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Entrepreneurs who give up aren’t entrepreneurs for long. Building a business takes time, training, effort and a determined commitment to succeed.

Do you know, life as an entrepreneur can sometimes get you down? Here are some words of wisdom and motivation from men and women who made it through, to drive you to success.

1. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” Henry Ford 
2. “Entrepreneurs are willing to work an 80 hour work to avoid a 40 hour week” Lori Greiner 
3. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” Mark Twain 
4. “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
5. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” Anais Nin 
6. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” Albert Einstein 
7. “The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” Chinese proverb 
8. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” Maya Angelou 
9. “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” Wayne Gretzky 
10. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” Farrah Gray 
11. “If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” Tony Robbins 
12. “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” Beverly Sills 
13. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” Ayn Rand 
14. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” Steve Jobs 
15. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” Stephen Covey 
16. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” Mark Twain 
17. “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
18. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” Aristotle 
19. “Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.” Teddy Roosevelt 
20. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” George Addair 
21. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less travelled, and that has made all the difference.” Robert Frost 
22. “Do it or not. There is no try.” Yoda 
23. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” Lao Tzu 
24. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” Alice Walker 
25. “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” Woody Allen 
26. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” George Eliot 
27. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” Henry Ford 
28. “A ‘startup’ is a company that is confused about – 1. What its product is. 2. Who its customers are. 3. How to make money.” Dave McClure 
29. “All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.” Reid Hoffman 
30. “No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.” Reid Hoffman 
31. “The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.” Reid Hoffman 
32. “In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.” Steve Case 
33. “Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.” Tony Hsieh 
34. “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t – you’re right.” Henry Ford 
35. “Behold the turtle, he makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.” Bruce Levin 
36. “Diligence is the mother of good luck.” Benjamin Franklin 
37. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” Walt Disney 
38. “A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.” Fred Wilson 
39. “We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.” Pete Cashmore 
40. “Always deliver more than expected.” Larry Page
41. “You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground.” Unknown 
42. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” Joshua Marine 
43. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” Booker T. Washington 
44. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” Chinese proverb 
45. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” Florence Nightingale 
46. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” Amelia Earhart 
47. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
 Peter Drucker 
48. “Winners never quit and quitters never win.”
 Vince Lombardi 
49. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
 Bill Gates 
50. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”
 Warren Buffett 
51. “One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you.” Jeff Bezos 
52. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
 Albert Einstein 
53. “As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.”
 Donald Trump 
54. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
 Winston Churchill 
55. “Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.” Thomas Edison 
56. “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”
 Napoleon Hill 
57. “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” Bill Cosby 
58. “Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t, so you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t.”
 Warren G. Tracy’s student 
59. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
 Ralph Nader 
60. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
 Bill Gates 
61. “Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career.” Ryan Freitas 
62. “Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.” Anthony Volodkin 
63. “Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.” Tim O’Reilly 
64. “If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large.” Jeff Bezos 
65. “Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.” Jeffrey Zeldman 
66. “Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.” Tony Hsieh 
67. “Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.” Jack Dorsey 
68. “The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.” Ingvar Kamprad 
69. “Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don’t find one, it’s you.” Mark Cuban 
70. “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.” Drew Houston 
71. “Nothing works better than just improving your product.” Joel Spolsky 
72. “It’s not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.” Edwin Land 
73. “It’s hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower.” Paul Graham 
74. “Entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.” David Karp 
75. “Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.” Michael Arrington 
76. “The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.” Rob Kalin 
77. “Don’t play games that you don’t understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.” Tony Hsieh 
78. “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.” Guy Kawasaki 
79. “Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.” Joel Spolsky 
80. “I doubt I’ll ever go back to corporate work. Once you see the light, there is no turning back.” Magnus Jepson 
81. “Stay self funded as long as possible.” Garrett Camp 
82. “Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.” Biz Stone 
83. “So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.” Caterina Fake 
84. “Trust your instincts.” Estee Lauder 
85. “If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.” Ray Kroc 
86. “Sustaining a successful business is a hell of a lot of work, and staying hungry is half the battle.” Wendy Tan White 
87. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” Bill Gates 
88. “If you define yourself by how you differ from the competition, you’re probably in trouble.” Omar Hamoui 
89. “When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.” Josh James
90. “No more romanticizing about how cool it is to be an entrepreneur. It’s a struggle to save your company’s life – and your own skin – every day of the week.” Spencer Fry 
91. “The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.” Marc Benioff 
92. “I try not to make any decisions that I’m not excited about.” Jake Nickell 
93. “See things in the present, even if they are in the future.” Larry Ellison 
94. “You can’t make anything viral, but you can make something good.” Peter Shankman 
95. “It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you.” Jason Cohen 
96. “Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever.” Noah Everett 
97. “Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.” Michael Dell 
98. “I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.” Jeff Bezos 
99. “I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.” Bill Gates 
100. “You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.” Reid Hoffman 
101. “I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.” Harland Sanders

My Personal Tip for You:
Every entrepreneur faces challenges, and many of them will tell you it's how you handle those challenges that will determine success or failure as a business owner.

I would be glad if you read my another article on 50 Ways to Become a Better Entrepreneur

Long term blogging success is at the forefront of every new bloggers mind. When we take our first tentative steps into the foray of the big blogosphere we are full of fire and ideas. So we blog away, enthusiastically for weeks on end until we run out of steam, ideas or inspiration.

It isn’t easy to be noticed amongst the noise and many bloggers just pack their bags if their place is consistently devoid of visitors.

Blogging can be a very lonely exercise. But contrary to popular belief it doesn’t have to be. Quite the opposite really. You too can survive for the long run with your blog if you implement the 5 critical keys to long term blogging success.

Let’s look at them and how they can help you open hidden doors to your very own blog emporium.

1.) It all starts with the content.
If your content sucks, so will your blog and that’s the end of that. Not many of us are actually gifted enough to publish one killer content post after each other. And we don’t have to either. It is far more important to talk with your heart and write about subjects that are interesting enough to your readers.
You also don’t need to be the expert on your topic, as long as you research your bits, you will be creating a perfectly fine blog post.
While many grapple with the disease of writers block, you don’t really need to. You can create your very own brainstorming list of blog posts in very little time by focusing around a topic, idea, tutorial or series.

2.) Keep planting those seeds.
It is relatively easy to just give up but a lot harder to keep writing. Especially when we run out of ideas it takes considerable effort to keep those posts coming. Remember though, every single bit you do for your blog counts.
Whether you build links, write posts or interact with your community, it all counts. This also includes networking with others who are like minded and operate in the same industry.
These people can be a tremendous source of inspiration that will keep you going for years on end.

3.) Stay focused
Keeping your focus razor sharp is essential for your long term blogging success. In today’s world it is so easy to get sidetracked with yet another idea or project and before you know it, your blog is dead. I suppose you need to think about the longevity of your blog before you fall head over heels if it’s not really what you want to do.

One way that helps with focus is to plan your posts. With the WordPress timestamp feature it is so easy to write a whole batch of posts upfront and publish them for later.
A huge problem for many bloggers is their day job. When they come home at night they are generally exhausted and the last thing they want to do is to blog. This is understandable, especially if you don’t blog for business but merely for fun.
Just remember that a fun blog could quickly turn into a money spitting cash machine with the right content and readers. Just look at the ICanHasCheezBurger blog. What started out as a joke and hobby quickly became a massive income stream.

If you struggle with focus, you might be better of by posting all your weeks entries on the one day and get it over with. That way you can still enjoy private time with your family during the week after a hard days work at the office.

4.) Build your network
I quickly mentioned this in point number three, but deemed it worth its own number since networking is so important. Without a network nothing ever happens in live. We would be lonely and miserable. From an early childhood we form groups and network with like minded people throughout our lives.
Networks help us to belong and form new friendships. The same applies for bloggers. If you network within your industry your blog has a lot more chances at long term success (survival).
You can network by:

• using forums
• comment on other blogs
• social media
• interest groups

Networking has allowed me to make many online friendships and it is those that keep my blog alive.

5.) Don’t fail
Failing is synonym to giving up, so if you want your blog to survive for the long term, you mustn’t give up. I know, it sounds easier than it is. With a bit of effort and resolve while keeping your focus you too can find long term blogging success.