62 Quotes That Inspired Me To Start A Business

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

“You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.””

“The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.”

“Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.”

“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.”

“Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.”

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

“If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.”

“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.”

“Every time we launch a feature, people yell at us.”

“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.”

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

“Always deliver more than expected.”

“You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.”

“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.”

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that other throw at him.”

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”

“The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.”

“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”

“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.”

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.”

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”

“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. ”

“It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.”

“Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

“Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and it annoys the pig. ”

“Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. ”

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

“Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”

“The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.”

“If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.”

“Goals are like magnets. They’ll attract the things that make them come true.”

“Do not wait; the time will never be “just right.” Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.”

“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.”

“When I was young, I observed that nine out of 10 things I did were failures, so I did 10 times more work.”

“One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.”

“The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort. ”

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.”

“And when things start to happen, don’t worry. Don’t stew. Just go right along. You’ll start happening too.”

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”

“The secret of business, especially these days, is to focus relentlessly on your unfair advantage – the thing you do that others don’t.”

“You can’t be successful in business without taking risks. It’s really that simple.”

“Obsess over how much you can give with your time rather than how little of your time you can give. ”

“You can’t be half brave. You can’t fly on the ground. You have to shift from “should” or “someday” or “going to” and do something.”

“In order for you to profit from your mistakes, you have to get out and make some.”

“The difference in winning and losing is most often… not quitting.”

“But everyone doesn’t deserve their own audience. That’s something that’s earned.”

“There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you’ve been in the business. ”

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”

“People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.”

“Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.”

“What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! ”