad and you get used to it. Like being hurt becomes part of who you are. — Walter Dean
11. Its funny but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to take it for granted? Its like they think it won’t ever change. — Nicholas Sparks
12. Kings and such are just as funny as politicians. — Theodore Roosevelt
13. I think it’s always funny when somebody thinks you’re going to do something super sexy and then you don’t. — Olivia Munn
14. That’s worst than gonerreha, man! — Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind of a Funny Story
15. In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian. — Sugar Ray Leonard
16. Funny how addiction was socially acceptable–even a status symbol–when it made people extroverts rather than introverts — Stacia Kane, City of Ghosts
17. The funny guy doesn’t get the girl until later in life. High school, college, everyone still wants the brooding, dangerous guy you shouldn’t have. — Will Ferrell
18. I don’t really necessarily think I’m a funny guy, but I like the opportunity to take on something that I don’t feel I’m the best at doing. — Seann William Scott
19. When a dramatic actor does a funny film, people are like, ‘Wonderful! I didn’t know he was funny!’ But when it flips, people can get really thrown by it. — Will Ferrell
20. But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it’s funny enough. — Sarah Silverman
21. I think people are surprised to learn that I’m pretty goofy and pretty funny. — Susan Egan
22. Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it’s a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed. — Neil Gaiman
23. It’s such a silly little thing, the heart. — Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind of a Funny Story
24. I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary. — R. L. Stine
25. I don’t just randomly kill people… I kill people when it’s funny. — Neil Gaiman
26. I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously. — Rachel Weisz
27. A funny yet interesting read, Will Self knowa his stuff and must do a lot of deep research. — Will Self, Liver: A Fictional Organ With a Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes
28. Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny. — Stephen Hawking
29. I think all good drama is funny. All the best drama is ultimately very funny. Life is funny. You can’t have any honest treatise on life without bumping into some humor. — Thomas Jane
30. Life is a funny thing, the minute you think you’ve got everything figured out something comes along and turns it all upside down. — Zayn Malik
31. People that want it to just be funny should not despair, because there is so much true crazy comedy coming up. — Mary Steenburgen
32. You’ll see a lot of funny stuff, you’ll see a lot of daddy knows best stuff, you’ll see a lot of me and my wife trying to hold the family together. — Russell Simmons
33. Death is a funny thing. Not funny haha, like a Woody Allen movie, but funny strange, like a Woody Allen marriage. — Norm Macdonald
34. When you’re small, you either are funny, or you get beat up a lot. — Tim Conway
35. I wanted to be funny. And I’m always acknowledged for my pranks and jokes nowadays. — Steve Wozniak
36. One matter Englishmen don’t think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humour. — Marshall McLuhan
37. When I was a kid I had this funny blonde hair and everyone called me ‘Chick’ because I looked like Tweety Bird. — Nicky Hilton
38. If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say it at all. And if you do have to say it, make it really funny so I can screenshot it and save it for later. — Sabrina Carpenter
39. It’s funny, the moment you dread the most, seeing yourself bald, is actually not such a bad moment at all. — Sylvie Meis
40. We never really tried to shock for shock’s sake on ‘Family Guy’. If something was horribly offensive and shocking, we would put it in if it was also hysterically funny. — Seth MacFarlane
41. In my experience, it’s not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows. — Michael Mandelbaum
42. I’ve always been the goofy kid. Growing up, I always enjoyed the comedic aspect of relating to women. Even on camera, it was always the funny take on it. — Will Smith
43. There’s a lot more to me than just funny. — Steve Harvey
44. Yo Mama’s like mustard, she spreads easy. — Oliver Oliver Reed, 155 World’s Funniest Yo Mama Dirty Jokes: Yo Mama Funny, Dirty, Filthy Joke Book For Adults–Uncensored edition
45. Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works. — Steve Jobs
46. All I want to do is write songs about funny characters I made up. — Wes Borland
47. I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it’s like this–the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man. — Oliver Platt
48. He said it twice because he had never said it before, and it sounded funny. — A.A. Milne, Winnie–the–Pooh
49. The story of money is very funny. Others burn what we earn. Why not give as we live, so the world will cry when we die. — RVM
50. I wanted to be funny. And I’m always acknowledged for my pranks and jokes nowadays. — Steve Wozniak
Conclusion
Laughter is the best medicine, and these funny quotes are a great way to get a dose of it! Whether you’re looking for a bit of levity or a chuckle, these quotes are sure to bring a smile to your face. So, go ahead and read a few of these funny quotes, and don’t forget to share them with your friends!