The Best Things Ever Said By The World’s Top Entrepreneurs
“If you start thinking you are good at something, that’s often the day you stop trying to be better and open the back door for someone to come after you. That’s why we always aim higher. We never feel like we’re done.”
– Drew Houston, cofounder and CEO of Dropbox
“When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for people telling you that you are nuts.”
– Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle
“No matter how many customers you have, each is an individual. The day you start thinking of them as this amorphous ‘collection’ and stop thinking of them as people is the day you start going out of business.”
-Dharmesh Shah, Co-Founder of HubSpot
“People are the most important thing. Business model and product will follow if you have the right people.”
– Adam Neumann, Co-founder of WeWork
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
– Walt Disney, founder of Disney
“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, Amazon Founder and CEO
“It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
– Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft
“Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.”
– Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO
“The definition of ‘innovation’ is providing value to the customer”
– Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors
“I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”
– Steve Jobs, Co-Founder of Apple
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“If we tried to think of a good idea, we wouldn’t have been able to think of a good idea. You just have to find the solution for a problem in your own life.”
-Brian Chesky, Co-founder of Airbnb
“My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long university education that I never had — every day I’m learning something new.”
– Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Group
Top image: Dropbox