10 quotes on success from the world’s greatest entrepreneurs

Whether you’re looking to increase your determination or improve your motivation, take some words of wisdom from those who have succeeded like few else have. From Steve Jobs to Warren Buffett, these quotes on success from the world’s greatest entrepreneurs will have every entrepreneurial fire reignited in a second.

1. “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”

– Steve Jobs, co-founder and CEO of Apple

2. “Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.”

— Jack Dorsey, Twitter co-founder

3. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”

– Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company

4. “I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.”

– Benjamin Franklin

5. “You shouldn’t focus on why you can’t do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.”

– Steve Case, co-founder of AOL

6. “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”

– Steve Jobs, co-founder and CEO of Apple

7. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”

– Warren Buffett

8. “Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.”

– Anthony Volodkin, Hype Machine founder

9. “In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.”

— Steve Case, AOL co-founder

10. “Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.”

– Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter

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