Startup Motivation Quotes

You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.

Be Brave and Take Risks: You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don't have to have it all figured out to move forward.

Live the Life of Your Dreams When you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve.

Don't wait for the right moment to start, start and make each moment right.

Stop doing what is easy. Start doing what is right.

Stop doing what is easy or popular. Start doing what is right.

You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don't have to have it all figured out to move forward.

Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses in your life; you realize everything that happens in life is a result of the previous choice you’ve made and start making new choices to change your life.

Real change is difficult at the beginning, but gorgeous at the end. Change begins the moment you get the courage and step outside your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.

The beginning is always NOW.

We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.

The person passionate about what he or she is doing will outwork and outlast the guy motivated solely by making money.

Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey.

Fail soon so that you can succeed sooner.

No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.

Today it is cheaper to start a business than tomorrow.

Comfort zone: simply means the routine of one’s daily life – it is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure.

Be creative while inventing ideas, but be disciplined while implementing them.

Just because you have baggage doesn't mean you have to lug it around.

The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.

Never fear starting. Fear never starting.

Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

Disruptors don't have to discover something new; they just have to discover a practical use for new discoveries.

The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful ones know that the most unprofitable thing ever manufactured is an excuse.

Entrepreneurs see what others can't, do what others won't, and accomplish what others dream.

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic.

Perfectionism is a disease. Procrastination is a disease. ACTION is the cure.

Regret nothing. Everything broken can be remade. And everything remade can once again be broken

When you were making excuses someone else was making enterprise.

You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

All businesses -- no matter if they make dog food or software -- don't sell products, they sell solutions.

Insight and drive are all the skills you need. Everything else can be hired.

You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.

No one who ever led a nation got there by following the path of another.

Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.

Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering opportunity.

It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure

Speed to fail should be every entrepreneur's motto. When you finally find the one idea that can't be killed, go with it.

The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

Five Ups of life: Buckle up, Start up, Keep it up, Don’t give up, Cheer up.

It's called entrepreneurSHIP, not entrepreneurSTAY. Don't wait. Just ship.

Time doesn’t change things. It’s how we use our time that makes the difference.

In stark contrast, China’s startup culture is the yin to Silicon Valley’s yang: instead of being mission-driven, Chinese companies are first and foremost market-driven. Their ultimate goal is to make money, and they’re willing to create any product, adopt any model, or go into any business that will accomplish that objective. That mentality leads to incredible flexibility in business models and execution, a perfect distillation of the “lean startup” model often praised in Silicon Valley. It doesn’t matter where an idea came from or who came up with it. All that matters is whether you can execute it to make a financial profit. The core motivation for China’s market-driven entrepreneurs is not fame, glory, or changing the world. Those things are all nice side benefits, but the grand prize is getting rich, and it doesn’t matter how you get there.

Why fear feedback? Why stigmatize failure in the workplace when it’s bringing you closer to achieving your organizational goals.

An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep.

Starting a business with brother either ends business or ends brotherhood.

Selling is a sacred trust between buyer and seller.

A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.

Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.

A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.

Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.

A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a negative state.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.

You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at.

An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.

Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.

Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast.

Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better.

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?

Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

Data has no ego and makes an excellent co-pilot.

One who doesn't recognise an opportunity is bigger loser than one who tries his hand at an opportunity.

Be patient. Creating something good takes time. So take your time.

Building a house every day does not necessarily mean that you are building a house every day.

Some thoughts you underestimate but may be capable of energizing the world. Never delay to put your thoughts into words.

QUIT = Quickly Uphold Important Things

You NEED to learn how to fly before you learn how to land and you MUST learn how to land before you start flying.

Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.

You may start small but don't stay small

The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't.

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.

If you can imagine a solution, you can make it happen.

Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.

The customer is always right...even when they're wrong.

The joy of disruption comes from accepting that we all live in a temporal state.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

You can truly have it all, just not all at the same time.

Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.

Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

Security doesn't rob ambition; the illusion of security robs ambition.

Disruption isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you respond to what happens to you.

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.

There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen.

If life, you get what you believe you deserve.

The business world is littered with the fossils of companies that failed to evolve. Disrupt or be disrupted. There is no middle ground.

Billions of dollars worth of research knowledge lie dormant at American universities waiting for the right disruptor to come along and create a business.

All Disruption starts with introspection.

Every day is full of opportunities, but an opportunity is full of only so many days.

In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge for the modern entrepreneur is to take that path.

A business model describes the flow between key components of the company: •  value proposition, which the company offers (product/service, benefits) •  customer segments, such as users, and payers, or moms or teens •  distribution channels to reach customers and offer them the value proposition •  customer relationships to create demand •  revenue streams generated by the value proposition(s) •  resources needed to make the business model possible •  activities necessary to implement the business model •  partners who participate in the business and their motivations for doing so •  cost structure resulting from the business model The

Throw in the valley’s rich history of computer science breakthroughs, and you’ve set the stage for the geeky-hippie hybrid ideology that has long defined Silicon Valley. Central to that ideology is a wide-eyed techno-optimism, a belief that every person and company can truly change the world through innovative thinking. Copying ideas or product features is frowned upon as a betrayal of the zeitgeist and an act that is beneath the moral code of a true entrepreneur. It’s all about “pure” innovation, creating a totally original product that generates what Steve Jobs called a “dent in the universe.” Startups that grow up in this kind of environment tend to be mission-driven. They start with a novel idea or idealistic goal, and they build a company around that. Company mission statements are clean and lofty, detached from earthly concerns or financial motivations.