1. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ 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, Founder, Apple
2. “I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.” – Harland Sanders, Founder, KFC
3. “Follow the cream of the crop in your area of online expertise and learn from them. Network with them.” - Mark Forrester, Co- founder, WooThemes
4. “You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.” - Steve Jobs, Co-founder, Apple
5. “Success and profitability are outcomes of focusing on customers and employees, not objectives.” - Jack Ma, Lead Founder, Alibaba
6. “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.” - Richard Branson, Founder, Virgin
7. “Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.” - Jack Dorsey, Co-founder, Twitter
8. “Life is too short to be living somebody else’s dream.” - Hugh Hefner, Founder, Playboy
9. “I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.” - Bill Gates, Co-founder, Microsoft
10. “Openly share and talk to people about your idea. Use their lack of interest or doubt to fuel your motivation to make it happen.” - Todd Garland, Founder, BuySellAds
11. “Even if you don’t have the perfect idea to begin with, you can likely adapt.” - Victoria Ransom, Co-founder, Wildfire Interactive
12. “Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning, because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else.” – Sara Blakely, Founder, Spanx
13. “High expectations are the key to everything.” - Sam Walton, Founder, Walmart
14. “You have to have more leadership, less management. It’s about getting stuff done, you can sit around and analyze things forever but while you do that the competition has moved on.” - Peter Vesterbacka, Founder, Rovio Games (including Angry Birds)
15. “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.” - Ben Silbermann, Founder, Pinterest
16. “We’re not very good at knowing what we want, and we are very quick to say, ‘This sucks.’ That’s where the opportunity lies.” - Gary Vaynerchuk, Founder, Wine Library TV
17. “You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.” - Reid Hoffman, Founder, LinkedIn
18. “Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself” - Oprah Winfrey, Founder Harpo Productions, OWN
19. “You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done.” - Russell Simmons, Founder, Def Jam
20. “Don’t be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don’t let the bastards get you down.” - Michael Bloomberg, Founder, Bloomberg L.P.
21. “Be a user of your own product. Make it better based on your own desires. But don’t trick yourself into thinking you are the user.” - Evan Williams, Co-founder, Twitter
22. “You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.” - Ted Turner, Founder, TBS, CNN, and more
23. “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, Flickr
24. “I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.” – Harland Sanders, Founder, KFC
25. “Whatever you do, be different. That was the advice my mother gave me, and I can’t think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you’re different, you will stand out.” - Anita Roddick, Founder, The Body Shop
26. “Whatever you’re thinking, think bigger.” - Tony Hsieh, Co- founder, Zappos
27. “You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.” - Chris Hughes, Co-founder, Facebook
28. “Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career.” - Angelo Sotira, Co-founder, DeviantArt
29. “Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.” - Biz Stone, Co- founder, Twitter
30. “Ideas are a commodity. Execution of them is not.” - Michael Dell, Founder, Dell
31. “If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large.” - Jeff Bezos, Founder, Bezos
32. “When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for people telling you that you are nuts.” - Larry Ellison, Co-founder, Oracle
33. “I like to pride myself on thinking pretty long term, but not that long term.” - Mark Zuckerberg, Co-founder, Facebook
34. “Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.” - Biz Stone, Co- founder, Twitter
35. “Always deliver more than expected.” - Larry Page, Co-founder, Google
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