By Tian DuBelko
Being a first-time entrepreneur can be a very stressful experience, especially if you don’t have a mentor to help you take that first step. And while launching a successful company can be one of the most rewarding experiences in a person’s life, it takes a lot of hard work and dedication. But even though you can’t just call up the likes of Bill Gates for business advice, you can still look to their wisdom and business philosophies that have made them so successful.
To help you and your tech company succeed, we’ve rounded up some inspiring quotes and nuggets of wisdom from some of the most successful tech founders and CEOS on how they approach business and success.
Bill Gates, Microsoft Founder and former CEO:
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
Larry Page, Google Co-Founder:
“Always deliver more than expected.”
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn Co-Founder and Venture Capitalist:
“If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.”
Evan Williams, Twitter Co-Founder:
“User experience is everything. It always has been, but it’s undervalued and underinvested in. If you don’t know user-centered design, study it. Hire people who know it. Obsess over it. Live and breathe it. Get your whole company on board.”
Steve Jobs, Apple Co-Founder:
“I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”
Jeff Bezos, Amazon Founder and CEO:
“I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”
Michael Dell, Dell Chairman and CEO:
“Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.”
Richard Branson, Virgin Group Founder:
“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.”
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Founder and CEO:
“If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.”
Steve Case, AOL Co-Founder and CEO:
“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.”
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