What's your favorite entrepreneurial quote?

I have 2

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." ~Goethe

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." ~Theodore Roosevelt

There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart...pursue those. (Anonymous)

(found on the website of Dr. Dan Garcia, UC Berkeley)

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can acheive. - Napoleon Hill

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

-- Winston Churchill

You can only avoid competition by avoiding good ideas.

-- Paul Graham

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

-- Voltaire

NIKE " JUST DO IT "

A few more...

Fortune favors the bold ~Virgil

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan

"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." -J. Sibelius (composer)

"Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming." -John Wooden

Do it.

Do it right.

Do it right now.

"You make what you measure."

(from Hewlett and Packard via Joe Kraus)

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses" - Henry Ford

(Paraphrasing, possibly not exact quote):

"You only need to be right once"

-- Mark Cuban

Success is not a place at which one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey. Alex Noble

"Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain

And simple to express:

Err

and err

and err again

but less

and less

and less."

-- Piet Hein via Don Knuth and Ryan Brush

http://toomuchcode.blogspot.com/2007/02/imperfect-approximation-of-perfect-code.html

"Passion knows no logic."

Chance favors the prepared mind - Louis Pasteur

"I only have one hour of pure brilliance per week. Unfortunately I have to work 80 per week to find the one."

- Wil Schroter

Do much. Say little. Write nothing. (Except software)

JP Morgan (I added the bit about software.)

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer. Peter Drucker

The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing. Michael Gerber

Cheap, fast, or accurate.

Pick two.

"Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty. Think big."

-Daniel Burnham, Chicago architect. (1864-1912)

From the Scottish mountain climber W. H. Murray:

"Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way."