Whether you’re an early stage start-up, growing at a success rate that you’ve never dreamt, or just contemplating making the leap to entrepreneurship, we all need a little inspiration. Entrepreneurs who follow their dreams and are driven by passion can have bad days too. We’re sure these 45 quotes will power you through to bring out your best.

1. Forty-Five
Inspiring Quotes for
Startups

2. “The best way to
predict the future is
to create it.”
- Alan Kay, GUI
pioneer and
computer scientist

3. “A lot of times,
people don’t know
what they want
until you show it to
them.”
- Steve Jobs, Co-
founder of Apple

4. “Connect, create
meaning, make a
difference, matter,
be missed.”
- Seth Godin,
marketer and best-
selling author

5. “Always deliver
more than
expected.”
- Larry Page, co-
founder of
Google

6. "You can't use up
creativity. The more
you use, the more
you have."
- Maya Angelou,
world renowned
poet and activist

7. “Nine out of ten
businesses fail; so I
came up with a
foolproof plan —
create ten
businesses.”
- Robert Kiyosaki,
author and
investor

8. "You miss 100
percent of the shots
you don't take."
- Wayne Gretzky,
world’s greatest
hockey player

9. “Your brand is what
people say about
you when you are
not in the room.”
- Jeff Bezos,
Founder of
Amazon

10. “If everything seems
under control, you’
re just not going
fast enough.”
- Mario Andretti,
legendary race car
driver

11. “Make your product
easier to buy than
your competition, or
you will find your
customers buying
from them, not you”
- Mark Cuban,
Serial entrepreneur

12. “It’s much easier to
double your business
by doubling your
conversion rate than
by doubling your
traffic.”
- Jeff Eisenberg,
entrepreneur

13. “Success is a lousy
teacher. It seduces
smart people into
thinking they can’t
lose.”
- Bill Gates, co-
founder of Microsoft

14. “Stop sketching,
start building.”
- Dennis Crowley,
founder of
Foursquare

15. “The only way of
finding the limits of
the possible is by
going beyond them
into the impossible.”
- Arthur C. Clarke,
legendary sci-fi
writer

16. “If plan “A” fails —
remember you have
25 letters left.”
- Chris Guillebeau,
author and
entrepreneur

17. “You can’t learn in
school what the
world is going to do
next year.”
- Henry Ford,
Founder of Ford
Company

18. “Chase the vision,
not the money; the
money will end up
following you.”
- Tony Hsieh,
Zappos CEO

19. “The way to get
started is to quit
talking and begin
doing.”
- Walt Disney, Co-
Founder Walt
Disney Co.

20. “Ideas are easy.
Implementation is
hard.”
- Guy Kawasaki,
Alltop Co-Founder
and Entrepreneur

21. “The secret to
successful hiring is
this: look for the
people who want to
change the world.”
- Marc Benioff,
Salesforce CEO

22. “Any time is a good
time to start a
company.”
- Ron Conway,
Noted Startup
Investor, SV Angel

23. “We all die. The goal
isn't to live forever,
the goal is to create
something that
will.”
- Chuck Palahniuk,
Author of “Fight
Club”

24. “When you cease to
dream you cease to
live.”
- Malcolm Forbes,
Publisher of Forbes
Magazine

25. “You don’t learn to
walk by following
rules. You learn by
doing, and by
falling over.”
- Sir Richard
Branson, Business
magnate

26. “Some people dream
of success... while
others wake up and
work hard at it.”
- Mark Zuckerberg,
Founder of
Facebook

27. “If you are not
embarrassed by the
first version of your
product, you’ve
launched too late.”
- Reid Hoffman,
LinkedIn Co-Founder
and Venture
Capitalist

28. “Focus on the long
term, and always do
what’s right to grow
the company and not
make short-term
decisions. Outlast
everyone. ”
- Adam D’Angelo, Co-
founder and CEO Quora

29. “One can get
anything if he is
willing to help
enough others get
what they want.”
- Zig Ziglar,
Motivational
Speaker and Author

30. “Every time we
launch a feature,
people yell at us.”
- Angelo Sotira,
DeviantART co-
founder

31. “Don’t worry about
people stealing your
design work. Worry
about the day they
stop.”
- Jeffrey Zeldman, A
List Apart Publisher

32. “The value of an
idea lies in the using
of it.”
- Thomas Edison,
Co-founder of
General Electric

33. “Get five or six of
your smartest
friends in a room
and ask them to
rate your idea.”
- Mark Pincus,
Zynga CEO

34. “The best startups
generally come
from somebody
needing to scratch
an itch.”
- Michael Arrington,
TechCrunch founder
and co-editor

35. “The last 10% it
takes to launch
something takes as
much energy as the
first 90%.”
- Rob Kalin, Etsy
founder

36. “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

37. “I try not to make
any decisions that I’
m not excited
about.”
- Jake Nickell,
Threadless founder
and CEO

38. “See things in the
present, even if they
are in the future.”
- Larry Ellison,
Oracle co-founder

39. “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

40. “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

41. “Risk more than
others think is safe.
Dream more than
others think is
practical.”
- Howard Schultz,
Starbucks CEO

42. “We are really
competing against
ourselves, we have
no control over how
other people
perform.”
- Pete Cashmore,
Mashable founder
and CEO

43. “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

44. “Trust your
instincts.”
- Estee Lauder,
Estee Lauder
founder

45. “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

46. “To any
entrepreneur: if you
want to do it, do it
now. If you don’t,
you’re going to
regret it.”
- Catherine Cook,
MyYearbook

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