Founding a new company is always filled with challenges. A good entrepreneur must learn how to quickly spot mistakes they have made, fix them, and strive to not make the same mistake again. There are plenty of lessons that can be learnt about start-ups, and we have collected quotes that every start-up founder will find useful. These inspiring quotes for start-ups feature well known (as well as not-so-well-known) entrepreneurs.

20 Inspiring Quotes to Help You Start Your Own Business 

Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who’s forging a bullet with your company’s name on it.

– Gary Hamel, Business Writer

If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t really trying.

– Coleman Hawkins, Jazz Musician

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

– Alan Kay

Without customers, you don’t have a business. You have a hobby.

– Don Peppers & Martha Rogers, Return on Customer

If you try to do something and fail, you are vastly better off than if you had tried nothing and succeeded.

– Anonymous

When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

– Phyllis Bottome

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

– Henry Ford

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.

– Elbert Hubbard

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

– Michael Jordan

The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation.

– Comer Cotrel

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

– Thomas Edison

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

What I’ve learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you’re hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner.

– James Dyson

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

– Colin R. Davis

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.

– Roy Ash

Everyone should pull their finger out and start a business and to believe in themselves. There is nothing else to it. Anyone can make a £100m. But most people don’t go out and try. They just stand in the pub and complain.

– Duncan Bannatyne

If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large.

– Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO

Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.

– Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO

It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.

– Scott Belsky, Behance co-founder

Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.

– Drew Houston, Dropbox founder