When it comes to running a business, there’s a lot of wisdom out there to be gleaned from those who have come before. We’ve gathered some of our favorite quotes on entrepreneurship in this blog post, so you can start your day off with a little inspiration! Whether you’re just starting out or you’ve been in business for years, these quotes will remind you why you got into entrepreneurship in the first place and help keep you going when things get tough.

1. I’m not worried about making a certain type of music or sticking to one type of music. — Post Malone
2. ‘the last we heard of him was a picture postcard from Mazatlan, on the Pacific coast of Mexico, containing a message of two words: ”Hello–Goodbye!” and no address.’ — Tennessee Williams
3. And remember don’t high post when you’re far from home, and high posting when you’re all alone. — Mos Def
4. His eyes were the same colour as the sea in a postcard someone sends you when they love you, but not enough to stay. — Warsan Shire
5. What’s wrong with turning back the clock if the clock is wrong? We need not be slaves to our technologies — Neil Postman, How to Watch TV News
6. Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination. — Vin Scully
7. The particular creature we love is never God’s rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, the cult of humanity. — Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a un texto implícito
8. The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable. — Neil Postman
9. I’ve never seen a weirder group of people than at the post office. It looks like people are crawling out from under rocks to go to the post office. — Sebastian Maniscalco
10. If Michael, leader of God’s host When Heaven and Hell are met, Looked down on you from Heaven’s door–post He would his deeds forget. — William Butler Yeats
11. So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics? — Mark Poster
12. The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future. — Norman O. Brown
13. I sew his ears on from time to time, sure. — Patrick O’Brian, Post Captain
14. Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strong and content I travel the open road. — Walt Whitman
15. I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles — Niccolo Machiavelli
16. Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods. — Neil Postman
17. Man has been woman’s image of capabilityNow is the time for her to bring about her own strength — Neil Mach, Postcard Angel: An Innocent Girl Becomes The World’s First Pin–up
18. Intervention continues to be a prominent dimension of the post–cold war world. — Mike Jackson
19. We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be. — William Penn
20. It’s cool to go to a place that has posters up and it’s one night only. It feels more special. — Todd Barry
21. Mental illness lives all around us every day. I’ve seen it in other family members, I’ve seen it in friends, and I’ve dealt with it myself with my own postpartum depression. — Rachel Hollis
22. Forget it. Never explain — never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can’t.
23. All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe. — Thomas Paine, The Writing of Thomas Paine
24. Postmodernity means the exhilarating freedom to pursue anything, yet mind–boggling uncertainty as to what is worth pursuing and in the name of what one should pursue it. — Zygmunt Bauman
25. Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow — Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within
26. Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors. — Napoleon Bonaparte
27. Posthumous: It sounds like the name of a Roman gladiator, an unconquered gladiator. At least that’s what poor Posthumous would like to believe. It gives him courage. — Roberto Bolaño
28. One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings. — Martin Filler
29. Hip–hop and country aren’t too far different: They got shiny suits and the boots and the guitars with their names on it. I was infatuated with that type of stuff. — Post Malone
30. For a while I didn’t have a car . . . I had a helicopter . . . no place to park it, so I just tied it to a lamp post and left it running. [slow glance upward] — Steven Wright
31. I want to meet someone who makes me feel the way music does. — Post Malone
32. What is beautiful?Everything that has been loved by someone, That is beautiful. — Newpostcard
33. Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have. — Robert Adams
34. Courage is just dreams with shoes on. — Reba Riley, Post–Traumatic Church Syndrome: A Memoir of Humor and Healing in 30 Religions
35. You don’t gotta be perfect, just keep it real. — Post Malone
36. Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood. — Neil Postman
37. The whole world must see that Israel must exist and has the right to exist, and is one of the great outposts of democracy in the world. — Martin Luther King
38. Make your life a prayer. Live your mediation. — Reba Riley, Post–Traumatic Church Syndrome: A Memoir of Humor and Healing in 30 Religions
39. We ansWered every question they asked that was legitimately pre–election and focused on russia, nothing post–election. — Rudy Giuliani
40. We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be. — William Penn
41. The problem with romantic comedies is you know the ending by the poster. So they’re not movies you can keep doing over and over again expect satisfaction somehow. — Ryan Reynolds
42. I sew his ears on from time to time, sure. — Patrick O’Brian, Post Captain
43. Bullshit french post–war rationalizing — Woody Allen
44. In piecesyet at peacei am a buildIng In a post war city — Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon
45. That’s the fashion. Fast as the speed of light, they say. Ha! It’s got no soul, sir, no heart. — Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
46. My dad was always playing music. Not, like, playing music but listening to music. — Post Malone
47. Hang there like a fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!–Posthumus LeonatusAct V, Scene V — William Shakespeare, Cymbeline
48. Watching television requires no skills and develops no skills. That is why there is no such thing as remedial television–watching. — Neil Postman
49. The covenants are thus fulfilled through the teamwork of the whole Trinity — otherwise the Gospel is dead and ineffective–as the Apostle Paul explains in First Corinthians 15:12–17:
50. If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post–chaise with a pretty woman. — Samuel Johnson