50 Inspiring Quotes For Entrepreneurs

What does it take to run a successful business?. Whether you're in the early stages of your start-up or looking for some inspiration to keep going, Here are 50 quotes to help you push for success.

1. The way to get started is to quit talking and start doing. –Walt Disney, Co-Founder, Disney

2. Whether you think you can, or think you can’t -- you’re right.–Henry Ford, Ford Motor Company Founder

3. Great companies are built on great products.-- Elon Musk

4. Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people. -- Steve Jobs

5. A satisfed customer is the best business strategy of all. -- Michael LeBoeuf

6. You can’t 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, Chairman, and CEO of Apple

7. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.—Bill Gates, Founder and CEO of Microsoft

8. To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. --Thomas Watson, Sr. Chairman and CEO of International Business Machines

9. High expectations are the key to everything. –Sam Walton, Walmart Founder

10. You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over. –Richard Branson, Virgin Group Founder

11. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.-- Mark Twain

12. The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'-- Orison Swett Marden

13. 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, serial entrepreneur and investor

14. If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.–Ray Kroc, McDonald’s Founder

15. I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.-- Jeff Bezos

16. 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, founder of Wendy's

17. You have to be ready for hard work and frugal spending to get the idea off the ground. --Garrett Camp, founder of Expa, Uber, and StumbleUpon

18. Sustaining a successful business is a hell of a lot of work, and staying hungry is half the battle. –Wendy Tan White, co-founder and CEO of MoonFruit

19. 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 of Flickr

20. The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change(link 50 quotes about change) the world.  –Marc Benioff, Salesforce CEO

21. Running a startup is like being punched in the face repeatedly, but working for a large company is like being waterboarded.--Paul Graham, co-founder of Viaweb

22. Make your team feel respected, empowered and genuinely excited about the company’s mission.–Tim Westergen, Pandora Founder

23. A small businesses ability to gain an edge for a profitable niche is not by just focusing on the dynamic market gap, but by identifying a market within the gap. --Wayne Chirisa

24. You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.--Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook

25. 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, former CEO of Twitter

26. 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, founder of Walmart and Sam's Club

27. The worst sin you can ever commit to yourself is to sit and wait for someone to give you money. -- Mac Duke The Strategist

28. Timing, perseverance, and 10 years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success. --Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter

29. When the need to succeed is as bad as the need to breathe, then you'll be successful.--Eric Thomas, The Grind Coach

30. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.--Thomas Edison, inventor

31. Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don't embrace the status quo.--Howard Schultz, CEO and chairman of Starbucks

32. 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

 33. Success and profitability are outcomes of focusing on customers and employees, not objectives. --Jack Ma, founder and chairman of Alibaba Group

34. Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.—Jack Dorsey, Twitter co-founder

35. Don't play games that you don't understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.—Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO 

36. Anything that is measured and watched, improves.—Bob Parsons, GoDaddy founder 

37. See things in the present, even if they are in the future.—Larry Ellison, Oracle co-founder 

38. A 'startup' is a company that is confused about - 1. What its product is. 2. Who its customers are. 3. How to make money.—Dave McClure, 500Startups co-founder 

39. 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, LinkedIn co-founder 

40. We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.—Pete Cashmore, Mashable founder and CEO 

41. Always deliver more than expected. —Larry Page, Google co-founder

42. I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.—Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder

43. Even if you don't have the perfect idea to begin with, you can likely adapt.—Victoria Ransom, Wildfire Interactive co-founder 

44. Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.—James Cash Penney, J.C. Penney founder 

45. If you're passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.—Pierre Omidyar, Ebay founder and chairman 

46. When you find an idea that you just can't stop thinking about, that's probably a good one to pursue.—Josh James, Omniture CEO and co-founder 

47. An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.—Edwin Land, Polaroid co-founder

48. I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.-- Thomas Edison

49. Fail often so you can succeed sooner.—Tom Kelley, Ideo partner

50. 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 OK. I recovered quickly. Number four almost didn't fail. It still didn't really feel great, but it did OK. Number five was PayPal. --Max Levchin, co-founder of Affirm