Are you looking for a little bit of inspiration? In this article, we have compiled some of the best quotes to get you fired up.
1. Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard. -Guy Kawasaki, AllTop Co-founder
2. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. -Bill Gates, Microsoft Co-founder
3. We have a “strategic” plan its called doing things. -Herb Kelleher, Southwest Airlines Cofounder
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4. Make mistakes faster. -Andrew Grove, Intel Co-founder
5. Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. -Warren Buffet, Berkshire Hathaway Chairman
6. Stay hungry. And bootstrap. -Rob Kalin, Etsy Co-founder
7. Learn early. Learn often. -Drew Houston, Dropbox Co-founder
8. We are our choices. Build yourself a great story. -Jeff Bezos, Amazon Founder
9. Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career. – Ryan Freitas, About.com Co-founder
10. The value of an idea lies in the using of it. – Thomas Edison, General Electric Co-founder
11. It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen. – Scott Belsky, Behance Co-founder.
12. We are currently not planning on conquering the world. – Sergey Brin, Google Co-founder.
13. “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once. – Drew Houston, Dropbox Co-founder.
14. Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you. – Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO.
15. Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don’t find one, it’s you. – Mark Cuban, Entrepreneur.
16. Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors. – Chris Dixon, Investor.
17. It’s hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower. – Paul Graham, YCombinator Co-founder.
18. An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and wants to create. – David Karp, Tumblr founder and CEO .
19. I don’t think an economic slump will hurt good ideas. – Rob Kalin, Etsy founder.
20. The best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch. – Michael Arrington, TechCrunch founder .
21. Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day. – Joel Spolsky, Stack Exchange CEO .
22. Stay self-funded as long as possible. – Garrett Camp, founder of StumbleUpon.
23. Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success. – Biz Stone, Twitter co-founder.
24. The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something. – Seth Godin, Squidoo founder, author, and blogger.
25. 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.
26. Turn a perceived risk into an asset. – Aaron Patzer, Mint founder.
27. Anything that is measured and watched, improves. – Bob Parsons, GoDaddy founder.
28. Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the upmarket.” – Jason Calacanis, LAUNCH Ticker founder.
29. 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, CarbonMade Co-founder.
30. The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world. – Marc Benioff, Salesforce CEO.
31. See things in the present, even if they are in the future.” – Larry Ellison, Oracle co-founder.
32. If you’re going to put your product in beta – put your business model in beta with it. – Joe Kraus, Google Ventures partner.
33. You can’t make anything viral, but you can make something good. – Peter Shankman, HARO founder.
34. It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you. – Jason Cohen, Smart Bear Software founder.
35. 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.
36. Ideas are commodities. Execution of them is not. – Michael Dell, Dell chairman and CEO 37. Data beats emotions. – Sean Rad, Adly and Tinder founder .
38. 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, Amazon founder and CEO.
39. You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea. – Larry Page, Google co-founder.
40. 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, 500Startups co-founder .
41. If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late. – Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder.
42. All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA. -Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder .
43. Before dreaming about the future or making plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you – as entrepreneurs do. -Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder.
44. 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, LinkedIn co-founder.
45. The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be. -Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder .
46. I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars — I look for 1-foot bars that I can step over. -Warren Buffet, Berkshire Hathaway chairman and CEO.
47. In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination. -Steve Case, AOL co-founder.
48. Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you. -Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO .
49. Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning, because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things differently from everybody else. – Sara Blakely, SPANX founder.
50. What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone. Know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed. – Dave Thomas, Founder, Wendy’s.