Are you feeling stuck in the day-to-day grind of running a business? Don't worry, we've all been there. But it's important to remember that even the most successful leaders, founders and entrepreneurs have faced challenges and obstacles on their path to success.

Take a break from the hustle and bustle, grab a cup of coffee, and let these inspiring quotes from founders and entrepreneurs fuel your motivation and remind you that you're capable of achieving great things.

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1. Steve Jobs, co-founder and CEO of Apple

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle."

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2. Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Group

"You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over."

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3., Shah Rukh Khan, Bollywood actor and founder of Red Chillies Entertainment

"Success is not a good teacher. Failure makes you humble."

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4. Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company  

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the aeroplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

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5. Steve Jobs, co-founder and CEO of Apple

"Don’t let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."

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6. Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari

"The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today."

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7. Bill Gates, co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft

"I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one."

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8. Zig Ziglar, founder and CEO of Ziglar Inc

"One can get anything if he is willing to help enough others get what they want."

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9. Walt Disney, co-founder of The Walt Disney Company

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." - Walt Disney, co-founder of The Walt Disney Company

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10. Larry Page, co-founder and former CEO of Google

"You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea."

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11. Albert Einstein, founder of the theory of relativity

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

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12. Jack Dorsey, co-founder and CEO of Twitter

"Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect."

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13. Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Facebook

"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."

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14. Vince Lombardi, founder of Green Bay Packers

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."

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15. Ivan Misner, founder and chairman of BNI

"Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy."

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16. Mario Andretti, founder of Andretti Autosport

"If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough."

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17. Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon

"If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful."

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18. Brian Tracy, self-development author and speaker

"Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?"

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19. Peter F. Drucker, management consultant and author

"Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."

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20. Zig Ziglar

"If you can dream it, you can achieve it."

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21. Wayne Gretzky, founder of The Hockey World  

"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."

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22. Vidal Sassoon, founder of brand Vidal Sassoon

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."

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23.  Og Mandino, author and motivational speaker

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."

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24. Thomas A. Edison, inventor and founder of General Electric

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

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25. Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the Civil Rights Movement

"If you can’t fly then run if you can’t run then walk if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."

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26. Henry Ford

"Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right."

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27. Barbara Corcoran, founder of The Corcoran Group

"Successful entrepreneurs are willing to face their fears and take risks in order to achieve their goals."

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28. Chris Grosser, author and entrepreneur

"Opportunities don’t happen. You create them."

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29. Mark Zuckerberg

"The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."

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30. Drew Houston, co-founder and CEO of Dropbox

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

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31. Albert Schweitzer, founder of Lambaréné

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

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32. Unknown

"If you can’t handle rejection, you can’t handle success."

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33. Marc Benioff, founder and CEO of Salesforce

"The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world."

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34. Andre Gide, French writer and Nobel Prize winner

"One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."

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35. Walt Disney, co-founder of The Walt Disney Company

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

36. Michael Jordan

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen."

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37. Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari

"The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today."

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38. Seth Godin, author and founder of Squidoo

"There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas. What’s missing is the will to execute them."

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39. Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos

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

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40. Arthur Ashe, founder of The American Tennis Association

"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation."

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41. Noam Chomsky, founder and director of MIT's Research Lab of Electronics

"If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all."

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42. Jack Dorsey, co-founder and CEO of Twitter

"Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect."

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43. Vince Lombardi, founder and coach for The Green Bay Packers

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."

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44. Jim Rohn, author and motivational speaker

"Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better."

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45. Mark Zuckerberg , Facebook founder

"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."

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46. Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn

"An entrepreneur is someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down."

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47. Chinese Proverb

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

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48. Bruce Lee, founder of Jeet Kune Do

"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."

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49. Zig Ziglar, author and motivational speaker

"If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you."

50. Karl Jacob, founder of LinkExchange and investor in PayPal, Zappos, and Facebook.

"Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy."