Es gibt Unmengen an Zitaten zu den Themen Entrepreneur und StartUps. Die folgenden 70 sind eine persönliche Auswahl aus dieser Menge. Auch wenn ich sicherlich noch andere gute vergessen habe.
- „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 - „Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.“
~ Steve Jobs - „Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career.“
~ Ryan Freitas - „If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.“
~ Mario Andretti - „If you have a strong, loyal community, you can do anything.“
~ Jacob Dehart - „‚Make something people want‘ includes making a company that people want to work for.“
~ Sahil Lavingia - „Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you.“
~ Tony Hsieh - „Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.“
~ Tim O’Reilly - „Most startups eventually pivot to adjust to what the market is telling them.“
~ Alejandro Cremades - „Global vision, local win.“
~ Jack Ma - „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 - „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 - „If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large.“
~ Jeff Bezos - „Learning to embrace and savor rejection is one of the best things that entrepreneurs can do. Launching a startup is the time to find your ever-optimistic inner child again.“
~ Alejandro Cremades - „Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.“
~ Drew Houston - „Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy.“
~ Jason Fried - „The value of an idea lies in the using of it.“
~ Thomas Edison - „Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.“
~ Jeffrey Zeldman - „The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.“
~ Walt Disney - „The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.“
~ Marc Benioff - „Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.“
~ Jack Dorsey - „The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.“
~ Ingvar Kamprad - „A business model that hasn’t been tried before is always interesting, even if it’s likely to fail.“
~ Michael Arrington - „If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.“
~ Elon Musk - „Any time is a good time to start a company.“
~ Ron Conway - „Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don’t find one, it’s you.“
~ Mark Cuban - „It’s hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower.“
~ Paul Graham - „We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want.“
~ Eric Ries - „The only thing worse than starting something and failing … is not starting something.“
~ Seth Godin - „It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.“
~ Scott Belsky - „You have chosen the wrong path if it’s not fun. And you are probably not taking enough risk if it’s not hard and rocky sometimes.“
~ Marc Benioff - „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 - „I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.“
~ Thomas Edison - „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 - „We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.“
~ Pete Cashmore - „Sustaining a successful business is a hell of a lot of work, and staying hungry is half the battle.“
~ Wendy Tan White - „All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.“
~ Reid Hoffman - „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 - „Fail often so you can succeed sooner.“
~ Tom Kelley - „It’s very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.“
~ Jonathan Ive - „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 - „It’s not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.“
~ Edwin Land - „Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.“
~ Seth Godin - „If you’re interested in the living heart of what you do, focus on building things rather than talking about them.“
~ Ryan Freitas - „The lean startup method is not about cost, it is about speed.“
~ Eric Ries - „Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.“
~ Guy Kawasaki - „An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.“
~ David Karp - „Our industry does not respect tradition, it only respects innovation.“
~ Satya Nadella - „Don’t play games that you don’t understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.“
~ Tony Hsieh - „Fear is the disease. Hustle is the antidote.“
~ Travis Kalanick - „Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.“
~ Joel Spolsky - „No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.“
~ Reid Hoffman - „I try not to make any decisions that I’m not excited about.“
~ Jake Nickell - „Are you raising money? We raise money ever day, from our customers.“
~ Sahil Lavingia - „Data beats emotions.“
~ Sean Rad - „If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.“
~ Reid Hoffman - „In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.“
~ Steve Case - „Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.“
~ Tony Hsieh - „Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.“
~ Howard Schultz - „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 - „Always deliver more than expected.“
~ Larry Page - „You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.“
~ Richard Branson - „High expectations are the key to everything.“
~ Sam Walton - „You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.“
~ Reid Hoffman - „So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.“
~ Caterina Fake - „Trust your instincts.“
~ Estee Lauder - „There’s lots of bad reasons to start a company. But there’s only one good, legitimate reason, and I think you know what it is: it’s to change the world.“
~ Phil Libin - „Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.“
~ Lisa Stone - „Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.“
~ Bill Gates - „Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.“
~ Steve Jobs
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