Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Everyone should start a company.
Sahil Lavingia
Biggest predictor of massive success vs. minor success among founders: years and years of relentless determination.
Sam Altman
Control your own destiny or someone else will.
Jack Welch
You imagine a better future, you create it, and then you sell tickets.
Keith Rabois
Earn with your mind, not your time.
Naval Ravikant
Figure out what you are uniquely the best in the world at because you just love it. And then just find out who or what needs that the most.
Naval Ravikant
Great entrepreneurs don’t seek approval; they seek the truth.
Mike Maples
Being an entrepreneur isn’t really about starting a business. It’s a way of looking at the world: seeing opportunity where others see obstacles, taking risks when others take refuge.
Michael Bloomberg
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Steve Jobs
I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.
Estée Lauder
A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.
Marcus Aurelius
Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands shaking. Start with voice trembling. Just start.
Sara Blakely
If you don’t want to have a boss, you better be capable in the wild.
Angela Jiang
Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.
Naval Ravikant
Don’t build something because you can, build something because you can’t stop thinking about it.
Brian Norgard
No one cares about your idea more than you do. So if you’re not going to put in the work to make it happen, who will?
Sahil Lavingia
Top skill for entrepreneurs: Being great at ignoring what everyone else is doing.
Jason Fried
I’ve never met a rule I didn’t enjoy bending.
Kamal Ravikant
If you follow the rules perfectly you will come out of it a perfected sheep.
@AmuseChimp
Just like an artist can look at a blank canvas, and from that, create a masterpiece, founders do the same.
Steve Blank
Where one person sees a crisis, another can see opportunity.
Ryan Holiday
People respond well to those that are sure of what they want.
Anna Wintour
The most value comes from doing something no one else can do, or no one else has thought of, in a way that is hard for other people to copy. If you try to be just like everyone else, and do just what they’re doing, you will maybe do ok but certainly not great.
Sam Altman
Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.
Drew Houston
Life is too short to spend every day doing something you don’t love.
Jack Welch
Aim to become not the best at what you do but the only person who does what you do.
Keith Rabois
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
Andrew Carnegie
If you’re looking to become an entrepreneur then don’t waste your time going to university or business school – just get on and do it.
Richard Branson
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Jim Rohn