1. "I
didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it." -Estée Lauder
2. "Working hard for something we don't care about is called stressed; working hard for something we love is called passion." -Simon Sinek
3. "Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far." -Gary Vaynerchuk
4. “Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th." -Julie Andrews
5. "The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity." -Ayn Rand
6. "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." -Henry Ford
7. "You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them." -Shonda Rhimes
8. "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” - Walt Disney
9. "Done is better than perfect." -Sheryl Sandberg
10. "Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success." -Dale Carnegie
11. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new” -Socrates
12. "If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun." - Katharine Hepburn 
13. “If you can’t fly, then run. If you can’t run, then walk. If you can’t walk, then crawl. But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward” -Martin Luther King Jr.
14. “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude” -Oprah Winfrey
15. “Every day the clock resets. Your wins don't matter. Your failures don't matter. Don't stress on what was, fight for what could be. “ -Sean Higgins
16. “Play to your strengths. If you aren’t great at something, do more of what you’re great at.” -Jason Lemkin
17. "If Plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters." - Claire Cook
18. “Don’t let rejection create self-doubt. The founder of Starbucks was turned down by 217 of the 242 investors he initially spoke with.” -Elizabeth Galbut
19. "The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat; who strives valiantly, who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.”-Theodore Roosevelt
20. "The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark." - Michelangelo
21. "People are the most important thing. Business model and product will follow if you have the right people." -Adam Neumann, Co-founder of WeWork
22. "If you can offer a free tier that provides a lot of value, it will naturally help your product to spread much more rapidly." -Melanie Perkins, Co-founder of Canva
23. "One of the greatest skills of leadership is being unflappable. Anytime you do anything in the world; there’s going to be criticism." -Arianna Huffington, Co-found and editor-in-chief of Huffington Post Media Group
24. "Ignore the hype of the startups that you see in the press. Mostly, it’s a pack of lies. Half of these startups will be dead in a year. So, focus on building your business so you can be the one left standing." -Jules Pieri, Co-founder and CEO of The Grommet
25. "Don’t assume that borrowing lots of money can make your startup fly. There are many things to the business other than investors, and it’s possible to succeed with your startup without breaking the bank." -Barnaby Lashbrooke, Founder of Time Etc.
26. "It’s necessary to find a mentor who can invest time to know your personal capabilities and business model." -Nigel Davies, Founder of Claromentis
27. "Don’t get distracted. Never tell yourself that you need to be the biggest brand in the whole world. Start by working on what you need at the present moment and then what you need to do tomorrow. So, set yourself manageable targets." -Jas Bagniewski, Co-Founder of Eve Sleep
28. "No matter how many customers you have, each is an individual. The day you start thinking of them as this amorphous ‘collection’ and stop thinking of them as people is the day you start going out of business." -Dharmesh Shah, Co-Founder of HubSpot
29. "My advice is to focus on the importance of forging a long-term relationship, whether with colleagues, partners, or customers. It is often easy to get caught up in short-term decisions." -Sheila Lirio Marcelo, Founder of Care.com
30. "If you are working on a product that’s going to be consumer-facing, then feedback is invaluable. You should be out there being brave and talking to people and asking for feedback as much as possible." -Emily Brooke, Co-founder of Blaze
31. "Start as small as you can. When I started SkinnyMe Tea, I had $24 in the bank, and I was entirely self-funded. If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product; you’ve launched too late." -Gretta Rose van Riel, Founder of Hey Influencers
32. "If you tune it so that you have zero chance of failure, you usually also have zero chance of success. The key is to look at ways for when you get to your failure checkpoint, you know to stop." -Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn
33. "Some days you're smiling and thinking you're going to make this thing rock. Then the next day a pipe breaks and your costs look too high. You have to learn to keep your eyes on an ultimate goal. If you lose sight of that goal, you have to get out." -Hamdi Ulukaya, founder and CEO of Chobani
34. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” - Robert H. Schuller