Whether you’re an early stage start-up, growing at a success rate that you’ve never dreamt, or just contemplating making the leap to entrepreneurship, we all need a little inspiration.
Entrepreneurs who follow their dreams and are driven by passion can have bad days too. We’re sure these 45 quotes will power you through to bring out your best.
6. "You can't use up
creativity. The more
you use, the more
you have."
- Maya Angelou,
world renowned
poet and activist
7. “Nine out of ten
businesses fail; so I
came up with a
foolproof plan —
create ten
businesses.”
- Robert Kiyosaki,
author and
investor
8. "You miss 100
percent of the shots
you don't take."
- Wayne Gretzky,
world’s greatest
hockey player
9. “Your brand is what
people say about
you when you are
not in the room.”
- Jeff Bezos,
Founder of
Amazon
10. “If everything seems
under control, you’
re just not going
fast enough.”
- Mario Andretti,
legendary race car
driver
11. “Make your product
easier to buy than
your competition, or
you will find your
customers buying
from them, not you”
- Mark Cuban,
Serial entrepreneur
12. “It’s much easier to
double your business
by doubling your
conversion rate than
by doubling your
traffic.”
- Jeff Eisenberg,
entrepreneur
13. “Success is a lousy
teacher. It seduces
smart people into
thinking they can’t
lose.”
- Bill Gates, co-
founder of Microsoft
21. “The secret to
successful hiring is
this: look for the
people who want to
change the world.”
- Marc Benioff,
Salesforce CEO
22. “Any time is a good
time to start a
company.”
- Ron Conway,
Noted Startup
Investor, SV Angel
23. “We all die. The goal
isn't to live forever,
the goal is to create
something that
will.”
- Chuck Palahniuk,
Author of “Fight
Club”
24. “When you cease to
dream you cease to
live.”
- Malcolm Forbes,
Publisher of Forbes
Magazine
25. “You don’t learn to
walk by following
rules. You learn by
doing, and by
falling over.”
- Sir Richard
Branson, Business
magnate
26. “Some people dream
of success... while
others wake up and
work hard at it.”
- Mark Zuckerberg,
Founder of
Facebook
27. “If you are not
embarrassed by the
first version of your
product, you’ve
launched too late.”
- Reid Hoffman,
LinkedIn Co-Founder
and Venture
Capitalist
28. “Focus on the long
term, and always do
what’s right to grow
the company and not
make short-term
decisions. Outlast
everyone. ”
- Adam D’Angelo, Co-
founder and CEO Quora
29. “One can get
anything if he is
willing to help
enough others get
what they want.”
- Zig Ziglar,
Motivational
Speaker and Author
30. “Every time we
launch a feature,
people yell at us.”
- Angelo Sotira,
DeviantART co-
founder
31. “Don’t worry about
people stealing your
design work. Worry
about the day they
stop.”
- Jeffrey Zeldman, A
List Apart Publisher
32. “The value of an
idea lies in the using
of it.”
- Thomas Edison,
Co-founder of
General Electric
33. “Get five or six of
your smartest
friends in a room
and ask them to
rate your idea.”
- Mark Pincus,
Zynga CEO
34. “The best startups
generally come
from somebody
needing to scratch
an itch.”
- Michael Arrington,
TechCrunch founder
and co-editor
35. “The last 10% it
takes to launch
something takes as
much energy as the
first 90%.”
- Rob Kalin, Etsy
founder
36. “When I’m old and
dying, I plan to look
back on my life and
say ‘wow, that was
an adventure,’ not
‘wow, I sure felt
safe.’"
- Tom Preston-Werner,
Github Co-founder
37. “I try not to make
any decisions that I’
m not excited
about.”
- Jake Nickell,
Threadless founder
and CEO
38. “See things in the
present, even if they
are in the future.”
- Larry Ellison,
Oracle co-founder
39. “Don’t worry about
funding if you don’t
need it. Today it’s
cheaper to start a
business than ever.”
- Noah Everett,
Twitpic founder
40. “I don’t look to jump
over 7-foot bars — I
look for 1-foot bars
that I can step
over.”
- Warren Buffett,
Berkshire Hathaway
chairman and CEO
41. “Risk more than
others think is safe.
Dream more than
others think is
practical.”
- Howard Schultz,
Starbucks CEO
42. “We are really
competing against
ourselves, we have
no control over how
other people
perform.”
- Pete Cashmore,
Mashable founder
and CEO
43. “Don’t be afraid to
assert yourself,
have confidence in
your abilities and
don’t let the
bastards get you
down.”
- Michael Bloomberg,
Bloomberg L.P.
founder
45. “When you find an
idea that you just
can’t stop thinking
about, that’s
probably a good one
to pursue.”
- Josh James,
Omniture CEO
and co-founder
46. “To any
entrepreneur: if you
want to do it, do it
now. If you don’t,
you’re going to
regret it.”
- Catherine Cook,
MyYearbook
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