Entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs, Jack Ma, Jeff Bezos and other are the source of energy for other entrepreneurs who have just started or are facing touch time. These big names not only inspire by their work but also by their words. They have said various things on various big conferences and events. All those statements are now know as quotes by them. In this post we are listing few quotes from entrepreneurs:
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
– Vince Lombardi, American football player, coach, and executive
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, 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, Co-Founder, Apple
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
– Steve Jobs, Co-Founder, Apple
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
– Steve Jobs. Co-Founder, Apple
It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
– Bill Gates, Microsoft Founder and former CEO
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
– Bill Gates, Microsoft Founder and former CEO
One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you.
– Jeff Bezos, Amazon Founder and CEO
If you double the number of experiments you do per year you’re going to double your inventiveness.
-Jeff Bezos, Amazon Founder and CEO
It doesn’t matter if I failed. At least I passed the concept on to others. Even if I don’t succeed, someone will succeed.
– Jack Ma, Founder and Executive Chairman of Alibaba Group
You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.
– Jack Ma, Founder and Executive Chairman of Alibaba Group
Today is cruel. Tomorrow is crueller. And the day after tomorrow is beautiful.
– Jack Ma, Founder and Executive Chairman of Alibaba Group
Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.
– Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook
The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks
– Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook
Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.
– Michael Dell, Dell Chairman and CEO
The way to get started is to quit talking and start doing.
–Walt Disney, Co-founder of Disney
User experience is everything. It always has been, but it’s undervalued and underinvested in. If you don’t know user-centered design, study it. Hire people who know it. Obsess over it. Live and breathe it. Get your whole company on board.
– Evan Williams, Co-Founder of Twitter
Always deliver more than expected.
–Larry Page, Co-Founder of Google
You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.
–Richard Branson, Virgin Group Founder
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
Whether you think you can, or think you can’t — you’re right.
– Henry Ford, Ford Motor Company Founder
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 and CEO
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
– Albert Einstein
Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
The very first company I started failed with a great bang. The second one failed a little bit less, but still failed. The third one, you know, proper failed, but it was kind of okay. I recovered quickly. Number four almost didn’t fail. It still didn’t really feel great, but it did okay. Number five was PayPal.
– Max Levchin, former CTO of PayPal
So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.
– Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr