10 Inspirational Songs for Entrepreneurs

Some­times when I’m alone dur­ing the day on my com­put­er I get a lit­tle beat down. So, I have an inspi­ra­tional playlist that I whip out in times of need.

Like the song ver­sion of Super­man, com­ing to save the day. Minus the tights.

I thought, if this playlist helps me, it will prob­a­bly help some­one else feel bet­ter too.

I present to you, in no par­tic­u­lar order, my top 10 Inspi­ra­tional Songs for Entrepreneurs!

10. Panic! At The Disco: High Hopes

My cur­rent favorite song! Pan­ic! At The Dis­co is one of my all time top 10 favorite bands and their new album is prob­a­bly bet­ter than A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out. Fight me.  Their lead singer Bren­don had this to say about the song: “I spent too long not set­ting my expec­ta­tions high enough, wor­ried about how it felt to fail. I hit a point when I real­ized I had to aim high and fail, fail, fail in order to keep growing.”

If that does­n’t describe me and my life right now, I don’t know what does. Check out some lyrics below and lis­ten to the song. You WILL be inspired.

Had to have high high hopes for a living
Shoot­ing for the stars when I couldn’t make a killing
Didn’t have a dime but I always had a vision
Always had high high hopes
Had to have high high hopes for a living
Didn’t know how but I always had a feeling
I was gonna be that one in a million
Always had high high hopes

9. Shawn Mendes — In My Blood

This was my anthem before High Hopes came out. I first heard this song in the car one night and was struck breath­less by the depth of emo­tion he sang about. Being an entre­pre­neur is HARD and this song talks about not giv­ing up no mat­ter what you’re facing.

8. Kanye West — Stronger

Let’s just ignore the fact that Kanye loves Kanye more than any­thing else in the world (and this was before he got with Kim­my K.…). This song is for sure a clas­sic. I know it’s all about him try­ing to get with a chick but I still find this song odd­ly inspir­ing. Some­thing about the Daft Punk over­tones in the song, I think. “N‑now th-that that don’t kill me / Can only make me stronger” I don’t know what it is about this line but I almost get goose­bumps from it. I will not be defeat­ed by becom­ing an entre­pre­neur. Every­thing that does­n’t work, only makes me stronger and more capa­ble of han­dling what­ev­er life throws at me next. Guaranteed.

7. The Script — Hall of Fame ft. will.i.am

Hel­lo major dose of inspi­ra­tion. Work hard and the world will know your name when you’re stand­ing in the Hall of Fame [the crowd goes wild]. You work hard and smart and you’ll get suc­cess. Now, that’s not guar­an­teed, but you’d be amazed at how hard oth­er peo­ple don’t work. I don’t think there’s a Hall of Fame for finan­cial entre­pre­neurs (is the Plu­tus Awards as close as we get?) but the Hall of Fame for entre­pre­neurs looks an awful lot like hav­ing enough mon­ey to live and pay tax­es with­out hav­ing to go back to the cor­po­rate world.

Stand­ing in the hall of fame
And the world’s gonna know your name
‘Cause you burn with the bright­est flame
And the world’s gonna know your name
And you’ll be on the walls of the hall of fame

6. Kelly Clarkson — Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)

Anoth­er pow­er house bal­lad from one of my favorite artists. I know, this one is about a break up (and does won­ders for your men­tal well being after a breakup) but! It does inspire me on days where every­thing is going side­ways mon­ey­wise. None of this stuff is going to kill me. I am going to come out stronger on the oth­er side.

5. Rachel Platten — Fight Song

I used to play this song on repeat when it came out in 2014. I’m not even kid­ding when I say I prob­a­bly played it 60 times a day. I love this song and every­thing it rep­re­sents. Seri­ous­ly. What an anthem!

To me, this song is all about the inner strength of char­ac­ter. The world might not believe in you, but that does­n’t mat­ter. What mat­ters is if YOU believe in YOURSELF.

This is my fight song
Take back my life song
Prove I’m alright song
My pow­er’s turned on
Start­ing right now I’ll be strong
I’ll play my fight song
And I don’t real­ly care if nobody else believes
‘Cause I’ve still got a lot of fight left in me

4. Carrie Underwood — The Champion ft. Ludacris

Look! A song with Ludacris in it that does­n’t start with that obnox­ious “luda!!” This song is one step down from watch a Rocky marathon on the inspi­ra­tion scale. Espe­cial­ly if you watch the video. I love it. There’s that quote “It does­n’t mat­ter how many times you fall… what mat­ters is how many times you stand up, shake it off, and move for­ward”. (Is that a quote from Rocky?) I’ve been knocked down a few times on this entre­pre­neur­ial jour­ney, but each time it’s hap­pened I’ve got­ten back up, dust­ed off my behind, and kept right on going. Ok fine, there were some tears and ice cream involved in there too.

I am invin­ci­ble, unbreakable
Unstop­pable, unshakeable
They knock me down, I get up again
I am the champion

3. Chumbawamba — Tubthumping

As some­one who calls her­self a 90’s kid, I’m still real­ly con­fused at this video. I have ques­tions. A lot of them. Some­one born before 1985 help me.
1. This song has a title?
2. What kind of title is Tubthumping?
3. What was going on with 90’s style? It looks like some­thing that belongs in one of those Alien worlds from Men in Black.
4. Is this their only hit?

Any­ways, mil­lions of ques­tions lat­er.… the point of this post. I think it’s still pret­ty inspir­ing even if I’m 90% sure pos­i­tive it’s a song about drink­ing and fight­ing. Still, there’s some­thing about that music and the lyrics that get you pumped up. Or some­thing. I’d include more lyrics of the song below, but that’s legit most of the song, just with dif­fer­ent inflections.

I get knocked down, but I get up again
You are nev­er gonna keep me down

2. Eminem — Lose Yourself

Ok Mil­len­ni­als, now is your time to shine. Send me your best Mom’s spaghet­ti memes on social media and I’ll share my favorites later.

I don’t know any­body that does­n’t get pumped up when this song comes on. Seri­ous­ly, a clas­sic. This was his first major hit. I hope my first hit comes to me while l’m lis­ten­ing to this song.

1). Alicia Keys — Girl On Fire

Lest you think I would end this list on a heavy note, I bring you my girl Ali­cia. I am a girl, and I am on fiyah. The world is on fiyah. Every­thing is on fiyah. I should change my name to Fiyahry Mil­len­ni­als. I feel a deep con­nec­tion to this song as it was writ­ten about me (not real­ly but it’s fun to say).

So, there you have it. My favorite songs for inspi­ra­tion! Did I miss any? Sound off in the com­ments below with your picks! Don’t for­get to help me under­stand Tubthump­ing, too 😉