- The secret of getting ahead is getting started. – Agatha Christie
- Every time we launch a feature, people yell at us. —Angelo Sotira, deviantART co-founder
- Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. – Napoleon Hill
- Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career. — Ryan Freitas, About.me co-founder
- You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills. – Jim Rohn
- The biggest failure you can have in life is not trying at all. – Emil Motycka
- Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that. —Anthony Volodkin, Hype Machine founder
- An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made. – Daymond John
- Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations. —Tim O’Reilly, O’Reilly Media founder and CEO
- If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful. – Jeff Bezos
- “If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large. —Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO
- If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers. – Bo Bennett
- Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you. —Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO
- Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect. —Jack Dorsey, Twitter co-founder
- Success is not in what you have, but who you are. – Bo Bennet
- Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. —Steve Jobs, Apple Inc. co-founder, chairman and CEO
- In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. – Bill Cosby
- Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop. —Jeffrey Zeldman, A List Apart Publisher
- For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. – Bo Bennett
- If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not making decisions. – Catherine Cook
- The value of an idea lies in the using of it. —Thomas Edison, General Electric Co-founder
- I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep. – Charles Maurice
- It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen. —Scott Belsky, Behance co-founder
- Leaders don’t force people to follow, they invite them on a journey. – Charles S. Lauer
- A bad workman blames his tools. – Chinese Proverb
- Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don’t find one, it’s you. —Mark Cuban, AXS TV chairman and entrepreneur
- A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. – Chinese Proverb
- When you go to buy, don’t show your silver. – Chinese Proverb
- There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way. – Christopher Morley
- The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, ‘Go!’ – a leader says, ‘Let’s go!’. – E. M. Kelly
- The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow. —Ingvar Kamprad, IKEA founder
- Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea. —Mark Pincus, Zynga CEO
- If you start with nothing and end up with nothing, there’s nothing lost. – Michael Dunlop
- If there’s something you want to build, but the tech isn’t there yet, just find the closest possible way to make it happen. —Dennis Crowley, Foursquare co-founder
- You’ve got to stop doing all the things that people have tried, tested, and found out don’t work. – Michael Dunlop
- The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job. – Michael Gerber
- I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. – Michael Jordan
- Fail often so you can succeed sooner. —Tom Kelley, Ideo partner
- Nothing works better than just improving your product. —Joel Spolsky, Stack Overflow co-founder
- Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process. – Jim Rohn
- Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch. —Michael Arrington, TechCrunch founder and co-editor
- The greatest reward in becoming a millionaire is not the amount of money that you earn. It is the kind of person that you have to become to become a millionaire in the first place. – Jim Rohn
- Every single person I know who is successful at what they do is successful because they love doing it. – Joe Penna
- It’s hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower. —Paul Graham, YCombinator co-founder
- If you think that you are going to love something, give it a try. You’re going to kick yourself in the butt for the rest of your life if you don’t. – Joe Penna
- In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world all rests on perseverance. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors. —Chris Dixon, Andreesen Horowitz investor
- A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. – John C. Maxwell
- It’s not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas. —Edwin Land, Polaroid co-founder
- Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
- Don’t try to be original, just try to be good. —Paul Rand, Graphic Designer
- You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality. – Les Brown
- When you cease to dream you cease to live. – Malcolm Forbes
- If you’re interested in the living heart of what you do, focus on building things rather than talking about them. —Ryan Freitas, About.me co-founder
- I don’t think an economic slump will hurt good ideas. —Rob Kalin, Etsy founder
- The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%. —Rob Kalin, Etsy founder
- Example is not the main thing in influencing other people; it’s the only thing. – Abraham Lincoln
- We are currently not planning on conquering the world. —Sergey Brin, Google co-founder
- All of my friends were doing babysitting jobs. I wanted money without the job. – Adam Horwitz
- The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect. – Adam Osborne
- You can’t make anything viral, but you can make something good. —Peter Shankman, HARO founder
- I’ve always worked very, very hard, and the harder I worked, the luckier I got. – Alan Bond
- If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got! – Alan Scott
- Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. – Albert Einstein
- 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
- Everything started as nothing. – Ben Weissenstein
- The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. –Benjamin Disraeli
- Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. – Benjamin Franklin
- I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. – Bill Cosby
- Start today, not tomorrow. If anything, you should have started yesterday. – Emil Motycka
- Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom. – General George Patton
- I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. – George Burns
- Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching. – George Van Valkenburg
- He who begins many things finishes but few. – German Proverb
- It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. – Grace Hopper
- A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. – Henry Ford
- I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night. – Henry Ford
- Entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create. —David Karp, Tumblr founder and CEO
- Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford
- As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for. – James Cash Penney
- Fall seven times, stand up eight. – Japanese Proverb
- Failure is not about insecurity. It’s about lack of execution. – Jeffrey Gitomer
- Turn a perceived risk into an asset. —Aaron Patzer, Mint founder
- Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said. – Jim Rohn
- Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. – Jim Rohn
- Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. – Jim Rohn
- You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.—Larry Page, Google co-founder
- Formal education will make you a living. Self education will make you a fortune. – Jim Rohn
- A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. – John C. Maxwell
- Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. – Marion C. Garretty
- Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once. —Drew Houston, Dropbox founder and CEO
- Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. – Maya Angelou
- One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching. – Mooie
- Anything the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. – Napoleon Hill
- Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. – Napoleon Hill
- Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. –Napoleon Hill
- If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. – Napoleon Hill
- If you’re not learning while you’re earning, you’re cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation. – Napoleon Hill
- Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual. – Natalie Clifford Barney
- The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. – Nolan Bushnell
- Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice. – Peter Drucker
- The best way to predict the future is to create it. – Peter Drucker
- The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. – Peter Drucker
- The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said. – Peter F. Drucker
- Hire character. Train skill. – Peter Schultz
- The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. – Ralph Nader
- But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you’re confident that you’ll catch a bird flying by. It’s an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn’t come by, but a few times it does. – Reed Hastings
- Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. – Richard Branson
- I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages. – Robert Bosch
- I doubt I’ll ever go back to corporate work. Once you see the light, there is no turning back. —Magnus Jepson, WooThemes co-founder
- You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be. –Robert Collier
- Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work. – Robert Orben
- It is always the start that requires the greatest effort. – James Cash Penney
- Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.” —Guy Kawasaki, Alltop co-founder and entrepreneur
- Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success. —Biz Stone, Twitter co-founder
- Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it. – W. Clement Stone
- Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything. – W. Clement Stone
- I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life.. it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true. – Walt Disney
- Don’t play games that you don’t understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them. —Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO
- The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney
- Do not wait to strike until the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. – William B. Sprague
- The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it. – William James
- Every choice you make has an end result. – Zig Ziglar
- Anything that is measured and watched, improves. —Bob Parsons, GoDaddy founder
- One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. – Andre Gide
- Stay self-funded as long as possible. —Garrett Camp, founder of Expa, Uber and StumbleUpon
- Make it happen now, not tomorrow. Tomorrow is a loser’s excuse. – Andrew Fashion
- After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts. – Aristotle
- The road to success is always under construction. – Arnold Palmer
- Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games. – Babe Ruth
- The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world." —Marc Benioff, Salesforce CEO
- Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you. – Mark Cuban
- Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. – Mark Twain
- If you’re going to put your product in beta – put your business model in beta with it.” —Joe Kraus, Google Ventures partner
- Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. – Mark Twain
- See things in the present, even if they are in the future. —Larry Ellison, Oracle co-founder
- The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. – Colin R. Davis
- Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day. —Joel Spolsky, Stack Overflow co-founder
- A savvy entrepreneur will not always look for investment money, first. – Daymond John
- If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. – Derek Bok
- Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not. —Michael Dell, Dell chairman and CEO
- If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late. —Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder
- Have the end in mind and every day make sure your working towards it. – Ryan Allis
- 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
- Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners. – Robert T. Kiyosaki
- There are two rules for success. 1) Never tell everything you know. – Roger H. Lincoln
- An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it. – Roy Ash
- Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. – Thomas Carlyle
- I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas Edison
- I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others… I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent. – Thomas Edison
- Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. – Thomas Edison
- Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. – Thomas J. Watson
