40 powerhouse entrepreneurship quotes

True innovation is coming up with a product that the customer didn’t even know they needed.

J. Paul Getty

American Industrialist

Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you

Tony Hsiesh

Co-founder, Zappos

Don’t spend so much of time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity

Michel Dell

Founder Dell

Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.

Sean Parker

Famous Entrepreneur

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

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

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

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

Paul Graham

YCombinator co-founder

Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.

Michael Arrington

TechCrunch founder and co-editor

Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day

Joel Spolsky

Stack Overflow co-founder

Behold the turtle; he makes progress only when he sticks his neck out

Bruce Levin

Have to check

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning

Bill Gates

Microsoft co-founder

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

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

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

Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production

Joseph A. Schumpeter

An American Economist

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer

Nolan Bushnell

Founder of Atari and Chuck E

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

There Is No Elevator To Success, You Have To Take The Stairs

Author unknown

One of the Best

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

Jeff Bezos

CEO of Amazon

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

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming

Zig Ziglar

Best-selling author and motivational

speaker

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure

Paulo Coelho

The Brazilian author

An entrepreneur without funding is a musician without an instrument

Robert A. Rice Jr

Author of MMO Evolution

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

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

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect

Adam Osborne

American Entrepreneur

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

Quality is the best business plan John Lasseter

Pixar Chief Creative Officer

The road to success is always under construction

Arnold Palmer

American professional golfer

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

The winning strategy in any start-up business is, 'Think big but start small

Carmen Busquets

Venezuelan Entrepreneur

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.

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.

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

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

Chinese Proverb

Very True

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

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.

Don’t wait for your ship to come in – swim out to it!

Cathy Hopkins

Author

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual

Natalie Clifford Barney

Playwright, poet and novelist