Bhagavad Gita Quotes for Entrepreneurs

Prosperity is best held as a trust.

Notice when your gain requires someone else’s loss.

Greed turns hard work into harm.

Don’t let a catalogue of competitors become your identity.

Wealth carries the stain of how it was gained.

Create value for others; abundance will follow.

Don’t begin what you haven’t measured.

Prepare for criticism before you take the path it follows.

A wise person's plans are clean of greed.

A fog of confusion is the worst time to start something big.

Fair trade is a form of trust.

Renounce the fruit, not the work.

The restless chase fruit; the steady plant seeds.

Work on; release the reward.

Ask first what is right, then what is profitable.

Find stillness inside your busiest hour.

Let go of the fruit and the work becomes light.

Work firmly; hold the result loosely.

Renounce the fruit, not the work.

Ask of every plan: whose wanting is this?

Peace belongs to those who release the fruit.

Strive wisely, not just hard.

Freedom lies in giving up the ownership of results.

Do your part fully; leave the harvest to the field.

One clear purpose is stronger than a thousand scattered wishes.

Plant with care; do not stand guard over the fruit.

Those who work only for rewards stay poor even when they win.

Create without clinging to being the creator.

Do the work; let the wanting go.

Plan well, but do not let desire hold the pen.

Enjoy only what remains after you have given.

Sustainable effort beats heroic bursts.

Indifference to results is the secret of freedom in action.

Beware the busyness that feeds on wanting more.

Earn honestly and your sleep will be lighter.

Wealth is a good servant, but a harsh master.

Humility keeps wealth from becoming a wall.

Do not let a result be your reason to begin.

Busyness and right action are different things.

Meet gain and loss with the same quiet face.

Wealth shared is wealth sanctified.

Sharing is how abundance becomes peace.

Desire for results is the knot that binds.

Contentment in what you know makes gold and gravel look alike.

Goodness is the one investment that cannot fail.

Effort poured into emptiness leaves you empty.

A life built only on rewards must keep earning them.

Do the work; surrender the doer's pride.

Treat gold and gravel with the same calm.

Wealth gathered unfairly weighs on the gatherer.

Do not let wealth make you deaf to advice.

Wealth can intoxicate; keep your feet on the ground.

When others stake everything on your cause, examine the cause.

Ask what you are really worshipping when you chase results.

Ask what your action truly is before you ask what it will earn.

Let go of the need to climb forever.

Misdirected ambition is a quiet kind of loss.

Wealth held lightly can be a servant of good.

Purpose lifts ordinary effort into something sacred.

A flurry of new projects can be a way of not being still.

Drop the projects that exist only to prove something.

Success measured against rivals leaves you always on guard.

Action driven by craving burns out quickly.

Work done for payoff alone stays small.

Worldly rewards arrive fast and leave just as fast.

Knowledge burns away the knots of desire in your plans.

Gain and loss are guests; be a gracious host.

Offer your plans to something larger and see them lighten.

Temporary rewards need constant renewal; lasting ones rest in you.

When the goal is an offering, failure loses its sting.

Ask what is yours to do, not what looks impressive.

Decide, then stand; hesitation is the only sure loss.

Surrender the result and keep your hands clean.

Desire for outcome is the engine of restlessness.

Be so rooted that wealth cannot flatter you.

Working for something greater makes the self lighter.

When ambition clouds the mind, right and wrong blur.

A cause that asks everything of people must first deserve everything.

Ask what the kingdom is for.

Ask what a win will cost before you chase it.

Some prosperity is not worth the price of your peace.

Prosperity grows where offering is part of life.

Hoarding starves even a full house.

Let the fruit fall where it will; keep walking.

Passion for results makes the worker restless.

Resolve tied to payoff snaps when the payoff fades.

Flawless conditions are a myth; begin anyway.

Imperfect action beats perfect hesitation.

Know what you are stepping into.

Too many goals become no goal at all.

What would you attempt if the result were not yours to carry?

Free yourself from the bargain of effort for reward.

Ambition aimed at service is lighter than ambition aimed at self.

The first share belongs to something larger than you.

Release the scoreboard; keep playing.

‘I did it all myself’ is rarely the whole truth.

Slow down; ambition without calm is noise.

Count what you might lose before you count what you might win.

Don't wait for the perfect invitation; some doors open without a knock.

Misjudgement by others is part of any serious path.

Drop the grand plans of ego; keep the honest work.

Check what your ambition costs other people.

Livelihood and ethics can walk together.

Knowing the field is wise; obsessing over it is not.

Don’t let the means swallow the people they were meant to serve.

Chasing success? Notice what it costs your stillness.

Ego-driven ventures exhaust; effort offered up renews.

Gain, loss, and everything in between: let none of them own you.

Accept the cost of doing anything at all.

Humility is the cheapest insurance against ruin.

Support the senior, but don’t make one person the single point of failure.

Gather the people who share your purpose.

Quick results come to quick desires.

Don’t let accumulation become your reason for persevering.

Desire for outcomes is a fast road with a short horizon.

What would your plans look like without craving?