Top 492 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Entrepreneurs

One of the biggest mistakes that most people make is clinging to the excuse that the time isn't quite right to take action. Well, let me tell you something: In my experience, conditions are never right at the right time. The timing is always wrong. So if you're waiting for everything to be perfect before taking action, you have a foolproof excuse for never taking action.

As all entrepreneurs will say, "surround yourself with good people". That is the hardest thing : finding good people.

Create content that teaches. You can’t give up. You need to be consistently awesome.

FOOD is the most widely abused anti-anxiety drug in America, and EXERCISE is the most potent yet underutilized antidepressant.

Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, Instagram, all these companies are businesses first, but, as a close second, they're demographers of unprecedented reach, thoroughness, and importance. Practically as an accident, digital data can now show us how we fight, how we love, how we age, who we are, and how we're changing. All we have to do is look.

You can't base your life's decisions on potential future regrets.

I'm a classic movie person. I love action movies, too, but when I grew up I didn't have much action movies.

It doesn't matter if the glass is half empty or half full. Be grateful you have a glass - your the only person that can decide what's in it.

Every day is a school day. I learn something new every day, and I never know what's going to happen next.

It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.

Create experiences that leave you in awe, for these will be the highlights of your life.

Nothing turns off an investor more than when an entrepreneur comes in with a ridiculous valuation.

One of the things that I think audio is best at is creating empathy.

Being an entrepreneur is sexy... for those who haven't done it. In reality it's gritty, tough work where you will be filled with self doubt. Entrepreneurs are survivors.

At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's about destroying value.

Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity.

Money is human kind's greatest invention. Money doesn't discriminate. Money doesn't care whether a person is poor, whether a person comes from a good family, or what his skin color is. Anybody can make money.

It would be impossible for me to give you a list of the top 10 songs that shake my life. Far more music went in to it than just ten.

Not to let anyone convince you that your dream, your vision to be an entrepreneur is something that you shouldn't do. What often happens is that people who are well meaning, who really care for us are afraid for us and talk us out of it.

Computer is not a device anymore. It is an extension of your mind and your gateway to other people.

Fight piracy; don't squash innovation.

I have never compromised on fundamentals. I've always believed in focusing on creating value and not valuation.

I believe everyone on earth has a certain goal/dream in life. I also believe anyone can achieve this if they set their minds to it.

Life is too fragile and valuable to be spent doing something you hate.

We will make La Perla a great international brand for beauty and feminine luxury.

If you want different, you have to think and act different.

Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.

Yes, I am optimistic about the environment. If you assume business is exerting the most negative influence on the environment and also has the possibility to impact it positively, there are a bunch of forces that are impacting business that are fundamentally different from the situation 3 or 4 years ago.

When in doubt, err on the side of generosity.

There are people who make a hobby of telling others what they can do and what they can't do. I've learnt to not listen to those people.

We saw images and ideas from white supremacists literally shared from political campaigns showing up in the Twitter feeds of major news organizations. We saw it in our political rallies as well.

When you create something that connects, your story will travel faster than ever before.

If you can't toot your own horn, toot another woman's! It's the best way to elevate women to be leaders.

I think you just have to work hard for about 10 years before you know what you’re doing

Impute People DO judge a book by its cover. We may have the best product, the highest quality, the most useful software etc.; if we present them in a slipshod manner, they will be perceived as slipshod; if we present them in a creative, professional manner, we will impute the desired qualities.

All of Christian existence ... stands within an expectation. Its fulfillment may be sure, but its timing is unknown.

One of the things that drives me is the excitement that I could fail. What better buzz can you get?

You are the most powerful force in your life.

The spirit of social computing is the concept of leaving value in your wake.

When something you make doesn't work, it didn't work, not you. You, you work. You keep trying.

Get your idea out there as fast as possible even if it’s not quite ready by setting must-hit deadlines. Let the market tell you if you have a winner or not. If not – move on and fail forward fast! If it’s got potential – then you can make it better.

Bitcoin is not a currency for a government; it is a global currency for the people.

Never be afraid to fail. Be afraid of not learning from mistakes.

India's place in the sun would come from the partnership between wisdom of its rural people and skill of its professionals

All you've got to do is decide to go and the hardest part is over.

In a world full of monochromatic tadpoles, if you are fluorescent it does not matter what size of tadpole you are.

I hate to see anybody be unemployed, but if there's a certain segment of society I think it's political consultants and operatives.

The largest opportunities are found in ideas that go against the grain.

Mass travel by air may prove to be more significant to world destiny than the atom bomb.

If you don't have a mobile strategy, you're in deep turd.

Technology has brought us to a point in which hundreds of millions if not billions of people have a voice, each voice can now be heard.

Knowing is half the battle. Explaining it is the other half.

Networking is marketing. Marketing yourself, marketing your uniqueness, marketing what you stand for.

Anyone can desire anything, but if you're not going to commit, you're not getting it.

Travel can transform communities and lives around the world... Imagine if we got to a place where people can go on holidays as their way of giving back.

You are alive today, and no matter what your condition, make a mark here and now. Opportunity is at every moment, seizing it is pleasure.

My father taught me that reputation, not money, was the most important thing in the world.

Skills are expensive in Africa, best people are on American salaries.

Any rap record from 1989 to 1999, besides [ones on] Death Row, we did promotions for it. We had our hand in everything.

Outside of a Grand Slam, I don't think there's a tournament in the world that has this many top players representing their countries. It's really remarkable that we have this many No. 1's. And with so many countries being represented, it's going to give the fans from Las Vegas who are from those countries a chance to come out and root for their countrymen.