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.

1. It’s funny: I’ve been very successful and done a lot of films, and I don’t really have an agent–I don’t really pursue jobs, I let people come to me. — Rick Baker

2. I’m an unorthodox type of guy, a funny guy–at least I think I’m funny. And one of the things I like to do is come up with nicknames for myself. — Shaquille O’Neal

3. It’s funny; as I get older I’m reverting to my roots–I want to plant stuff. — Melissa Mccarthy

4. Goldie Hawn is funny sexy beautiful talented intelligent warm and consistently sunny. Other than that she doesn’t impress me at all. — Neil Simon

5. He liked three kinds of films: pretty bathing girls with bare legs; policemen or cowboys and an industrious shooting of revolvers; and funny fat men who ate spaghetti. — Sinclair Lewis

6. It’s funny whom we end up choosing to love and who ends up choosing to love us. It’s rarely the people we think it should be. — Robin Jones Gunn, Gardenias for Breakfast

7. So often, I read scripts and am like, ‘This would never happen in real life. It’s not trying to be funny. It’s trying to be serious.’ — Shailene Woodley

8. Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real. — Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind of a Funny Story

9. Being sexy is kind of funny to me. — Reba Mcentire

10. I’m blonde and tanned and normal–sized! I’m sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I’m nice–and I like to eat. — Paris Hilton

11. We aren’t just defined by who we are, but by who are friends are. It’s funny that we put so much importance on something that wont mean shit once we graduate. — Shaun David Hutchinson

12. When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria–not necessarily by choice–but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren’t there. — Zach Galifianakis

13. It’s funny what a few no–hitters do for a body. — Satchel Paige

14. There are just so many funny kids and teenagers. They’re just not aware of how funny they are. — Vanessa Bayer

15. You know it’s funny, when it rains it pours they got money for wars, but can’t feed the poor. — Tupac Shakur

16. Deeply funny musings and adventures elevate Paul Rudnick to the highest level of American comedy writing. — Steve Martin

17. The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes. — Nikolai Gogol

18. 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

19. It’s funny how we feel so much but we don’t say a word, we’re screaming inside but we can’t be heard. — Wiz Khalifa

20. Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense. — Tippi Hedren

21. So funny how i was So desperate triiying to reach to this point …and now i have nothing to said im symple out of words, , , — mel rojas

22. I had a very funny family. — Zach Braff

23. 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

24. When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who’d get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction. — Scott Thompson

25. After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn’t funny anymore. — Yakov Smirnoff

26. Funny how Underhill could get along with almost anyone, tuning down his manias to whatever the traffic would bear. — Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky

27. I’m somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition. — Natasha Lyonne

28. It’s funny isn’t it? People claim to know what love is––yet the minute they’re given the opportunity to prove it––they bail. — Rachel Van Dyken, Toxic

29. I watch things that are fun, or funny, or interesting. — Martha Plimpton

30. –if you could describe my son in 3 words, what would you say?–Sweet. Cute. Funny.–That could be a description of a puppy she says dryly. — Mary Papas, 14 Twisted Tales To Enthrall

31. Most of my show is true; like, 90% of everything I say on stage is true. I just have to find the way to make it funny–that’s the difficult thing. — Trevor Noah

32. In high school, I was too shy to perform. It’s one thing to get laughs from your family, to be funny at parties and in class. It’s another thing to get up on the stage. — Michael Keaton

33. Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don’t get it. — Rob Lowe

34. I’m not one to sit here and judge here. But I think it’s funny that the people that condemn the adult industry the most are the ones consuming the product the most. — Sasha Grey

35. I’m not melancholy; I’m a happy–go–lucky person, kind of silly. I like funny things. I have a lot of energy. I tend to like music that’s mellow, though. — Norah Jones

36. The Simpsons are ugly–looking, and they should be. That’s what works. That’s one of the things that’s funny. — Seth Macfarlane

37. Politicians… talk in generalities and lies, and I think they’ve caused all our grief. They’re so awful, they’re really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics. — Paul Lynde

38. Something funny — Taryn Chatfield

39. I really think that sex always looks kind of funny in a movie. — William Friedkin

40. My dad is funny in his own way, and so is my brother, but in terms of legitimately making a lot of people laugh, that’s my mom. I inherit my sense of comedy from her. — Mindy Kaling

41. It’s a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more–that is people are much more aware of it than they were in 1954, when I was doing my research. — Walter Lord

42. It is funny what a year can do. — Victor Cruz

43. A joke is a way to say, ‘I’m going to do something funny now. If I don’t get a laugh at the end, I’m a failure.’ — Penn Jillette

44. There are a lot of funny things that happen in one’s life. — Pierce Brosnan

45. It’s funny, in literature no one ever goes to the lavatory. — Tom Baker

46. You know, what’s funny to one person is not at all to someone else. — Steve Carell

47. It’s a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain. — Rick Baker

48. If you play it straight it’s funny–the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious. — Tom Hiddleston

49. I blend memories. I blend them into one that’s funny. I exaggerate to clarify. — Tim Allen

50. I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny. — Paula Danziger

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!