Niklas Zennstrom Quotes

You can't go into business thinking that success will come to you in just one or two years.

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

When I started Go Daddy, I tried many things - like building networks and selling education - and none of it panned out. I lost millions of dollars the first couple of years. I made a lot of wrong turns, but that's the process of being successful in business.

'Humans of New York' did not result from a flash on inspiration. It grew from five years of experimenting, tinkering, and messing up.

Almost everything you do fails. To develop a great success we must have thousands of failures along the way

WeWork is my fifth venture. I failed in my first, second and third, had mediocre success in the fourth.

Instant success are seldom instant and if you talk to the people behind these successes, you'll find out that they came after months of fear, uncertainty and confusion along with a flagrant lack of adoption.

You should pursue your passion. If you're passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you'll be successful. If you start a business because you think you're going to make a lot of money at it, then you probably won't be successful, because that's the wrong reason to start a business. You have to really believe in what you're doing, be passionate enough about it so that you will put in the hours and hard work that it takes to actually succeed there, and then you'll be successful.

I really want people to know that I've worked hard, very hard, to get to where I am today.. this didn't just happen overnight. I started in business over 25 years ago and have found a way to build on what I've learned through every partnership and opportunity.

There's no formula for success in this business. You just do the best you can.

Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

You know, being an entrepreneur is super hard work, and if you're not passionate about what you're doing, you're probably not going to succeed.

The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.

To my mind, the best investment a young man starting out in business can possibly make is to give all his time, all his energies, to work - just plain, hard work.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

It takes 10 million failures to find the right stuff.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

I busted my butt all my life building companies.

The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work.

Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business.

It often looks like an actor's had a big break out of nowhere, but in reality, they've been working their way up, little by little, for a while.

You can't invent Google, Facebook or the iPod unless you've mastered the basics, are willing to put in long hours and can pick yourself up from the floor when life knocks you down the first 10 times.

Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.

When most people hit failure, they give up, but good entrepreneurs simply treat failure as a learning experience and use it to fuel and inform their next move.