Top 200 Startup Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.”

— Steve Blank

102. “Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur. Doing things differently and solving problems with new, innovative and fresh approaches are the very reason many start-ups are able to compete and sometimes outpace the established market leaders.”

— Richard Branson

103. “Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you.”

— Mark Cuban

104. “Do not wait. The time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.”

— Napoleon Hill

105. “My motivation for all my companies has been to be involved in something that I thought would have a significant impact on the world.”

— Elon Musk

106. “Start before you’re ready.”

— Steven Pressfield

107. “If you want to turn a vision into reality, you have to give 100% and never stop believing in your dream.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

108. “Move fast, take risks. It’s okay to try big things. You’re better off trying something and having it not work, than not having done anything at all.”

— Mark Zuckerberg

109. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

— Steve Jobs

110. “A pivot is a change in strategy without a change in vision.”

— Eric Ries

111. “The perfect time to start something never arrives. Start now!”

— T. Harv Eker

112. “What valuable company is nobody building?”

— Peter Thiel

113. “To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.”

— Derek Sivers

114. “Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service.”

— Peter F. Drucker

115. “Sales Cure All. Know how your company will make money and how you will actually make sales.”

— Mark Cuban

116. “Work hard, have fun and make history.”

— Jeff Bezos

117. “Competition is overrated. In practice it is quite destructive and should be avoided wherever possible. Much better than fighting for scraps in existing markets is to create and own new ones.”

— Peter Thiel

118. “When you feel like quitting think about why you started.”

— Anonymous

119. “When 99% of people doubt your idea, you’re either gravely wrong or about to make history.”

— Scott Belsky

120. “No, I don’t ever give up. I’d have to be dead or completely incapacitated.”

— Elon Musk

121. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

— Thomas A. Edison

122. “Follow your heart and your intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

— Steve Jobs

123. “There is no substitute for hard work.”

— Thomas A. Edison

124. “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

— Steve Jobs

125. “Sometimes life’s going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.”

— Steve Jobs

126. “Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.”

— William Arthur Ward

127. “Hustle is the most important word – EVER.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

128. “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”

— Richard Branson

129. “To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”

— Bruce Lee

130. “There’s a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.”

— Elon Musk

131. “Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.”

— Napoleon Hill

132. “If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later!”

— Richard Branson

133. “All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”

— Brian Tracy

134. “Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.”

— Anonymous

135. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”

— Zig Ziglar

136. “Great companies are built on great products.”

— Elon Musk

137. “Remember why you started, remember where you’re headed, think of how great it will be to get there, and keep going.”

— Ralph Marston

138. “The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”

— Thomas A. Edison

139. “I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success. Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.”

— Kobe Bryant

140. “If it is to be, it is up to me.”

— William H. Johnsen

141. “Always asked, ‘What’s the key to success?’ The key is, there is no key. Be humble, hungry, and always be the hardest worker in the room.”

— Dwayne Johnson

142. “Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.”

— Les Brown

143. “A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action makes your dreams come true.”

— Greg Reid

144. “Everything begins with an idea.”

— Earl Nightingale

145. “The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.”

— Denis Waitley

146. “What ever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again and they will want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do.”

— Walt Disney

147. “When I started SpaceX I thought that the most likely outcome was failure. And I think to have any other expectation would have been irrational.”

— Elon Musk

148. “You’ve got to find what you love.”

— Steve Jobs

149. “Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.”

— Elon Musk

150. “Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson