1. If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.

- Mario Andretti

2. 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

3. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

- Bill Gates

4. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.

- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

5. Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

- Henry Ford

6. If you are going through hell, keep going.

- Winston Churchill

7. Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

- Jack London

8. When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say, ‘Wow, that was an adventure,’ not, ‘Wow, I sure felt safe.’

- Tom Preston-Werner

9. The only thing worse than starting something and failing is not starting something.

- Seth Godin

10. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

- Jim Rohn

11. Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is.

- Mark Cuban

12. It’s not the big that eat the small – it’s the fast that eat the slow.

- Jason Jennings

13. Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

- Mahatma Gandhi

14. The way to get started is to quit talking and start doing.

- Walt Disney

15. Starting your own business is like riding a roller coaster. There are highs and lows and every turn you take is another twist. The lows are really low, but the highs can be really high. You have to be strong, keep your stomach tight, and ride along with the roller coaster that you started.

- Lindsay Manseau

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

- Reid Hoffman

17. I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

- Wayne Gretzy

18. Nothing works better than just improving your product.

- Joel Spolsky

19. Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

- Michael Dell

20. The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.

- Rob Kalin

21. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.

- Steve Jobs

22. Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

- Parkinson's law

23. Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.

- Drew Houston

24. Done is better than perfect.

- Sheryl Sandberg

25. Don’t be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don’t let the bastards get you down.

- Michael Bloomberg

26. You can be comfortable in your career or extraordinary. Which one are you going to be?

- Sally Hogshead

27. Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.

- Thomas A. Edison

28. Our industry does not respect tradition. It only respects innovation.

- Satya Nadella

29. Customers don’t care about your solution. They care about their problems.

- Dave McClure

30. When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for people telling you that you are nuts.

- Larry Ellison

31. Forget about your competitors, just focus on your customers.

- Jack Ma

32. Any time is a good time to start a company.

- Ron Conway

33. Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.

- Guy Kawasaki

34. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

- Henry David Thoreau

35. It’s not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

- Edwin H. Land

36. The most important thing is not to let fundraising get you down. Startups live or die on morale. If you let the difficulty of raising money destroy your morale, it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

- Paul Graham

37. 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

38. The world is not changed by people who sort of care.

- Sally Hogshead

39. Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy.

- Jason Fried

40. Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.

- Ann Landers

41. Real artists ship.

- Steve Jobs

42. High expectations are the key to everything.

- Sam Walton

43. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

- Henry Ford

44. Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

- Henry Ford

45. You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.

- Ted Turner

46. You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

- Zig Ziglar

47. Having a great startup pitch has more to do with setting up and running a great company than optimizing some type of sales process to investors. Great investors can see through most tactics that you will use in the pitch process, so the best fundraising strategy is to build a great company.

- Ken Howery

48. Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

- Steve Jobs

49. Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

- Biz Stone

50. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

- Mark Twain

51. Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.

- Nelson Mandela

52. Believe in your dreams and dream big. And then after you’ve done that, dream bigger.

- Howard Schultz

53. Always wake up with a smile knowing that today you are going to have fun accomplishing what others are too afraid to do.

- Mark Cuban

54. Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.

- Jack Dorsey

55. Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

- Will Rogers

56. I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.

- Elon Musk

57. I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

- Steve Jobs

58. You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done.

- Russell Simmons

59. No business plan survives first contact with customers.

- Steve Blank

60. You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.

- Richard Branson

61. Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

- Confucius

62. When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.

- Eric Thomas

63. Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.

- Seth Godin

64. 80% of your sales come from 20% of your clients.

- Pareto principle

65. I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

- Michael Jordan

66. Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week, to avoid working 40 hours a week.

- Lori Greiner

67. Not having a clear goal leads to death by a thousand compromises.

- Mark Pincus

68. Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right.

- Henry Ford

69. If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

- John D. Rockefeller

70. Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

- Steve Jobs

71. Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.

- Paul Rand

72. We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.

- Pete Cashmore

73. There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

- Sam Walton

74. 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

75. I don’t focus on what I’m up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.

- Venus Williams

76. Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

- Mark Zuckerberg

77. Diligence is the mother of good luck.

- Benjamin Franklin

78. Whatever you’re thinking, think bigger.

- Tony Hsieh

79. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

- Winston Churchill

80. 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.

- Dave Thomas

81. 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.

- Pareto principle

82. 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

83. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

- Thomas A. Edison

84. “Make something people want” includes making a company that people want to work for.

- Sahil Lavingia

85. Chase the vision, not the money. The money will end up following you.

- Tony Hsieh

86. When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.

- Josh James

87. Running a startup is like being punched in the face repeatedly, but working for a large company is like being waterboarded.

- Paul Graham

88. Micromanage the process, not the people.

- Joe Apfelbaum

89. I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.

- Jeff Bezos

90. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

- Elon Musk

91. Always deliver more than expected.

- Larry Page

92. The cost of hiring someone bad is so much greater than missing out on someone good.

- Joe Kraus

93. So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.

- Caterina Fake

94. You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.

- Reid Hoffman

95. Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.

- Ted Turner

96. A year from now you may wish you had started today.

- Karen Lamb

97. I think the single most reassuring thing about doing a startup is knowing in advance how difficult it is going to be.

- Jared Tame

98. We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.

- Thomas A. Edison

99. Eliminate all the unimportant opportunities.

- Mike Markkula

100. What would you do if you weren’t afraid?

- Sheryl Sandberg

101. It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.

- Babe Ruth

102. If your sole focus is money, you may create a successful startup. But if it’s impact, you can probably create history.

- Sharad Vivek Sagar

103. I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.

- Bill Gates