Starting your own business can involve new challenges and experiences. Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.

But running your own business is not easy. By understanding the challenges you might face and how to deal with them, you’ll be much better prepared for potential problems and give your business the best chance of success.

Are you looking for a little bit of inspiration? In this article, we have compiled Top 59++ quotes to get your fired up…–Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO Drew Houston, Dropbox Co-founder

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JOURNEY FROM IDEAS…

1.  Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard. -Guy Kawasaki, AllTop Co-founder
2.  If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful. – Pierre Omidyar, Ebay founder and chairman
3. When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue. – Josh James, Omniture CEO and co-founder
4. It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen. – Scott Belsky, Behance Co-founder
5. The value of an idea lies in the using of it. – Thomas Edison, General Electric Co-founder
6. We are our choices. Build yourself a great story. -Jeff Bezos, Amazon Founder
7. You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea. – Larry Page, Google co-founder
8. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney, Disney founder
9. A ‘startup’ is a company that is confused about: What its product is…Who its customers are…How to make money. – Dave McClure, 500Startups co-founder
10. Even if you don’t have the perfect idea to begin with, you can likely adapt. – Victoria Ransom, Wildfire Interactive co-founder

    

11. I don’t think an economic slump will hurt good ideas. – Rob Kalin, Etsy founder
12. The best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch. – Michael Arrington, TechCrunch founder
13. 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, Github Co-founder
14. As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big. – Donald Trump, The Trump Organization president
15. There are 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, Evernote CEO
16. 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

STARTUP REALITY…

1. What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone. Know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed. – Dave Thomas, Founder, Wendy’s
2. Stay hungry. And bootstrap. -Rob Kalin, Etsy Co-founder
3. Learn early. Learn often. -Drew Houston, Dropbox Co-founder
4. Get a mentor in the applicable field if you’re at all unsure of what you’re looking for. – Kyle Bragger, Forrst founder
5. If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success. -James Cameron
6. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder
7. Make mistakes faster. -Andrew Grove, Intel Co-founder
8. Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once. – Drew Houston, Dropbox Co-founder
9. Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. -Warren Buffet, Berkshire Hathaway Chairman
10. Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell. – Lisa Stone, BlogHer co-founder and CEO

    

11. Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career. – Ryan Freitas, About.com Co-founder
12. Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day. – Joel Spolsky, Stack Exchange CEO
13. Stay self-funded as long as possible. – Garrett Camp, founder of StumbleUpon
14. Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success. – Biz Stone, Twitter co-founder
15. Anything that is measured and watched, improves. – Bob Parsons, GoDaddy founder
16. The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world. – Marc Benioff, Salesforce CEO
17. See things in the present, even if they are in the future.” – Larry Ellison, Oracle co-founder
18. Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors. – Chris Dixon, Investor
19. It’s hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower. – Paul Graham, YCombinator Co-founder
20. Turn a perceived risk into an asset. – Aaron Patzer, Mint founder

    

21. Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market.” – Jason Calacanis, LAUNCH Ticker founder
22. No more romanticizing about how cool it is to be an entrepreneur. It’s a struggle to save your company’s life – and your own skin – every day of the week. – Spencer Fry, CarbonMade Co-founder
23. No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team. -Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder
24. You can’t make anything viral, but you can make something good. – Peter Shankman, HARO founder
25. Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. -John Lennon

KEYS FOR SUCCESS…

1. All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA. -Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder
2. Before dreaming about the future or making plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you – as entrepreneurs do. -Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder
3. 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 founder and CEO

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

5. I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars — I look for 1-foot bars that I can step over. -Warren Buffet, Berkshire Hathaway chairman and CEO
6. Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning, because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things differently from everybody else. – Sara Blakely, SPANX founder
7. Behold the turtle, he makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. – Bruce Levin
8. 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 The Huffington Post Media Group president and EIC
9. We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.” – Pete Cashmore, Mashable founder, and CEO
10. I like to pride myself on thinking pretty long term, but not that long term. – Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder

    

11. Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve. – Mary Kay Ash, Mary Kay Cosmetics founder
12. I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. – Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder
13. High expectations are the key to everything. – Sam Walton, Walmart founder
14. Don’t take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give — with a few exceptions — generalize whatever they did. Don’t over-analyze everything. I myself have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work. – Ben Silbermann, Pinterest founder
15. You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down. – Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder
16. Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations. – Tim O’Reilly, O’Reilly Media founder, and CEO

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Working for yourself without the safety net of being an employee can be a lonely, frustrating and challenging experience. Anyway, I do hope these help you and always remember that…

Don’t be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities, and don’t let the bastards get you down.

         – Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg L.P. founder