Entrepreneur Quotes

366 quotes in this collection

"Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me."

-- Steve Jobs

"Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me."

-- Steve Jobs

"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected."

-- Steve Jobs

"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected."

-- Steve Jobs

"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards."

-- Steve Jobs

"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards."

-- Steve Jobs

"My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time."

-- Steve Jobs

"My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time."

-- Steve Jobs

"Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles."

-- Steve Jobs

"Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles."

-- Steve Jobs

"Innovation is saying no to a thousand things."

-- Steve Jobs

"Innovation is saying no to a thousand things."

-- Steve Jobs

"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

-- Steve Jobs

"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

-- Steve Jobs

"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

-- Steve Jobs

"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

-- Steve Jobs

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

-- Steve Jobs

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

-- Steve Jobs

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

-- Steve Jobs

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

-- Steve Jobs

"Stay hungry, stay foolish."

-- Steve Jobs

"Stay hungry, stay foolish."

-- Steve Jobs

"Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature."

-- Leo Tolstoy

"Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature."

-- Leo Tolstoy

"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."

-- Leo Tolstoy

"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."

-- Leo Tolstoy

"All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

-- Leo Tolstoy

"All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

-- Leo Tolstoy

"Music is the shorthand of emotion."

-- Leo Tolstoy

"Music is the shorthand of emotion."

-- Leo Tolstoy

"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."

-- Leo Tolstoy

"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."

-- Leo Tolstoy

"The radical invention of the mind is the only true thing."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"The radical invention of the mind is the only true thing."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10% to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated."

-- Bill Gates

"Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10% to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated."

-- Bill Gates

"I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition."

-- Bill Gates

"I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition."

-- Bill Gates

"I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars... But once you get much beyond that, it's the same hamburger."

-- Bill Gates

"I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars... But once you get much beyond that, it's the same hamburger."

-- Bill Gates

"Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do."

-- Bill Gates

"Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do."

-- Bill Gates

"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG."

-- Bill Gates

"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG."

-- Bill Gates

"A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything."

-- Bill Gates

"A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything."

-- Bill Gates

"There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position."

-- Bill Gates

"There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position."

-- Bill Gates