Sunday, September 22, 2013

15 Important Quotes For Entrepreneurs and Start ups

Quotes are loved by pretty much everyone, They are meaningful, memorable, and tweetable. There are thousands of them out there, but everyone has their own favourites that resonate with them.  We thought we'd share a few of our personal favourites as a start up:

On Starting Up…

"You need three things to create a successful start up: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible." – Paul Graham

"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, Carbonmade

"Boot strapping is a way to do something about the problems you have without letting someone else give you permissions to do them." – Tom Preston-Werner, Github

"Don't worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop." – Jeffrey Zeldman, A List Apart

"A product needs to be sufficiently innovative to distinguish itself from the pack, but not so forward thinking to alienate the user." – Reid Hoffman, Linkedin

On Pushing Forward…

"The world hates change, yet is the only thing that has brought progress." – Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

"Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard." – Guy Kawasaki

"Don't try to solve the entire problem on day one." – Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures

"You cannot be afraid to fail, so do not wait too long to pull the trigger with a product launch." – Matt Brezina

"You have to be ready for hard work and frugal spending to get the idea off the ground." – Garrett Camp, Stumbleupon

On Success and Failure…

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." -Winston Churchill

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." -Bill Cosby

"The only thing worse than starting something and failing…is not starting something." – Seth Godin

"Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success." – Biz Stone, Twitter

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other?-  Abraham Lincoln

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