There are a lot of quotes about entrepreneurship out there. Some people seem to think that being an entrepreneur is easy, and all you need is a great idea and the drive to make it happen. While those things are certainly important, they’re not the only factors that contribute to success as an entrepreneur. In fact, there are a lot of other things you need to know in order to be successful. So if you’re thinking about starting your own business, or if you’ve been running one for a while but haven’t been seeing the results you want, then read on. This post is compilation of some of the best quotes about entrepreneurship, so that you can learn what it really takes to be successful in this field.

1. His eyes saved him. What they insisted on seeing and reporting to him took him out of the autism of terror. — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
2. The way I’m seeing it, God has given me all this for me to realize that this isn’t what I really need in my life. — Nicky Jam
3. There are different ways of seeing things. That’s art. There is no one interpretation. — Sharon Leach, Love It When You Come, Hate It When You Go: Stories
4. … life wasn’t full of problems, it was rich with decisions. — Shirley Rousseau Murphy, Cat Seeing Double
5. The doctrine of grace and redemption keeps us from seeing any person or situation as hopeless. — Timothy Keller
6. Seeing the familiar faces and working together for one cause, which is our customers, you know, it’s been a great blessing and helped me recover. — Robert Evans
7. People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced. — Samuel Butler
8. I have a very silly sense of humor. I’ve never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe. — Paula Poundstone
9. What’s powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It’s seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear. — Patrick Swayze
10. When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing–things–from–the–other–fellow’s–point–of–view is seldom necessary. — Terry Pratchett
11. Recognizing isn’t at all like seeing — the two often don’t even agree.
12. The greatest ugliness in the world is seeing so beautiful a creature spoil themselves on stupidity. — Michelle Franklin, The Leaf Flute–A Marridon Novella
13. Man’s gift of seeing resemblances is nothing other than a rudiment of the powerful compulsion in former times to become and behave like something else. — Walter Benjamin
14. ‘you can’t solve problems until you understand the other side.”–Jeffrey Manber’ — Ron Garan, The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles
15. I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message. — Steve Irwin
16. I will never forget seeing what hate can destroy… I will never forget seeing what love can heal… — Steve Maraboli
17. If Your Eyes Are Opened, You’ll See The Things Worth Seeing. — Rumi
18. When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door. — Victor Hugo
19. I didn’t really understand fashion until I started going to Paris and seeing the ateliers and how hard these people work. It’s art. — Reese Witherspoon
20. Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting. — Robin Hobb
21. I am seeing life in two dimensions — human and divine.
22. Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways. — Victor Hugo
23. If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. — Rabindranath Tagore
24. I turned to the window. A single raindrop fell against it, and seeing my reflection in the glass, I suddenly knew why Finn’s eyes were familiar.They were exactly like mine. — Pamela Nicole
25. I’m in Stockholm in my office. I just got here after seeing my eighth child on an ultrasound, so I’m in a good mood. It’s beautiful: an energetic little skeleton. — Stellan Skarsgård
26. Seeing the enemy as human. A general’s ultimate nightmare. — Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes
27. When we identify the thoughts that keep us from seeing others as they truly are we prepare the ground for real love. — Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
28. Most people are dependent on legal drugs but this is somehow not an obstacle to seeing an enemy in every underground addict. — Plamen Chetelyazov, Flaws of Oblivion
29. I love traveling and seeing new things, learning the histories of different cultures. But I’ve always wanted to go to the Galapagos to see the giant turtles. — Mikaela Shiffrin
30. What makes these creatures so awful is the feeling that they can use us in ways too horrible to imagine–and yet, we DO imagine them, which makes it worse than seeing it. — Sigourney Weaver
31. When you don’t change, history repeats itself. Then you have to decide if changing is for the best, or you keep seeing repeats because you’re doing something right. — Rebecca McKinsey
32. All of us are watchers–of television of time clocks of traffic on the freeway–but few are observers. Everyone is looking not many are seeing. — Peter M. Leschak
33. To the degree you experience God’s love towards you–seeing you as beautiful and radiant–to that degree sex won’t ruin your life. — Timothy J. Keller
34. You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. — Paulo Coelho
35. If I could live in one city and do every single thing I do there, I would choose Venice. You can’t turn your head without seeing something amazing. — Nile Rodgers
36. Wholeheartedly do what it takes to awaken your clear–seeing intelligence, but one day at a time, one moment at a time. If we live that way, we will benefit this earth. — Pema Chodron
37. I can’t just wake up and watch TV and do nothing. I need a day off working out, seeing the wife, play a little golf, see my kids. — Pete Sampras
38. These songs were half based on what i was going through, but seeing them through a game of thrones filter. — Taylor Swift
39. Open collaboration encourages greater accountability, which in turn fosters trust. — Ron Garan, The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles
40. If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
41. Seeing him was a sucker punch to the gut. Once upon a time he’d loved her. And then when he’d stopped, it wasn’t really his fault. — Sarina Bowen, Rookie Move
42. What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail–road car! — Ralph Waldo Emerson
43. It was very much that feeling of having worked so hard on Da Vinci’s for three years without seeing sunlight that, unless the right thing came along, I didn’t want to do it. — Tom Riley
44. Always seeing something, never seeing nothing, being photographer — Walter De Mulder
45. What makes these creatures so awful is the feeling that they can use us in ways too horrible to imagine–and yet, we DO imagine them, which makes it worse than seeing it. — Sigourney Weaver
46. I win by submissions, knockouts. There’s guys ranked above me, but no one’s interested in seeing them fight. They want to see me fight. — Nate Diaz
47. Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection. — Victor Hugo
48. Don’t you get tired of seeing so many ‘non–conformists’ with the same non–conformist look? — Thomas Sowell
49. ‘we only get what we can deal with.”The real voyage of discovery consists…in seeing with new eyes’ — Sinéad Moriarty
50. I remember seeing Eric Cantona play for Manchester United. The way he used to control games was special to watch. — Ronaldinho