“Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.”
— Nelson Mandela
“I don’t focus on what I’m up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.”
— Venus Williams
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
— Mark Twain
“You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.”
— Reid Hoffman
“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
“Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.”
— Mark Zuckerberg
“You can be comfortable in your career or extraordinary. Which one are you going to be?”
— Sally Hogshead
“The very first company I started failed with a great bang. The second one failed a little bit less, but still failed. The third one, you know, proper failed, but it was kind of okay. I recovered quickly. Number four almost didn’t fail. It still didn’t really feel great, but it did okay. Number five was PayPal.”
— Max Levchin
“Our industry does not respect tradition. It only respects innovation.”
— Satya Nadella
“If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.”
“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”
— Jack London
“Micromanage the process, not the people.”
— Joe Apfelbaum
“The world is not changed by people who sort of care.”
““Make something people want” includes making a company that people want to work for.”
— Sahil Lavingia
“Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.”
— Jack Dorsey
“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
“It’s not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.”
— Edwin H. Land
“The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.”
— Rob Kalin
“Don’t start a company unless it’s an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it’s not an obsession.”
— Mark Cuban
“I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”
“Running a startup is like being punched in the face repeatedly, but working for a large company is like being waterboarded.”
— Paul Graham
“We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.”
— Pete Cashmore
“No business plan survives first contact with customers.”
— Steve Blank
“Eliminate all the unimportant opportunities.”
— Mike Markkula
“Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle and a victory.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“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 different from everybody else.”
— Sara Blakely
“We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
— Thomas A. Edison
“Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.”
— Michael Dell
“If your sole focus is money, you may create a successful startup. But if it’s impact, you can probably create history.”
— Sharad Vivek Sagar
“Real artists ship.”
“80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.”
— Pareto principle
“Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is.”
“Starting your own business is like riding a roller coaster. There are highs and lows and every turn you take is another twist. The lows are really low, but the highs can be really high. You have to be strong, keep your stomach tight, and ride along with the roller coaster that you started.”
— Lindsay Manseau
“Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy.”
— Jason Fried
“The cost of hiring someone bad is so much greater than missing out on someone good.”
— Joe Kraus
“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
— Parkinson's law
“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.”
— Wayne Gretzy
“I think the single most reassuring thing about doing a startup is knowing in advance how difficult it is going to be.”
— Jared Tame
“The most important thing is not to let fundraising get you down. Startups live or die on morale. If you let the difficulty of raising money destroy your morale, it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
“Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week, to avoid working 40 hours a week.”
— Lori Greiner
“Having a great startup pitch has more to do with setting up and running a great company than optimizing some type of sales process to investors. Great investors can see through most tactics that you will use in the pitch process, so the best fundraising strategy is to build a great company.”
— Ken Howery
“If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.”
— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
— Karen Lamb
“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.”
— Michael Jordan
“Believe in your dreams and dream big. And then after you’ve done that, dream bigger.”
— Howard Schultz
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
— Bill Gates
“Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.”
— Ann Landers
“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
— Will Rogers
“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
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