Whether you’re in the early stages of your
start-up or looking for some inspiration to
keep going, we’ve compiled 101 kickass
quotes for entrepreneurs. Remember
when starting your own company, it’s not
a sprint, it’s a marathon.
1. “Your reputation is more important
than your paycheck, and your
integrity is worth more than your
career.” — Ryan Freitas, About.me co-
founder Click to Tweet
2. “Every time we launch a feature,
people yell at us.” —Angelo Sotira,
deviantART co-founder Click to Tweet
3. “Be undeniably good. No marketing
effort or social media buzzword can
be a substitute for that.” —Anthony
Volodkin, Hype Machine founder
Click to Tweet
4. “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 Click
to Tweet
5. “If you can’t feed a team with two
pizzas, it’s too large.” —Jeff Bezos,
Amazon founder and CEO Click to
Tweet
6. “Don’t worry about people stealing
your design work. Worry about the
day they stop.” —Jeffrey Zeldman, A
List Apart Publisher Click to Tweet
7. “Chase the vision, not the money, the
money will end up following you.” —
Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO Click to
Tweet
8. “The value of an idea lies in the using
of it.” —Thomas Edison, General
Electric Co-founder Click to Tweet
9. “Make every detail perfect and limit
the number of details to perfect.” —
Jack Dorsey, Twitter co-founder Click
to Tweet
10. “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 Click to
Tweet
11. “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 Click to
Tweet
12. “Always look for the fool in the deal.
If you don’t find one, it’s you.” —
Mark Cuban, AXS TV chairman and
entrepreneur Click to Tweet
13. “It’s not about ideas. It’s about
making ideas happen.” —Scott Belsky,
Behance co-founder Click to Tweet
14. “There’s nothing wrong with staying
small. You can do big things with a
small team.” —Jason Fried, 37signals
founder Click to Tweet
15. “Don’t worry about failure; you only
have to be right once.” —Drew
Houston, Dropbox founder and CEO
Click to Tweet
16. “Get five or six of your smartest
friends in a room and ask them to
rate your idea.” —Mark Pincus, Zynga
CEO Click to Tweet
17. “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 Click to Tweet
18. “Fail often so you can succeed
sooner.” —Tom Kelley, Ideo partner
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19. “Nothing works better than just
improving your product.” —Joel
Spolsky, Stack Overflow co-founder
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20. “It’s not that we need new ideas, but
we need to stop having old ideas.” —
Edwin Land, Polaroid co-founder
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21. “We are currently not planning on
conquering the world.” —Sergey Brin,
Google co-founder Click to Tweet
22. “Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off
potential competitors.” —Chris Dixon,
Andreesen Horowitz investor Click to
Tweet
23. “Don’t try to be original, just try to be
good.” —Paul Rand, Graphic Designer
Click to Tweet
24. “It’s hard to do a really good job on
anything you don’t think about in the
shower.” —Paul Graham, YCombinator
co-founder Click to Tweet
25. “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 Click to Tweet
26. “Entrepreneur is someone who has a
vision for something and a want to
create.” —David Karp, Tumblr
founder and CEO Click to Tweet
27. “Best startups generally come from
somebody needing to scratch an itch.”
—Michael Arrington, TechCrunch
founder and co-editor Click to Tweet
28. “I don’t think an economic slump will
hurt good ideas.” —Rob Kalin, Etsy
founder Click to Tweet
29. “The last 10% it takes to launch
something takes as much energy as
the first 90%.” —Rob Kalin, Etsy
founder Click to Tweet
30. “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
Click to Tweet
31. “Ideas are easy. Implementation is
hard.” —Guy Kawasaki, Alltop co-
founder and entrepreneur Click to
Tweet
32. “Every day that we spent not
improving our products was a wasted
day.” —Joel Spolsky, Stack Overflow
co-founder Click to Tweet
33. “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 Click to Tweet
34. “Stay self-funded as long as possible.”
—Garrett Camp, founder of Expa,
Uber and StumbleUpon Click to Tweet
35. “Timing, perseverance, and ten years
of trying will eventually make you
look like an overnight success.” —Biz
Stone, Twitter co-founder Click to
Tweet
36. “The only thing worse than starting
something and failing… is not starting
something.” —Seth Godin, Squidoo
founder, author and blogger Click to
Tweet
37. “When I’m old and dying, I plan to
look back on my life and say ‘wow,
that was an adventure,’ not ‘wow, I
sure felt safe.’ " —Tom Preston-
Werner, Github co-founder Click to
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38. “Turn a perceived risk into an asset."
—Aaron Patzer, Mint founder Click to
Tweet
39. “Anything that is measured and
watched, improves.” —Bob Parsons,
GoDaddy founder Click to Tweet
40. “Fortunes are built during the down
market and collected in the up
market.” —Jason Calacanis, LAUNCH
Ticker founder Click to Tweet
41. “No more romanticizing about how
cool it is to be an entrepreneur. It’s a
struggle to save your company’s life –
and your own skin – every day of the
week.” —Spencer Fry, CarbonMade co-
founder Click to Tweet
42. “The secret to successful hiring is
this: look for the people who want to
change the world." —Marc Benioff,
Salesforce CEO Click to Tweet
43. “I try not to make any decisions that
I’m not excited about.” —Jake Nickell,
Threadless founder and CEO Click to
Tweet
44. “See things in the present, even if
they are in the future.” —Larry
Ellison, Oracle co-founder Click to
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45. “If you’re going to put your product
in beta – put your business model in
beta with it.” —Joe Kraus, Google
Ventures partner Click to Tweet
46. “You can’t make anything viral, but
you can make something good.” —
Peter Shankman, HARO founder Click
to Tweet
47. “It’s more effective to do something
valuable than to hope a logo or name
will say it for you.” —Jason Cohen,
Smart Bear Software founder Click to
Tweet
48. “Don’t worry about funding if you
don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to
start a business than ever.” —Noah
Everett, Twitpic founder Click to
Tweet
49. “Ideas are commodity. Execution of
them is not.” —Michael Dell, Dell
chairman and CEO Click to Tweet
50. “Data beats emotions.” —Sean Rad,
Adly and Tinder founder Click to
Tweet
51. “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 Click
to Tweet
52. “You don’t need to have a 100-person
company to develop that idea.” —
Larry Page, Google co-founder Click to
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53. “A ‘startup’ is a company that is
confused about – 1. What its product
is. 2. Who its customers are. 3. How
to make money.”—Dave McClure,
500Startups co-founder Click to Tweet
54. “If you are not embarrassed by the
first version of your product, you’ve
launched too late.” —Reid Hoffman,
LinkedIn co-founder Click to Tweet
55. “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 Click
to Tweet
56. “Before dreaming about the future or
marking plans, you need to articulate
what you already have going for you –
as entrepreneurs do.” —Reid
Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder Click
to Tweet
57. “No matter how brilliant your mind or
strategy, if you’re playing a solo
game, you’ll always lose out to a
team.” —Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-
founder Click to Tweet
58. “The fastest way to change yourself is
to hang out with people who are
already the way you want to be.” —
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder
Click to Tweet
59. “I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars
— I look for 1-foot bars that I can step
over.” —Warren Buffett, Berkshire
Hathaway chairman and CEO Click to
Tweet
60. “In the end, a vision without the
ability to execute it is probably a
hallucination.” —Steve Case, AOL co-
founder Click to Tweet
61. “Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy.
There’s always someone better than
you.” —Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO Click
to Tweet
62. “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, SPANX founder Click to
Tweet
63. “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 Click to
Tweet
64. “As long as you’re going to be
thinking anyway, think big.” —Donald
Trump, The Trump Organization
president Click to Tweet
65. “Whether you think you can, or think
you can’t – you’re right.” —Henry
Ford, Ford Motor Company founder
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66. “Behold the turtle, he makes progress
only when he sticks his neck out.” —
Bruce Levin Click to Tweet
67. “Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know
from my own life that the more I
exercise it the more natural it
becomes to not let my fears run me.”
—Arianna Huffington, The Huffington
Post Media Group president and EIC
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68. “Risk more than others think is safe.
Dream more than others think is
practical.” —Howard Schultz,
Starbucks CEO Click to Tweet
69. “Diligence is the mother of good
luck.” —Benjamin Franklin Click to
Tweet
70. “You shouldn’t focus on why you
can’t do something, which is what
most people do. You should focus on
why perhaps you can, and be one of
the exceptions.” —Steve Case, AOL co-
founder Click to Tweet
71. “The way to get started is to quit
talking and begin doing.” —Walt
Disney, Disney founder Click to Tweet
72. “A person who is quietly confident
makes the best leader.” —Fred
Wilson, Union Square Ventures co-
founder Click to Tweet
73. “We are really competing against
ourselves, we have no control over
how other people perform.” —Pete
Cashmore, Mashable founder and CEO
Click to Tweet
74. “I like to pride myself on thinking
pretty long term, but not that long
term.” —Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook
founder Click to Tweet
75. “Always deliver more than expected.”
—Larry Page, Google co-founder Click
to Tweet
76. “Don’t limit yourself. Many people
limit themselves to what they think
they can do. You can go as far as your
mind lets you. What you believe,
remember, you can achieve.” —Mary
Kay Ash, Mary Kay Cosmetics founder
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77. “You don’t learn to walk by following
rules. You learn by doing and falling
over.” —Richard Branson, Virgin
Group founder Click to Tweet
78. “I never took a day off in my
twenties. Not one.” —Bill Gates,
Microsoft co-founder Click to Tweet
79. “Even if you don’t have the perfect
idea to begin with, you can likely
adapt.” —Victoria Ransom, Wildfire
Interactive co-founder Click to Tweet
80. “High expectations are the key to
everything.” —Sam Walton, Walmart
founder Click to Tweet
81. “Don’t take too much advice. Most
people who have a lot of advice to
give — with a few exceptions —
generalize whatever they did. Don’t
over-analyze everything. I myself
have been guilty of over-thinking
problems. Just build things and find
out if they work.” —Ben Silbermann,
Pinterest founder Click to Tweet
82. “You just have to pay attention to
what people need and what has not
been done.” —Russell Simmons, Def
Jam founder Click to Tweet
83. “You jump off a cliff and you
assemble an airplane on the way
down.” —Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-
founder Click to Tweet
84. “Don’t be afraid to assert yourself,
have confidence in your abilities and
don’t let the bastards get you down.”
—Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg L.P.
founder Click to Tweet
85. “Every time you state what you want
or believe, you’re the first to hear it.
It’s a message to both you and others
about what you think is possible.
Don’t put a ceiling on yourself” —
Oprah Winfrey , Harpo Productions,
OWN founder Click to Tweet
86. “I made a resolve then that I was
going to amount to something if I
could. And no hours, nor amount of
labor, nor amount of money would
deter me from giving the best that
there was in me. And I have done
that ever since, and I win by it. I
know.” —Harland Sanders, KFC
founder Click to Tweet
87. “So often people are working hard at
the wrong thing. Working on the
right thing is probably more
important than working hard.” —
Caterina Fake, Flickr co-founder Click
to Tweet
88. “Trust your instincts.” —Estee Lauder,
Estee Lauder founder Click to Tweet
89. “There’s lots of bad reasons to start a
company. But there’s only one good,
legitimate reason, and I think you
know what it is: it’s to change the
world.” —Phil Libin, Evernote CEO
Click to Tweet
90. “If you’re not a risk taker, you should
get the hell out of business.” —Ray
Kroc, McDonald’s founder Click to
Tweet
91. “Theory is splendid but until put into
practice, it is valueless.” —James Cash
Penney, J.C. Penney founder Click to
Tweet
92. “Sustaining a successful business is a
hell of a lot of work, and staying
hungry is half the battle.” —Wendy
Tan White, MoonFruit co-founder and
CEO Click to Tweet
93. “Your most unhappy customers are
your greatest source of learning.” —
Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder Click
to Tweet
94. “If you define yourself by how you
differ from the competition, you’re
probably in trouble.” —Omar Hamoui,
AdMob co-founder Click to Tweet
95. “Design is not just what it looks like
and feels like. Design is how it
works.” —Steve Jobs, Apple Inc. co-
founder, chairman and CEO Click to
Tweet
96. “If you just work on stuff that you
like and you’re passionate about, you
don’t have to have a master plan with
how things will play out.” —Mark
Zuckerberg, Facebook founder Click
to Tweet
97. “Wonder what your customer really
wants? Ask. Don’t tell.” —Lisa Stone,
BlogHer co-founder and CEO Click to
Tweet
98. “If you’re passionate about something
and you work hard, then I think you
will be successful.”—Pierre Omidyar,
Ebay founder and chairman Click to
Tweet
99. “Get a mentor in the applicable field
if you’re at all unsure of what you’re
looking for.” —Kyle Bragger, Forrst
founder Click to Tweet
100. “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 Click to Tweet
101. “An invention that is quickly
accepted will turn out to be a rather
trivial alteration of something that
has already existed.” —Edwin Land,
Polaroid co-founder Click to Tweet
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Copyright 2013.

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