73 Empire Building Quotes

Martha Martins
Sep 29, 2023 By Martha Martins
Originally Published on Jan 04, 2023
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These empire-building quotes show you how be successful in creating your own brand.

Why empire-building quotes?

Success depends on self-improvement, endurance, preparation, strategy, and discipline. Business owners who want to grow their company and create an empire must constantly remind themselves that great things take time.

They can succeed if they are determined, persistent, hardworking, and passionate. Business owners with the mindset of ‘I want to build an empire’ can keep working throughout their lives to get there. They put in more time than people usually assume.

The phrase ‘Rome was not built in a day’ perfectly represents the incredible effort and time it takes to create a lasting empire successfully. The people carrying such ambitions must withstand risks, political control, possible disasters, and multiple changes through time.

To build an empire, you want to become the boss in your life. Continue to feel intense and be committed to shaping your desire into reality.

Staying modest in the highs and avoiding discouragement in the lows will help you maintain a balanced perspective. This collection of quotes can help clarify what such ambitions to create an empire requires of a person.

What parents should know

  • Many people with multi-billion dollar empires started in their 20s, like Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Daniel Ek, and Richard Branson.
  • The legacy of your empire will depend on your ability to maintain the unity of the people who support it.
  • Staying hungry to achieve your goals is essential, but not without humility. 

What to discuss with kids

  • Do not be afraid to dream bigger, but keep it real. Many dreams can come to be true if you keep working towards them.
  • Empires can be built from scratch. You can find great examples in Howard Schultz, Jan Koum, Oprah Winfrey, and Ralph Lauren.
  • Your weirdest and seemingly impossible ideas can turn out to be the road to creating your empire.   

Savage Empire Building Quotes

1. “Try not to waste your entire life working just to earn a paycheck. Seek to discover what your true passion in life is, and start working on turning it into an empire of your own.” - Edmond Mbiaka

2. “Stop talking about how you will build an empire, and start building it right at this very moment. Time never waits for anyone to feel perfectly ready.” - Edmond Mbiaka

3. “To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.” - Thomas Watson Sr.

4. “Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” - Napoleon Hill

5. “In every success story, you will find someone who has made a courageous decision.” - Peter F. Drucker

6. “Everyone who achieves success in a great venture solves each problem as they came. They helped themselves and they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they meet.” - W. Clement Stone

7. “Every time we launch a feature, people yell at us.” - Angelo Sotira

8. “Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.” - Wayne Huizenga

9. “When you are busy building your empire, then please don't waste your time by getting influenced with small houses.” - Unknown*

10. “When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.” - Robert Kiyosaki

11. “You cannot build an empire hands folded.” - Matshona Dhliwayo

12. “If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.” - Dhirubhai Ambani

13. “You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.

So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something—your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” - Steve Jobs

14. “Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.” - Jack Welch

15. “A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.” - Nolan Bushnell

16. “If you just work on stuff that you like and you're passionate about, you don't have to have a master plan with how things will play out.” - Mark Zuckerberg

17. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” - Walt Disney

18. “Just because I'm a girl, doesn't mean I don't know how to build an empire.” - Tamara McCleary

Motivational Empire Building Quotes

19. “My goal is to build a life I don't need a vacation from." - Rob Hill

20. “Every day may not be good. But there is something good in every day.” - Alica Morse Earl

21. “Whether you think you can, or think you can't – you're right.” - Henry Ford

22. “Every great building once begun as a building plan. That means, sitting in that building plan on the table is a mighty structure not yet seen. It is the same with dreams.” - Israelmore Ayivor

23. “It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.” - Scott Belsky

24. “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.” - Guy Kawasaki

25. “Everything begins with an idea.” - Earl Nightengale

26. "Don't start a company unless it's an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it's not an obsession."  - Mark Cuban

27. “A big business starts small.” - Richard Branson

28. “Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success.

But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that's where you will find success.” - Thomas Watson Sr.

29. “There is no finish line. There are only mile markers.” - Michael Ventura

30. “The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.” - Seth Godin

31. “Building castles in the air is only wise if you build a ladder to reach them.” - Matshona Dhliwayo

32. “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful.” - Eric Thomas

33. “You don't build a business, you build people, and then people build the business.” - Zig Ziglar

34. " "Make something people want" includes making a company that people want to work for." - Sahil Lavingia

35. “Find a great mentor, someone who has already been through the many challenges of being an entrepreneur.” - Jodi Levine

36. “A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.” - Benjamin Franklin

37. “The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.” - Socrates

38. “I'm trying to build an empire, because after this, I cannot get a normal job.” - Nicole Polizzi

39. “When you find an idea that you just can't stop thinking about, that's probably a good one to pursue.” - Josh James

40. “Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes it's built on catastrophe.” - Sumner Redstone

41. “If you're passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.” - Pierre Omidyar

42. “Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.” - Anne Sweeney

Empire Building Quotes On Unity

43. “Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes.” - Dee Hock

44. “Spend time upfront to invest in systems and processes to make long-term growth sustainable.” - Jeff Platt

45. “Help your team feel more connected to your company by incorporating the right digital technology tools into their workflow.” - Andrea Meyer

46. “Make you team feel respected, empowered, and genuinely excited about the company's mission.” - Tim Westergren

47. “Be so good they can't ignore you.” - Steve Martin

48. “Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” - Theodore Roosevelt

49. “Bringing great people onto your team is about demonstrating that size really doesn't matter - people do.” - Jess Campbell

50. “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” - Vince Lombardi

51. “Collective thinking builds empires.” - Mac Duke

52. “Respect could build an empire. Trust could make it unbreakable. Love could make it last forever.” - ‘A Touch Of Darkness’, Scarlett St. Claire

Empire Building Quotes On Leadership

53. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” - Estee Lauder

54. “I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” - Steve Jobs

55. “I find that the harder I work the, the more luck I seem to have.” - Thomas Jefferson

56. “Don't be afraid to assert self, have confidence in your abilities,” - Michael Bloomberg

57. “In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” - Theodore Roosevelt

58. “Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it's starting a new business, whether it's leaving home, whether it's getting married, or whether it's flying in space.” - Chris Hadfield

59. “The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat; who strives valiantly, who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.” - Theodore Roosevelt

60. “So many guys try to show off to a girl by boasting of their financial assets and flashing their cash around etc, but a girl who makes her own money and is building her own empire is not impressed by such things. Show me the integrity not the money.” - Miya Yamanouchi

61. “Do something today that your future self will thank you for.” - Sean Patrick Flanery

62. “A house you build with your hands, but an empire you build with your heart.” - Matshona Dhliwayo

63. “Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They're realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks.” - Elbert Hubbard

64. “I'm not ignoring you. I'm busy building my empire.” - Moosa Rahat

65. “Every problem is a gift – without problems we would not grow.” - Anthony Robbins

66. “At some point you have to toss aside the things and people that don't work and just build your empire.” - Travis Simmons

67. “If you're interested in the living heart of what you do, focus on building things rather than talking about them.” - Ryan Freitas

68. “In order to build your empire, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” - Bill Cosby

69. “Intelligence will help you build a company; wisdom will help you build an empire.” - Matshona Dhliwayo

70. “Don't wait. The time will never be just right.” - Napoleon Hill

71.“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” Albert Schweitzer

72. “When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the choice. You can overcome and be a winner, or you can allow it to overcome you and be a loser.

The choice is yours and yours alone. Refuse to throw in the towel. Go that extra mile that failures refuse to travel. It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.” - Mary Kay Ash

73. “Create with the heart; build with the mind.” - Criss Jami

 

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Written by Martha Martins

Bachelor of Arts specializing in Linguistics

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Martha MartinsBachelor of Arts specializing in Linguistics

Martha is a full-time creative writer, content strategist, and aspiring screenwriter who communicates complex thoughts and ideas effectively. She has completed her Bachelor's in Linguistics from Nasarawa State University. As an enthusiast of public relations and communication, Martha is well-prepared to substantially impact your organization as your next content writer and strategist. Her dedication to her craft and commitment to delivering high-quality work enables her to create compelling content that resonates with audiences.

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