Whether you are a seasoned entrepreneur or just starting out, you will no doubt find inspiration and advice in the words of others who have gone before you. Here is a compilation of some of the most informative and inspiring quotes on entrepreneurship. From Warby Parker’s Neil Blumenthal on the importance of giving back, to Steve Jobs on keeping focused on what matters, these quotes will motivate and encourage you to pursue your entrepreneurial dreams.

1. I know that mess spelled backwards is ssem and I felt much better armed with that information. — Tori Amos

2. We’ve moved from wisdom to knowledge, and now we’re moving from knowledge to information, and that information is so partial–that we’re creating incomplete human beings. — Vandana Shiva

3. Modern day information overload stops us sufficiently engaging with our thoughts. — Sam Owen, 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite–Sized Advice For Busy People

4. We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children’s innate quest for information and understanding. — Sugata Mitra

5. The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate. — Orrin Hatch

6. You must burn with the desire to seek new things and investigate information — Sunday Adelaja

7. Imagine a house coming together spontaneously from all the information contained in the bricks: that is how animal bodies are made. — Neil Shubin

8. Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence. — Umberto Eco

9. Information that a book possesses is made of time — Sunday Adelaja

10. As a designer, you always take facets of different people and you mix them together with your own thoughts and information and creativity and passion. — Nicki Minaj

11. The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information. — Tim Berners

12. An open internet is an open platform for debating opposing views. It allows unpopular voices to be heard. — Newton Lee, Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness

13. .ensuring that young people get the right information that will enable them make the right choices is a responsibility all citizens must take seriously — Oche Otorkpa, The Unseen Terrorist

14. There’s a lot of arrogance in the medical community. There are good, reliable websites you can go to for information–the Mayo Clinic, the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins. — Tom Brokaw

15. The biggest form of witchcraft is denying someone information. — Unarine Ramaru

16. Vetting and verifying information is one thing. Having our government sending out conflicting messages to the American people when conflict can be avoided is another. — Vito Fossella

17. The information I requested under the Freedom of Information Act has been blocked for two years. — Sibel Edmonds

18. Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know. — Tom Clancy

19. Information is the currency of democracy. — Thomas Jefferson

20. In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought. — Michael Crichton

21. For too long, information, opportunities, and resources have been constraints, they need to be the bridges. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

22. I definitely go on gut instinct but it has always had the back up of research and information. — Richard Branson

23. The poorest man around is not the fellow without a bank coin to his name, but the soul without the right information to orchestrate for himself the right future. — Ritchie Felix Prince .O

24. All information is good, even when it is bad. — Neil Degrasse Tyson

25. Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before. — Stan Lee

26. Welcome to the Information Jungle. — Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow

27. Painting isn’t a question of sensibility; it’s a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice. — Pablo Picasso

28. It’s impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. — William Gibson

29. Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern–recognition. — Marshall Mcluhan

30. Eyes as black and as shiny as chips of obsidian stared back into his. They were eyes like black holes, letting nothing out, not even information. — Neil Gaiman

31. I felt like I was living in some sort of video game and people pre–empting every move I made, obviously as a result of accessing my private information. — Sienna Miller

32. I definitely go on gut instinct but it has always had the back up of research and information. — Richard Branson

33. For too long, information, opportunities, and resources have been constraints, they need to be the bridges. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

34. But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don’t depend on information coming in from the senses. — Steven Pinker

35. It is time to know more about would–be terrorists, to profile for terrorists and to actively discriminate based on suspicious terrorist information. — Newt Gingrich

36. I don’t think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World. — Martin Sheen

37. If watson is going through a million documents, it can identIfy : what’s the information that’s most relevant given the problem that’s trying to be solved ? — Rob Thomas

38. Meditation leads you to your spiritual information, and takes you on a journey of getting to know yourself and your creations. — Mary Ellen Flora, Meditation: Key to Spiritual Awakening

39. If you can get your life down to one minute at a time, you don’t miss anything. You have total abundance of information and material. — Tracy Morgan

40. Two senior officials with direct access to the information. — Vladimir Putin

41. Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist’s job is very interesting. — Vladimir Putin

42. There’s a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across. — Rick Rubin

43. A piece of information can change a person. I’d hate to change the way I’m supposed to live the future. — Samantha Young, Slumber

44. But you know me–I’m an information magpie, always interested in shiny bits of intel. I’ve never gotten in trouble because of knowing too much. — Tim Pratt, Blood Engines

45. War is 90% information. — Napoleon Bonaparte

46. The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate. — Orrin Hatch

47. A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information. — Umberto Eco

48. As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when we are most intensely involved. — Marshall Mcluhan

49. Scientology does not teach you. It only reminds you. For the information was yours in the first place. — L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought

50. Every major technological innovation propels humanity forward to the point of no return. — Newton Lee, Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness

In conclusion, information is powerful and can be used in many ways to help us lead better, more informed lives. It can also be used to manipulate or deceive us, so it is important to use information wisely. Ultimately, information is a valuable resource and should be used responsibly.