50 ENTREPRENEURIAL

QUOTES.

 

I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

THOMAS EDISON

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to

bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

STEVE JOBS

Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.

SETH GODIN

Global vision, local win.

JACK MA

It’s hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the

shower.

PAUL GRAHAM

We never thought of it as customer service. We just treat people how we

would want to be treated.

SALLY STREBEL

If you believe in something, work nights and weekends. It won’t feel

like work.

KEVIN ROSE

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you

look like an overnight success.

BIZ STONE

Observe the world around you – everything you do, and especially

everything you hate to do.

AARON PATZER

Ideas are a commodity. Execution of them is not.

MICHAEL DELL

If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not making decisions.

CATHERINE COOK

The best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an

itch.

MICHAEL ARRINGTON

Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.

HENRY FORD

The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote

is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.

INGVAR KAMPRAD

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

THOMAS EDISON

Things that annoy me end up fuelling my ideas.

JOSH JAMES

[Of what it takes to be successful:] Patience, drive and very little fear.

JACK NICKELL

It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name

will say it for you.

JASON COHEN

If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken.

GARY VAYNERCHUK

When the need to succeed is as bad as the need to breathe, then you’ll be

successful.

ERIC THOMAS

You could have a million ideas, but they’re all worthless if you don’t get

them done.

LAUREN AMARANTE

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls

and looks like work.

THOMAS EDISON

Always deliver more than expected.

LARRY PAGE

I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful

entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

STEVE JOBS

We’re not very good at knowing what we want, and we are very quick

to say, ‘This sucks.’ That’s where the opportunity lies.

GARY VAYNERCHUK

Openly share and talk to people about your idea. Use their lack of

interest or doubt to fuel your motivation to make it happen.

TODD GARLAND

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.

BILL GATES

Success and profitability are outcomes of focusing on customers and

employees, not objectives.

JACK MA

Chase the vision, not the money.

TONY HSIEH

Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the

core. Don’t embrace the status quo.

HOWARD SCHULTZ

So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the

right thing is probably more important than working hard.

CATERINA FAKE

Always wake up with a smile knowing that today you are going to have

fun accomplishing what others are too afraid to do.

MARK CUBAN

You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something

to live for.

TED TURNER

You have to have more leadership, less management. It’s about getting

stuff done, you can sit around and analyse things forever but while you do that the competition has moved on.

PETER VESTERBACKA

Life is too short to be living somebody else’s dream.

HUGH HEFNER

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and

falling over.

RICHARD BRANSON

We live in a world where you’re not being eaten by a lion when you fail,

you just have to get another job.

MICHAEL ARRINGTON

There is no finish line. So love the journey.

DAVID WEEKLY

You have to be ready for hard work and frugal spending to get the idea

off the ground.

GARRETT CAMP

The way to get started is to quit talking and start doing.

WALT DISNEY

When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for people telling you

that you are nuts.

LARRY ELLISON

Whatever you’re thinking, think bigger.

TONY HSIEH

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off

the goal.

HENRY FORD

Your reputation is more important than your pay check, and your

integrity is worth more than your career.

ANGELO SOTIRA

There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everybody in the

company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

SAM WALTON

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more

intelligently.

HENRY FORD

Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is.

MARK CUBAN

You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.

REID HOFFMAN

Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.