startup-quotes

{ "quotes": [ "“My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.” - Bono", "“When you make something no one hates, no one loves it.” - Tibor Kalman", "“Talk is cheap. Show me the code.” -Linus Torvalds, founder of Linux", "“I don’t like to talk about my dreams. I like to make them happen. I prefer to talk about them when they’re done.” - Diane von Furstenberg", "“When you get an opportunity, you’ve got to go for it wholeheartedly. Not wait in the wings for some imaginary perfect time to materialise.” - Richard Branson, Virgin", "“Where you are is not who you are.” - Ursula Burns, CEO of Xerox", "“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” -Confucius ", "“The electric light did not come from the continuous improvement of candles.” - Oren Harari", "“The price of inaction is far greater than the price of a mistake.” - Meg Whitman, CEO of HP", "“A business is simply an idea to make other people’s lives better.” - Richard Branson, Virgin", "“If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful.” - Charles Barkley", "“If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.” -Larry Page, CEO of Alphabet", "“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.” - Nelson Mandela", "“The aeroplane will never fly.” -Lord Haldane, Minister of War, Britain, 1907", "“Don’t count the days, make the days count.” - Muhammad Ali", "“Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.” - Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and founder of leanin.org", "“The best - maybe the only? - real, direct measure of “innovation” is change in human behaviour.” - Stewart Butterfield, Co-founder of Slack", "“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” - Winston Churchill", "You’re not a cat, you don’t have nine lives. Use this as a reminder to spend the one life you do have on something worthwhile.", "“Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.” - Sergey Brin, Co-founder of Google", "“Don’t be afraid to change the model.” - Reed Hastings, Co-founder and CEO of Netflix", "“Freedom lies in being bold.” - Robert Frost", "“The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.” - Elon Musk, Tesla & SpaceX", "“The value of a company is the sum of the problems you solve together.” -Martin Lorentzon, Co-founder of Spotify", "“There is little success where there is little laughter.” - Andrew Carnegie", "Our latest addition - pencils that won’t appreciate being put down.", "“The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is that you know what you’re doing.” -Drew Houston, Co-founder and CEO of Dropbox", "“I believe that one of life’s greatest risks is never daring to risk.” - Oprah Winfrey", "New design! Never ever forget to kick ass.", "“The strongest of all warriors are these two - Time and Patience.”- Leo Tolstoy, “War and Peace”", "“The core of your business should be built around things that won’t change.Things that people are going to want today and ten years from now.Those are the things you should invest in.” -Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson, Authors of “Rework’", "New design! Step your game u, and do epic things.", "“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, Co-founder of CarbonMade", "“Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.” -Mark Pincus, Co-founder of Zynga", "“Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.” - Jeffrey Zeldman, Founder of A List Apart Magazine", "“Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.” -Mark Twain", "“100% of customers are people. 100% of employees are people.If you don’t understand people, you don’t understand business.” -Simon Sinek", "4 NEW iPhone cases - welcome to the collection!", "“Startups are just a walk in the park.Jurassic park.”", "New poster! Great reminder for the lazy, by Sophia Amoruso.", "“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, Co-founder ofAOL", "“Sustaining a successful business is a hell of a lot of work,and staying hungry is half the battle.” -Wendy Tan White, Co-founder & CEO of MoonFruit", "“I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first,then you can actually make a lot of progress.” - Mark Zuckerberg,Facebook", "“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” -Richard Branson,Virgin Group", "“Well done better than well said.” -Benjamin Franklin", "“Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.” - Robert Collier, American author", "“Adding something is easy; adding value is hard.Sometimes things you think are adding value actually subtract from it. Too much ketchup can ruin the fries.Value is about balance.” -Jason Fried, Co-founder & CEO of Basecamp", "“Make it valuable. Then easy. Then fast. Then pretty.”", "“If everything feels like it’s getting more complicated, that means you're understanding the problem better.” -Anil Dash, Blogger, entrepreneur & technologist", "‪#‎SpaceX‬ inspired we’ve launched a new design!", "“Go towards the pain.” - Noah Kagan, Founder of AppSumo", "“If you are truly innovating, you don’t have a prototype you can refer to.” -Jony Ive, CDO of Apple", "“Success is achieved twice. Once in the mind and the second time in the real world.” -Azim Premji, Investor & Chairman of Wipro Limited", "“Fun is one of the most important- and underrated - ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.” - Richard Branson", "“Be crazy and don’t seek too much advice on what you propose to do.” -Michael Dell, Founder and CEO of Dell Inc.", "“Do the work.Out-work. Out-think. Outsell your expectations. There are no shortcuts.” -Mark Cuban", "“It’s very important to take risks. I think that research is very important, but in the end you have to work from your instinct and feeling and take those risks and be fearless.” -Anna Wintour, Editor-in-chief of Vogue", "“Build your business success around something that you love - something that is inherently and endlessly interesting to you.” -Martha Stewart", "“Accept that some days you are the pigeon and some days you are the statue.” -Scott Adams, Cartoonist", "“Be so good they cant ignore you.” - Steve Martin", "New poster! “Focus on things that are the highest value and do them perfectly.” -Sean Parker, Co-founder of Napster", "“Life is short.Don’t be lazy.” -Sofia Amorosa, Founder of Nasty Gal", "“Doing the right thing is always the right thing.” - Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO of VaynerMedia", "New design! Be obsessed or be average.", "“People don’t buy what you do…They buy why you do it.” -Simon Sinek, author & speaker", "“Successful people find value in unexpected places.” -Peter Thiel, Co-founder of PayPal", "“When bootstrapping, you need to find a team that’s willing to work for nothing and spend their off hours with you.” -Spencer Fry, Founder of Carbonmade", "“In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.” - Seth Godin", "“You say: ‘You! Tell me your story.’ And they start and you go:'Shut up and sit the f- down!’ And if they do, you go: 'You’re not ready.’ Because business is filled with shut-up and sit-the-fuck-down. You got to be able to tell your story in spite of sit-down and shut-the-fuck-up.” -David Fincher, film director", "“Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement.” -James Cash Penney, Founder of J.C.Penney", "New poster! “Ideas don’t work unless you do”", "“I find it’s better to focus on what's in front of you and to keep putting one foot in front of the other.” -Mary-Kate Olsen, actress and businesswoman", "“If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.” - Jack Welch", "“Ideas are shit, execution is the game.” -Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO of VaynerMedia", "“Take the risk or lose the chance.”", "New design! With a quote from the master himself.", "“Know what?Bitches get stuff done.” -Tina Fey, actress and comedian", "“Be obsessed or be average.” - Grant Cardone, Motivational speaker and author", "“Average month as a startup founder:’‘I’m killing it… It’s killing me… I’m killing it… It’s killing me… I’m killing it… ”“ -Paul Judge, Co-Founder of Luma", "“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” - Babe Ruth", "The Three Musketeers - three new travel mugs just added to the collection.", "“What’s a disruptive idea?Building an actual business that investors coming to you, not you chasing them.” -Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO of VaynerMedia", "“Busy isn’t success, it's lack of priority.” -Chase Jarvis, CEO of CreativeLive", "“Life is too short to do mediocre work and it is definitely too short to build shitty things.” -Stewart Butterfield, Co-founder of Flickr & Slack", "“We led with our conviction rather than rational, because rational said it was impossible.” -Daniel Ek, Co-founder of Spotify", "“Launch, see what happens, be embarrassed, and use that launch as a test to see how the market reacts. Validation that there is a market for what you are doing is what is most important.” -Nathan Chan, CEO of Foundry Magazine", "Mega motivating mug. Because we know that size matters. #GetShitDone", "“Innovation is when you put an idea into action” - Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce", "“Work smart. Get things done. No nonsense. Move fast.” -Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube", "“I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It’s always on. There is always someone trying to beat me.” - Mark Cuban", "“It took me years to finally start saying no to things that would take me away from what really needed my attention. No to meetings. No to interviews, and no to extra projects (for extra money).” -Leo Widrich, Co-founder of Buffer", "“Good ideas are always crazy until they’re not.” - Larry Page", "“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” -Thomas Jefferson", "“Loyalty is not won by being first. It is won by being best.” -Stefan Persson, H&M", "“Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.” - Jack Ma, Alibaba", "We’ve got your iPhone covered. Check out our latest product - iPhone 6 / 6+ cases with our most popular designs!", "Have you seen our latest design? “Perfectionism is often an excuse for procrastination”, by Paul Graham", "“A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.” - Michael LeBoeuf,American business author", "“Sales fixes everything.” -Guy Kawasaki", "“As an entrepreneur, I try to push the limits. Pedal to the metal.” - Travis Kalanick, Uber", "“We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.” - Jeff Bezos, Amazon", "“You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.” -Jack Ma, Founder of Alibaba", "“Instead of solving high-profile problems, try to solve something that’s deeply personal to you. Ideally, if you’re an ordinary person and you’ve just solved your problem, you might have solved the problem for millions of people.” -Brian Chesky, Co-founder and CEO of Airbnb", "“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.” - Richard Branson", "“Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.” - Jim Collins, Business Consultant", "“Inside every problem lies an opportunity.” -Robert Kiyosaki, Businessman, Investor & Author", "“Turning your passion into your job is easier than finding a job that matches your passion.” - Seth Godin", "Our latest design with a quote from the amazing Casey Neistat!", "“What helps people, helps business.”- Leo Burnett", "“Crazy is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” -Sophia Amoruso, Founder of Nasty Gal", "“To be in the 1% you have to do what the 99% won’t.” - Noah Kagan,Founder of AppSumo", "We’ve added 5 NEW stickers!", "“Success is not a stop sign.” - Robert Kiyosaki", "“It’s not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not.”- Steve Jobs", "“There are no mistakes, only opportunities.” - Tina Fey", "“Complex ideas are almost always a sign of muddled thinking or a made up problem.” -Sam Altman, Y Combinator", "“If you’re a big-picture guy, you’re not in the picture. Retail is detail.” -James Sinegal, Co-founder & CEO of Costco", "“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.” - Steve Jobs", "“Doing a common thing uncommonly well brings success.” -Henry John Heinz, Founder of the H. J. Heinz Company", "“If you don’t sell,it’s not the product that's wrong, it’s you.” -Estee Lauder, Co-founder of Estee Lauder Companies", "NEW design! An incredibly effective way to get shit done.", "“Only the best is good enough.” -Ole Kirk Christiansen, Founder of LEGO", "“Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.” - Anthony Robbins, motivational speaker and writer", "“Play by the rules, but be ferocious.” - Phil Knight, founder of Nike", "“Fear is the disease. Hustle is the antidote.” - Travis Kalanick, CEO of Uber", "“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.” - Bruce Lee", "“My favorite position is CEO.” - Lauren Conrad, Co-founder of The Little Market", "“In a startup,absolutely nothing happens unless you make it happen.” -Marc Andreessen, Co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz", "NEW design! Play it safe and people will know you… NOT!", "“I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow.” -Marissa Mayer, President & CEO of Yahoo!", "“Inspiration is for amateurs - the rest of us just show up and get to work.” - Chuck Close, Artist", "“We try to solve very complicated problems without letting people know how complicated the problem was.” - Jonathan Ive, Chief design officer of Apple Inc.", "“It’s a good thing that at a startup, being stressed is often balanced by being excited. Otherwise the stress would kill you.” - Sachin Agarwal, Founder of Posterous", "“Don’t worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test…Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap - but it was a revolutionary piece of crap.” -Guy Kawasaki", "“To be successful you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.” -Thomas J. Watson, former CEO of IBM", "‘’You’re better off with kick-ass half than a half-passed whole.’’ -David Heinemeier Hansson, partner at Basecamp", "‘’If you’re not a risk taker,you should get the hell out of business.’’ -Ray Kroc, Founder of McDonald’s", "‘’Understanding people IS NOTa waste of time.’’ -Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook", "Right for the holiday season, we’ve launched a NEW product - Ugly Christmas t-shirts (that are actually pretty neat)!", "‘’The strength of a team is different people with different perspectives.’’ - Steve Case, co-founder of AOL", "‘’A successful product is never done or perfect.’’ - Geoff Teehan, Product Design Director at Facebook", "‘’Ideas are cheap, execution is everything.’’ - Chris Sacca, Investor in Twitter & Uber", "‘’Don’t believe the hype.’’ - Tod Sacerdoti, founder & CEO of BrightRoll Inc.", "‘’The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.’’ -Casey Neistat", "“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” - George Bernard Shaw", "“Making mistakes is the privilege of the active. It is always the mediocre people who are negative, who spend their time proving that they were not wrong.” - Ingvar Kamprad, Founder of IKEA", "‘’Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.’’ - Tim O'Reilly, Founder of O'Reilly Media", "‘’Don’t put it off. Do it now. You don’t know what will happen in three years.’’ -Robin Saitz, CMO, Brainshark", "‘’The biggest barrier to starting a company isn’t ideas, funding or experiences. It’s excuses.’’ - Sarah Lacy, Founder of Pando", "‘’The next big thing is the one that makes the last big thing usable.’’ - Blake Ross, co-creator of Mozilla Firefox", "“Being realistic is the most common path to mediocrity.” - Will Smith", "“Focus on things that are the highest value and do them perfectly.” - Sean Parker, Co-founder of Napster", "“Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.” - Chris Sacca, investor in Twitter and Uber", "“Make products that fit neatly into how humans actually think.” - Phil Libin, Evernote CEO", "“Don’t limit yourself.” - Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay Inc.", "“Start small, think big, and aim somewhere in between.” - Bill Rancic", "“Shatter all fears.” - Robin Sharma", "New design! Do or do not.", "“I love taking an idea… to a prototype and then to a product that millions of people use.” -Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube", "“If you’re prepared, and you know what it takes, it’s not a risk. You just have to figure out how to get there. There is always a way to get there.” - Mark Cuban", "“Any business strategy that can’t be sufficiently explained using only emoji is too complex.” - Aaron Levie, Co-founder & CEO of Box", "“There are no hard times for good ideas.” - Harry Gordon Selfridge, Founder of Selfridge’s Department Store", "“Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.” - Robert Orben", "“The largest opportunities are found in ideas that go against the grain.” -Omar Hamoui, Partner at Sequoia Capital", "New Design!Hard work beats talent. (Because talent isn’t the whole story!)", "“Good is not enough. You’ve got to be great.” - Simon Cowell", "“Details matter, it’s worth waiting to get it right.’‘- Steve Jobs", "“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” - Tim Notke", "“Small ideas can be big.” - Ben Silbermann, Co-founder & CEO of Pinterest", "“Don’t make excuses. Make improvements.” - Tyra Banks", "“Great products sell themselves.” -Kevin Systrom Co-founder and CEO of Instagram", "“Refuse to lower your standards to accommodate those who refuse to raise theirs.’‘", "“You’ve found market price when buyers complain but still pay.” - Paul Graham", "“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” - Steve Jobs", "“Don’t settle for mediocrity; never let good enough be good enough.” -Joel Osteen", "‘’As a startup CEOI slept like a baby.I woke up every 2 hours and cried.’’ -Ben Horowitz", "‘’Build something users love, and spend less than you make.’’ -Paul Graham, co-founder of Y-Combinator", "‘’Fall in love with the problem not the solution.’’ -Uri Levine, co-founder of Waze", "‘’Every problem has a solution. You just have to be creative enough to find it.’’ -Travis Kalanick, co-founder of Uber", "New design!", "‘’It’s not innovation until it gets built.’’- Garry Tan, Partner, Y Combinator", "“When people say, ’‘You’re thinking too big,’'be smart enough not to listen. And when they ask,’'How can you do that?”,look them in the eyes and say, “I’ll figure it out.”“ -Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Alphabet Inc.", "“Projections are just bullshit. They’re just guesses.” - Jason Fried, Founder, 37Signals", "“Entrepreneurs must learn to fail, get knocked down, adjust their plan, and get back up.” -Bob Pavey, Partner at Morgenthaler Ventures", "“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” - Michael Jordan", "“High expectations are the key to everything.” - Sam Walton, Founder of Walmart", "“Success is getting what you want, but happiness is wanting what you get.” - Dale Carnegie", "“Always be executing like you’re 1/10th your size, with goals that are 10x your size.” - Aaron Levie, CEO of Box", "“What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.” – Simon Sinek", "“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray", "“If you’re hitting your marks, that means you didn’t set them high enough.” - President Barack Obama", "“Do or do not. There is no try.” - Yoda", "“Life is not fair, get used to it.” - Bill Gates", "“Change before you have to.” - Jack Welch", "“Comfort is the enemy of achievement.” - Farrah Gray", "“Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.” - Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos", "“The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.” -Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari", "“The job of a CEO is to do 3 things:build the best team,get resources, and communicate the mission.” -Nathan Hubbard, Head of Commerce at Twitter", "“If you’re not doing some things that are crazy, then you’re doing the wrong things.” - Larry Page", "“Option A is not available.So let’s kick the shit out of option B.” -Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook", "“See things in the present even if they are in the future.” - Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle", "“Just because you get funded does not mean you are successful.” - Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures", "“Fail often so you can succeed sooner.” -Tom Kelley, IDEO General Manager", "“I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars - I look for 1-foot bars that I can step over.” - Warren Buffet, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway", "“Whatever it is that you think you want to do - and whatever it is that you think stands between you and that - stop making excuses. You can do anything.” -Katia Beauchamp, co-founder of Birchbox", "“We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.” - Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post", "“Is it scarier to launch your startup now, or wake up in 5 years feeling the regret of not at least trying?” - Mitchell Harper, co-founder of Bigcommerce", "“The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.” - Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce", "“Do what you love and the money will follow.” - Richard Branson", "“Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.” - Seth Godin", "“Good design means never having to say “Click Here.” ’‘-Shawn Leslie, Product Designer at Digital Telepathy", "‘’A brand is no longer what we tell consumer it is, it is what consumers tell each other it is.” - Scott Cook, co-founder of Intuit.", "“Don’t be so focused on building your personal brand that you forget to continue to improve the skills that make that possible.” - Everette Taylor, founder of MilliSense", "“Losers have goals. Winners have systems.” - Scott Adams", "“If you’re competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer focused allows you to be more pioneering.” - Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon", "“Don’t be threatened by people smarter than you.” - Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks", "“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which ones to keep.” - Scott Adams", "“Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.” - Brian Tracy", "“I am thankful for all of those who said ’‘no” to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.“ -Albert Einstein", "“You have to be brutally self-honest and self-aware as you go through this process. We’ve had to change what we’re doing and how we’re doing it so many times during the development of this business. You can’t get stuck in one place.” - David Friedberg, founder ofWeatherbill", "From time tracking to live chat customer service - here are 5 brilliant apps to help your startup grow:", "“It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.” - Steve Jobs", "“A successful business, at its core, is thousands of small decisions made correctly.” -Mitchell Harper, Co-founder of Bigcommerce", "“Everything takes three times longer than it should. Especially the money part.” - Hugh MacLeod, co-founder of Gapingvoid", "“The road to success is always under construction.” - Lily Tomlin", "“It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” - Bill Gates", "“Progress, not perfection.” - Lauris Liberts, Draugiem Group", "“I truly believe that if you take care of your employees, they will take care of your business.” - Richard Branson", "“Working on the wrong thing for a month is equivalent to not showing up to work for a month at all.” - Slava Akhmechet, Co-founder RethinkDB", "“Be humble, but have balls.” - Tine Thygesen, CEO of Colego", "“Don’t start a company unless it’s an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it’s not an obsession.” - Mark Cuban", "“Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.” - Anthony Volodkin, founder of Hype Machine", "“The client may be king but he’s not the art director.” - Von R. Glitschka, designer", "“My advice is flip a coin.If you regret the way it landed, then go with your gut.” -Justin Kan, founder of Justin.tv", "“A marketer having a bad product is like bringing a knife to a gun fight.” - Everette Taylor, founder of MilliSense", "‘’Make your team feel respected, empowered and genuinely excited about the company’s mission.’’ -Tim Westergren, co-founder of Pandora", "‘’The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.'’ -Rob Kalin, co-founder of Etsy", "“Lots of companies don’t succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.” - Larry Page, CEO of Google", "“It takes humility to realize that we don’t know everything, not to rest on our laurels and know that we must keep learning and observing. If we don’t, we can be sure some startup will be there to take our place.” - Cher Wang, CEO of HTC", "“There’s an entrepreneur right now, scared to death, making excuses, saying, ‘It’s not the right time just yet.’ There’s no such thing as a good time. Get out of your garage and go take a chance, and start your business.’‘- Kevin Plank, CEO of Under Armour", "“Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated.” -Paul Rand, designed corporate logos for IBM, UPS, Inc., and Steve Jobs’s NeXT", "“In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.” - David Ogilvy", "“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” - Bill Gates", "“A brilliant idea doesn’t guarantee a successful invention. Real magic comes from a brilliant idea combined with willpower, tenacity, and a willingness to make mistakes.” - Lori Greiner", "“Wonder what customers really want? Ask. Don’t Tell.” - Lisa Stone, BlogHer Co-Founder and CEO", "“It’s not enough that candidates are qualified to work for your startup; they must also believe in your product, because working for a startup is closer to a religion than a way to make a living.” -Guy Kawasaki,Chief evangelist of Canva", "“Success is how well you do what you do when nobody else is looking.” - John Paul DeJoria", "“Know your weaknesses: Knowing your weaknesses is as important as knowing what your strengths are, and even more important as your company grows; hire or have co-founders who are great in areas where you are weak.” - Mark Otero, Founder & CEO of Klicknation", "“People ignore design that ignores people.” - Frank Chimero", "“Change almost never fails because it’s too early. It almost always fails because it’s too late.” - Seth Godin", "Always praise good work. -Sam Altman, Y Combinator", "Doing something that doesn’t end up working > Not doing something because of the fear it won’t work. -Aaron Levie, Box.net", "Every time we launch a feature, people yell at us. - Angelo Sotira, DeviantArt", "“Be really picky with your hiring, and hire the absolute best people you possibly can. People are the most important component of almost every business, and attracting the best talent possible is going to make a huge difference.” Peter Berg, Founder October Three", "Don’t guess. Measure. -Slava Akhmechet, Co-founder RethinkDB", "“The best new ideas live at the boundary between the real world and software.”- Adam MacBeth, hardware specialist, shaped the iPod and Jawbone’s wristbands", "“If you’re doing things right, something will always be a little bit broken. Most importantly, tell everybody that a little bit of chaos is okay.”- Aditya Agarwal, VP of Engineering at Dropbox", "“It is necessary for you to learn from others’ mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.” - Hyman G. Rickover ", " “To create a memorable design you need to start with a thought that’s worth remembering.” - Thomas Manss", "Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of each one the best way you can.- Gary Comer, founder of Land’s End", "If you’re hiring the 400th employee, you would still want that person to be in your original 10. There’s no reason you ever have to relax your standards. People do because of the need for speed and the need for growth, but you don’t have to if you put the right processes in place. -Aaron Levie, Box.net", "A person’s success in life can be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. -Tim Ferriss", "I know it’s stressful being a CEO, but you have to celebrate with your team. Set goals earlier on that you can hit to build the team’s confidence in their ability to achieve them and your ability to properly set them.” Wiley Cerilli, SinglePlatform Founder & CEO", "If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends. -Jeff Bezos", "A lot of the best tech startups are ideas that have been around for years but the time is finally right. — Chris Dixon", "“You have a viable business only if your product is either better or cheaper than the alternatives. If it’s not one or the other, you might make some money at first, but it’s not a sustainable business.\"-Jim Koch, Founder of Boston Beer Co.", "Your organization is no better than the team you put in place around you. It all comes down to the quality of your people. -John Mackey, Founder Whole Foods", "“Be maniacally focused on your customers.”-Jon Beekman, CEO of Man Crates", "I’d rather spend money on things that improve the customer experience than on marketing. We run the warehouse 24-7–it’s not very cheap or efficient, but it allows us to get the shoes out more quickly. We have a 365-day return policy with free shipping both ways. -Tony Hsieh, Zappos", "Marketing is enthusiasm transferred to the customer. -Gregory Ciotti, Content @ Help Scout", "I “fail” probably once a week, maybe even once a day, I just think of them as mistakes, not failures. Most people see the word failure and think “unrecoverable.” Instead, I see failures as mini test results. I tried something, it didn’t work, so let’s gather up what we learned and try again.“-Jim Belosic, CEO of ShortStack", "One key to entrepreneurial success is to get a great group of people around you who believe in your idea.-Richard Branson", "“Make something people want” includes making a company that people want to work for. -Sahil Lavingia, CEO @gumroad", "Back up your position with data. You don’t win arguments by saying, ‘I think.’ You win by saying, 'Let me show you. -Jonathan Rosenberg, Product @ Google", "Hiring bad eggs can impact your ability to hire top talent in the future. -Greg Brockman, Stripe CTO", "“Mistakes will not end your business. If you are nimble and willing to listen to constructive criticism you can excel by learning and evolving.’‘-Meridith Valiando Rojas, co-founder and CEO DigiTour Media", "Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. -Steve Jobs", "“Take your time to think through something and when you’re ready, act fast.\"-Matt Galligan, CEO and co-founder of Circa", "“Great people attract great people. The quality of your team can play a big role in employee happiness.” David Niu, TINYpulse founder and CEO.", "No Plan Survives First Contact With Customers - Steve Blank", "“The worst decision is indecision.”-Ryan Harwood, CEO of PureWow", "Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first. - Angela Ahrendts", "Great teams are the difference between quitting and deciding to go to bat one more time. Cap Watkins, Sr. Product Design Manager at Etsy", "“Don’t burn out. Take care of yourself by getting 8 hours of sleep, eat healthy, and exercise. If you don’t take care of yourself, there’s no way you can take care of your company in the long-term.” Jared Kim,Founder & CEO of Forge", "The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap. -Aaron Levie, Box.net", "Start before you feel ready. -Lauris Liberts, Draugiem Group", "Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you. -Mark Cuban", "Sometimes things are the way they are and can’t be changed, other times it’s because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter. -Aaron Levie, Box.net", "“You need space to try things and create. It takes a long time to recalibrate if you let people pull at you all the time. A lot of stress comes from reacting to stuff. You have to keep a certain guard [up], if you’re a creative person. ” – Pete Cashmore (Founder Of Mashable)", "Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy. — Jason Fried, Basecamp", "If you can do something to get somebody excited — not everybody — but if you can be the best for somebody, then you can win. -Ron Shaich, Panera Bread founder and CEO", "“The only two people who can give you real feedback about your product are people who just purchased it and people who have just canceled.” – Jason Fried", "“My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had. Everyday I’m learning something new.” -Richard Branson", "“Fearlessness is a muscle. The more I exercise it, the less my fears run me.” -Ariana Huffington.", "As an entrepreneur, you have to be OK with failure. If you’re not failing, you’re likely not pushing yourself hard enough. Alexa von Tobel, LearnVest", "Every successful entrepreneur was first an amateur. -Lauris Liberts, Draugiem Group", "The natural state of a start-up is to die; most start-ups require multiple miracles in their early days to escape this fate. -Sam Altman", "Sell. Don’t apologize for it and don’t be afraid to beg with a positive, upbeat attitude. Tell prospects you want their business and you will kick ass once you’ve earned it. Have no shame, pride doesn’t pay the rent.-Tom Gimbel", "“A good job isn’t something you go out and find, it’s something you discover while you’re working.” - Jack Ma", "The ability to write well is one of the most important skills we look for when hiring anyone in a product role.", "“Without data you’re just another person with an opinion.” - W. Edwards Deming", "“It’s not about being the first to market; it’s about being the first to get it right.” -Benny Xian", "You’ll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research. -Aaron Levie", "“The Cost of Being Wrong is Less Than the Cost of Doing Nothing” -Seth Godin", "If someone offers you an amazing opportunity and you’re not sure you can do it, say yes - then learn how to do it later. -Richard Branson", "Ideas are considered generally bad for two very different reasons: (1) so uncommon no one gets it or (2) so common, seems redundant. -Zaid Farooqui", "“The strategy is to first know what you don’t know, the tactic is to grind, and the value is to remember: there are plenty of places to innovate.” -David Friedberg, Founder @ Weatherbill", "One thing I tell startups all the time is that the best way to grow is to make their product better. -Sam Altman, Y Combinator", "Bad shit is coming. It always is in a startup. The odds of getting from launch to liquidity without some kind of disaster happening are one in a thousand. So don’t get demoralized. -Paul Graham, Y Combinator", "“If a picture is worth 1000 words, a prototype is worth 1000 meetings.” —saying at @ideo", "Get the customers first, then build tech. Not the other way around. -Lauris Liberts, Draugiem Group", "Don’t be a lone wolf. Lean on the experience and smarts of your teammates, investors, and mentors to help solve the tough problems and take advantage of the opportunities. SETH BANNON, Amicus", "Much more commonly you launch something, and no one cares. Don’t assume when this happens that you’ve failed. That’s normal for startups. But don’t sit around doing nothing. Iterate. - Paul Graham, Y Combinator", "Pay attention to financial operations from the early days. Make a budget. Seth Bannon, Amicus", "There is no sport as competitive as business. It’s 24 by 7 by 365 by forever. -Mark Cuban", "“The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.” - Edward Phelps", "Scaling is only difficult when you grow your organization like a tower instead of a city. -Jurgen Appelo", "Nearly every company goes through life-threatening moments… it’s so common that there is an acronym for it, WFIO, which stands for ‘We’re Fucked, It’s Over.’ - Ben Horowitz", "“Starting a business is like riding a wave between life and death. If you can hang on long enough, you’re bound to succeed” -Sam Altman, Y Combinator", "Know your core competencies and focus on being great at them. Pay up for people in your core competencies. Get the best. Outside the core competencies, hire people that fit your culture but aren’t as expensive to pay. - Mark Cuban", "Be really simple and don’t stress out about things. A lot of crap happens. You can’t make a stressful situation more stressful. -Adora Cheung, Homejoy", "“Survival is a growth strategy.” Ian Hogarth, Songkick", "Ignore luck. Just work really hard. -Adora Cheung, Homejoy", "You’re either “making” a market or “disrupting” a market. “Entering” a market is usually the wrong way to go. -Brian Halligan, CEO @ HubSpot", "“Eventually, after a couple of years, Stripe started to become an overnight success.” Patrick Collison, Stripe", "Start out by making 100 users really happy, rather than a lot more users only a little happy. -Paul Buchheit", "Data beats emotions.- Sean Rad, Founder, Ad.ly", "“Keep our competitors focused on us, while we stay focused on the customer” - Jeff Bezos, CEO Amazon.com", "A lot of ideas are going to fail. And that’s ok. -Lauris Liberts, Draugiem Group", "Pushing that last 5% harder than your competitor is so often the difference between success and failure.", "“Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.” ― Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art", "Growth solves (nearly) all problems - Sam Altman, Y Combinator", "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", "Never compromise user trust for user growth. -Micah Baldwin, Blurb.", "The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out. -Aaron Levie, Box.net", "Keep salaries low and equity high. Keep the organization as flat as you can.-Sam Altman", "“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” - Warren Buffett", "“Cold calling is something that’s pretty critical, and something you can’t be afraid to do if you’re dealing with customers. You have to do it to understand what your customers want.” -David Friedberg, Founder @ Weatherbill", "Sometimes the best way to get your eggs from point A to point B is to put them all in one basket and take really good care of that basket.", "A user interface is a joke. If you have to explain it, it’s not that good.", "Product comes first. Selling a product everyone wants is easy and rewarding. Selling a product no one wants is an unpleasant game of numbers. -Slava Akhmechet, Co-founder RethinkDB", "429 of the original Fortune 500 companies (1955) are no longer is business today. Adapt or die.", "Innovation is the only sustainable competitive advantage a company can have. -David Friedberg, Founder @ Weatherbill", "Don’t build something that already exists. Customers won’t buy it just because it’s yours. -Slava Akhmechet, Co-founder RethinkDB", "“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", "Product comes first. If people love your product, the tiniest announcements will get attention. If people don’t love your product, no amount of marketing effort will help. -Slava Akhmechet, Co-founder RethinkDB", "We also get thousands of suggestions. The default answer is always no.- Jason Fried", "My takeaway from this has been to always double check to make sure you’re not designing toward your own biases instead of what’s best for your product and users - Cap Watkins, Design Lead at Etsy. Formerly at Amazon, Formspring and Zoosk.", "“Customer service shouldn’t be just a department; it should be the entire company” -Tony Hsieh", "You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea. - Larry Page", "Don’t wait for the right moment to start the business - it never arrives. Start whenever. Now. -Lauris Liberts", "Start where you are.Use what you have.Do what you can.-Arthur Ashe", "We’re enamored with the concept that there’s “always a price.” But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it. -Aaron Levie, Box.net", "Have empathy, gratitude and respect for every position in the company. Kat Cole, Cinnabon President", "No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don’t have a sufficiently good product. - Sam Altman", "‘The only time you don’t fail is the last time you try something and it actually works - Charles Kettering", "“Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.” - Steve Jobs", "If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough. -Elon Musk", "When you’ve got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,0001? -Mark Cuban", "Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high. -Reed Hastings, CEO Netflix", "Don’t assume your customers are as knowledgeable as you are. -Bryan Eisenberg", "If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likable person: respectful, generous and helpful. - Alan Cooper", "Whenever you get stuck, go meet with your customers. -Joe Zadeh, Product @ Airbnb", "The secret to being wrong isn’t to avoid being wrong. The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn’t fatal. -Seth Godin", "Any product that needs a manual to work is broken. -Elon Musk", "“Never underestimate the power of someone with a mobile device who’s currently being pissed off by your business.” -Peter Shankman", "You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three. -Sam Altman", "“Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning, because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset.” - Sara Blakely, Spanx Founder", "Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. - Seth Godin", "“I try not to make any decisions that I’m not excited about.” - Jake Nickell, Threadless founder/CEO", "When you are building something revolutionary, you may look delusional to those around you. - Lauris Liberts, Draugiem Group", "If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.” Jeff Bezos, Amazon", "If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.“ - Elon Musk, Tesla & SpaceX Founder", "If you’re not working on your best idea right now, you’re doing it wrong. - David Heinemeier Hansson, Basecamp", "Everyone starting a startup for the first time is scared, and everyone feels like a bit of an imposter. - Sam Altman", "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", "I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. -Dudley Field Malone", "“Entrepreneur is just French for ‘has ideas, does them’.” – Alexis Ohanian, Reddit Founder", "“Hard work is always the difference between opportunities” —Eric Rewitzer, Co-Owner of 3Fish Studios", "What you leave out is just as important as what you leave in.", "“The risk is not in doing something that feels risky. The risk is in not doing something that feels risky.” - Andy Dunn, Bonobos Founder", "“It’s not about the amount of wealth you can accumulate, it’s about the impact and change you can create.” - Neil Blumenthal, Warby Parker Founder and Co-CEO", "“Find your one thing and do that one thing better than anyone else.” - Jason Goldberg, Fab Founder", "Most of entrepreneurship is differentiating between good-sounding dumb ideas and dumb-sounding good ideas. -Aaron Gotwalt", "Find the most talented person in the room and if it’s not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. try to be helpful.-Harold Ramis", "“Don’t be a complainer; make things better, let it go, or take action to make it better.” - Tina Roth Eisenberg, Tattly Founder", "“Chase the vision, not the