It can be tough to stay motivated when you’re starting a business. That’s why it’s important to have a strong support system and access to resources that can help you succeed. One great way to stay inspired is by reading quotes from other successful entrepreneurs. Below, you’ll find a compilation of some of our favorite skill quotes from entrepreneurs.

1. Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership. — Wangari Maathai

2. The U.K. has to keep investing in new technology, skills, and infrastructure to keep pace with international competition. — Ridley Scott

3. It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers. — Warren G. Bennis

4. Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted. — Mireille Guiliano

5. Procrastination can be overcome with effective time management skills and strategies. — Robert Moment, How to Stop Procrastinating

6. I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill. — Matthew Mcconaughey

7. Things rarely happen for a single reason. Even the cleverest and most skilled manipulators recognize that their real art lies in making use of that which they cannot predict. — Tom Clancy

8. Repetition is the mother of skill. — Tony Robbins

9. Innovation is more attitude than skill. — Sid Mohasseb

10. The English know how to make the best of things. Their so–called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable. — Winston Churchill

11. You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm. — Robyn Davidson

12. No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings. — Urie Bronfenbrenner

13. Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master. — Thomas Jefferson

14. Institutions train you to be skilled — the wilderness trains you to become great.

15. Being skilled in Catsism is like being a ninja only deadlier and not so silent. The only bad thing is the sickening grammar you have to use. — Will Advise, Nothing is here…

16. Learning through the arts reinforces critical academic skills in reading, language arts and math, and provides students with the skills to creatively solve problems. — Michelle Obama

17. There is a difference between skill and talent. Master the skill to allow the talent out. — Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

18. I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man. — Walt Disney

19. Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you. — Robert A. Heinlein

20. Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on. — Norman Vincent Peale

21. Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent — Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

22. There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills. — Shiv Khera

23. Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else’s footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill. — Twyla Tharp

24. In leadership, skills may take you where character won’t keep you. — Mike Ayers, Power to Lead: Five Essentials for the Practice of Biblical Leadership

25. The U.K. has to keep investing in new technology, skills, and infrastructure to keep pace with international competition. — Ridley Scott

26. Throughout your life advance daily, becoming more skillful than yesterday, more skillful than today. This is never–ending. — Tsunetomo Yamamoto

27. My mother, may her soul rest in peace, shaped my personality; thanks to her, I have acquired many values, good traits and skills. — Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

28. Civilians are like beans — you buy ’em as needed for any job which merely requires skill and savvy.But you can’t buy fighting spirit.

29. Don’t build a team that will fuel your ‘ego’. Build a team that has the skills, desire & passion for fueling the ‘vision’. — Yvonne Pierre, The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir

30. Ye may have skill in the nature of things, yet nature can do more than all physicians put together; and God is far more above nature. — Oliver Cromwell

31. Institutions train you to be skilled — the wilderness trains you to become great.

32. Stir the world with your skills, shake the world with your talents, move the world with your brilliance, change the world with your genius. — Matshona Dhliwayo

33. Those with prodigious skill in music are better suited for all things. — Martin Luther

34. Tom has a proven record of advancing conservative solutions and principles. he has the knowledge and skills needed to be an effective majority leader, and i’m proud to support him. — Paul Ryan

35. A person might be an expert in any field of knowledge or a master of many material skills and accomplishments. But without inner cleanliness his brain is a desert waste. — Sathya Sai Baba

36. Partying and dancing have never been my thing, but drinking I could do with reasonable familiarity and skills. I decided to begin there. — Vann Chow, Shanghai Nobody

37. No one can discover you until you do. Exploit your talents, skills and strengths and make the world sit up and take notice. — Rob Liano

38. Jews, black people–any people who are hated or who have suffered, either as individuals or as a people–use humour. It is a survival skill. — Sarah Silverman

39. The reason I started with prostitutes was solely to work on my negotiating skills. Once I mastered negotiating with naked women, dealing with Interscope was a piece of cake. — Rivers Cuomo

40. Without patience and the skill of a craftsman, even the greatest talent is wasted. — Orhan Pamuk

41. Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success. — Scott Adams

42. It would be either a very skilled or very unwise man to steal from an assassin.’–Taliesin — Sabrina Zbasnik, Dwarves in Space

43. I’ve never been able to write a movie script. I respect that skill so much, but it’s not been the way my brain works. — Mary Steenburgen

44. It would be pretty funny to see a Beverly Hills white girl with mad rap skills. — Tori Spelling

45. I was like, ‘If I don’t change my mind, if I don’t change my heart, if I don’t develop some skill, I’m always going to be sleeping in my car. — Tony Robbins

46. Build your skills, not your resume. — Sheryl Sandberg

47. Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else’s footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill. — Twyla Tharp

48. Through my education, I didn’t just develop skills, I didn’t just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence. — Michelle Obama

49. I had designed–in high school designed hundreds and hundreds of computers over and over and over, so I developed these skills without ever thinking I’d do it in life as job. — Steve Wozniak

50. For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. — Sun Tzu

Overall, skills are important, and these quotes remind us of that. They motivate us to keep learning and growing in order to get better at the things we do. It’s never too late to develop your skills and become the best version of yourself. So, never stop learning, and never forget the power of skill.