A collection of quotes on entrepreneurship for those times when you need some inspiration

2. True innovation is
coming up with a
product that the
customer didn’t even
know they needed.
J. Paul Getty
American Industrialist

3. Chase the vision, not the money,
the money will end up following
you
Tony Hsiesh
Co-founder, Zappos

4. Don’t spend so much of
time trying to choose the
perfect opportunity, that
you miss the right
opportunity
Michel Dell
Founder Dell

5. Running a start-up is
like eating glass. You just
start to like the taste of
your own blood.
Sean Parker
Famous Entrepreneur

6. 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

7. 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
Photographer and entrepreneur

8. The one thing that I think is critical in the
entrepreneurial spirit is that it’s all attitude. If
you think you can, then you’re half way there. If
you say, ‘I can’t,’ then you’re defeated
Debbi Fields
Founder, Mrs. Fields Cookies

9. It’s hard to do a really good
job on anything you don’t
think about in the shower.
Paul Graham
YCombinator co-founder

10. Best startups generally come from
somebody needing to scratch an
itch.
Michael Arrington
TechCrunch founder and co-editor

11. Every day that we
spent not improving
our products was a
wasted day
Joel Spolsky
Stack Overflow co-founder

12. Behold the turtle; he
makes progress only
when he sticks his
neck out
Bruce Levin
Have to check

13. Your most unhappy
customers are your
greatest source of
learning
Bill Gates
Microsoft co-founder

14. An entrepreneur tends
to bite off a little more
than he can chew hoping
he’ll quickly learn how to
chew it.
Roy Ash
Co-founder of Litton Industries

15. Entrepreneurship is living a few
years of your life like most
people won’t, so you can spend
the rest of your life like most
people can’t
Anonymous
Very Well Said

16. So many of our dreams at
first seem impossible, then
seem improbable, and then,
when we summon the will,
they soon seem inevitable
Christopher Reeve
American actor, director, producer, writer,
and lobbyis

17. Entrepreneurial profit is the
expression of the value of what
the entrepreneur contributes to
production
Joseph A. Schumpeter
An American Economist

18. The true
entrepreneur is a
doer, not a dreamer
Nolan Bushnell
Founder of Atari and Chuck E

19. 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.
Reed Hastings
CEO of Netflix

20. There Is No Elevator To
Success, You Have To
Take The Stairs
Author unknown
One of the Best

21. If you do build a great
experience, customers
tell each other about
that. Word of mouth is
very powerful
Jeff Bezos
CEO of Amazon

22. People often say
that motivation
doesn’t last. Well,
neither does
bathing – that’s
why we
recommend it daily
Zig Ziglar
Best-selling author and motivational
speaker

23. Business opportunities are like buses, there’s
always another one coming
Zig Ziglar
Best-selling author and motivational
speaker

24. There is only one thing
that makes a dream
impossible to achieve:
the fear of failure
Paulo Coelho
The Brazilian author

25. An entrepreneur
without funding is a
musician without an
instrument
Robert A. Rice Jr
Author of MMO Evolution

26. Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll
the dice with their money or reputation on
the line in support of an idea or enterprise.
They willingly assume responsibility for the
success or failure of a venture and are
answerable for all its facets
Victor Kiam
Owner of Remington Products

27. You must fall in love with what you do,
because being an entrepreneur is a lot of hard
work, and overcoming a lot of adversity.
Ken Field
Real Estate Magnate

28. The most valuable thing you can make is a
mistake – you can’t learn anything from being
perfect
Adam Osborne
American Entrepreneur

29. The vision must be followed
by the venture. It is not
enough to stare up the steps
– we must step up the
stairs
Vance Hayner
Christian Writer

30. Quality is the best business
plan John Lasseter
Pixar Chief Creative Officer

31. The road to success
is always under
construction
Arnold Palmer
American professional golfer

32. When you find an idea
that you just can’t stop
thinking about, that’s
probably a good one to
pursue
Josh James
Omniture CEO and co-founder

33. The winning strategy in any
start-up business is, 'Think
big but start small
Carmen Busquets
Venezuelan Entrepreneur

34. Anyone with a great product to sell
should never criticize competing products.
Your product should sell on its own merit.
Consumers want the best of the best, not
the best of a bad situation
Steve Jobs
Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.

35. Anyone with a great product to sell
should never criticize competing products.
Your product should sell on its own merit.
Consumers want the best of the best, not
the best of a bad situation
Steve Jobs
Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.

36. Courage doesn’t always roar.
Sometimes courage is the
quiet voice at the end of the
day saying, “I will try again
tomorrow
Mary Anne Radmacher
An artist, an author and an Apronary

37. A journey of a thousand miles
begins with a single step
Chinese Proverb
Very True

38. It's really rare for people to have a successful
start-up in this industry without a breakthrough
product.
I'll take it a step further. It has to be a
radical product. It has to be something where,
when people look at it, at first they say, 'I don't
get it, I don't understand it. I think it's too
weird, I think it's too unusual.'
Marc Andreessen
Founder, Netscape

39. About half of what separates
the successful entrepreneurs
from the non-successful ones
is pure perseverance
Steve Jobs
Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.

40. Don’t wait for your ship to
come in – swim out to it!
Cathy Hopkins
Author

41. Entrepreneurship
is the last refuge
of the trouble
making individual
Natalie Clifford Barney
Playwright, poet and novelist