Inspirierende Ziate von erfolgreichen Internet-Unternehmen bringen mich oft zu neuen Ideen, Gedanken oder Problemansätzen, so möchte ich Dir einmal meine Lieblingszitate aufzählen:

 

1. “There’s lots of bad reasons to start a company. But there’s only one good, legitimate reason, and I think you know what it is: it’s to change the world.” – Phil Libin, CEO von Evernote

2. “Always deliver more than expected.” — Larry Page, Co-founder von Google

3. “Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you.” – Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO

4. “I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.” – Jeff Bezos, Amazon Gründer und CEO

5. “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.” – Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Founder und CEO

6. “When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say ‘wow, that was an adventure,’ not ‘wow, I sure felt safe. “ – Tom Preston-Werner, Mitgründer von Github

7. “The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.” – Reid Hoffman, Mitgründer von LinkedIn

8. “So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.” – Caterina Fake, Mitgründer von Flickr

9. “I doubt I’ll ever go back to corporate work. Once you see the light, there is no turning back.” — Magnus Jepson, Mitgründer von WooThemes

10. “Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever.” — Noah Everett, Gründer von Twitpic

11. “Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.” — Arianna Huffington, Mitgründerin von The Huffington Post

12. “A hard thing is done by figuring out how to start.” – Rand Fishkin, Gründer von MOZ

13. “There are a lot of rich people in the world. There are very few people who have the privilege of getting to invent things that billions of people use.” – David Karp, Gründer von Tumblr

14. “We led with our conviction rather than rational, because rational said it was impossible.” – Daniel Ek, Gründer von Spotify

15. „People are the most important thing. Business model and product will follow if you have the right people.“ – Adam Neumann, Mitgründer vonWeWork

16. „If we tried to think of a good idea, we wouldn’t have been able to think of a good idea. You just have to find the solution for a problem in your own life.“ – Brian Chesky, Mitgründer von Airbnb

17. „When you are building a startup, it’s difficult. Particularly, a startup that is expanding at the rate of Tinder. You have to give 100%, and you have to be committed. Solving the problem has to be personal or else you’re going to disintegrate.“ – Sean Rad, Mitgründer von Tinder

18. „We learned many things while building FourSquare. One of the most important lessons is to be clear to investors about what the company will and will not do. And be open about the priorities of the things that have to be done.“ – Dennis Crowley, Mitgründer von Foursquare

19. „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, Mitgründer von LinkedIn

20. „If something is important enough, or you believe something is important enough, even if you are scared, you will keep going.“ – Elon Musk, CEO von Tesla Motors und SpaceX