100 Quotes About Startup

Here was a particular kind of energy in those early days, something I've only really found in startups. The regulars - the boring 9-to-5 people - haven’t invaded the world yet. All around you are people who practically buzz with mental adrenaline - the kind of people who sneer at words like policy and dress code and fill the office at nights with pizza and bad jokes and the relentless tip-tack-clack of keyboards. They push boundaries, turn small ideas into game-changers and small arguments into fistfights. No company can last forever this way: it’s a bit like being in a cage. Eventually the strange ones move out and give way to order and conformity and all the things that make for a smoothly operating machine. But that brief chaos is what really gives a company its soul. . Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

Love is the surprising emotion that company builders cannot ignore. Brian De Haaff

Rhetorical question: Did you get to where you are by accepting the status quo? I didn't. Richie Norton

I’m a firm believer that most people who do great things are doing them for the first time. Returning to my theory of hiring, I’d rather have someone all fired up to do something for the first time than someone who’s done it before and isn’t that excited to do it again. You rarely go wrong giving someone who is high potential the shot. Marc Andreessen

Entrepreneur, if your going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind. Onyi Anyado

In a world hooked in "Start-ups"She was his final "Settle-down"-The Drenched Writer Shonali Dey

To all young people out there: This is the time you should be fearless but not jobless. Identify the right job, find what excited you the most, find what you are the most passionate about. Sharad Vivek Sagar

It’s hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower. Paul Graham

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

Rebels revel in rewriting reality's restrictions. Ryan Lilly

When it's about your life, it's time to be selfish. Dee Dee Artner

Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something & give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing. Ryan Lilly

Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something and give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing. Ryan Lilly

Do what you love and love what you do, with excellence. Onyi Anyado

Entrepreneurship is like a weighing machine whose load content should tilt towards passion to solve a pressing need, more than passion to make money. AuliqIce

Entrepreneurship is all about making life easier for humanity, while money becomes a bye-product. AuliqIce

You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible. Most startups that fail do it because they fail at one of these. A startup that does all three will probably succeed.' [Paul Graham] Alexis Ohanian

If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people. But if you’re willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you’re now competing against a fraction of those people… Just by lengthening the time horizon, you can engage in endeavors that you could never otherwise pursue Jeff Bezos

People are bad at looking at seeds and guessing what size tree will grow out of them. The way you’ll get big ideas in, say, health care is by starting out with small ideas. If you try to do some big thing, you don’t just need it to be big; you need it to be good. And it’s really hard to do big and good simultaneously. So, what that means is you can either do something small and good and then gradually make it bigger, or do something big and bad and gradually make it better. And you know what? Empirically, starting big just does not work. That’s the way the government does things. They do something really big that’s really bad, and they think, Well, we’ll make it better, and then it never gets better”. Building Fast Companies for Growth, Inc. September 2013. Paul Graham

Most startups eventually pivot to adjust to what the market is telling them. Alejandro Cremades

Entrepreneur, noun: someone who takes calculated risks to add value to wider society with the hope of making money and building wealth M. James Airey

Entrepreneurs pay the price of a road less traveled, while everyone else takes the freeway and perpetually misses their own exit. Ryan Lilly

Entrepreneur, if you're going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind Onyi Anyado

Most startups actually start down and only go up if they catch the winds of market demand. Ryan Lilly

When you run a business, your business is totally different from others. This means your lifestyle, your routine and what you make out of your business is totally different. You lead a different life compared to those in your neighborhood and the people you knew around your business circle. Dee Dee Artner

It’s not about the content we are creating but how much content our customers are creating for us. Roger James Hamilton

1. Do consumers recognize that they have the problem you are trying to solve?2. If there was a solution, would they buy it?3. Would they buy it from us?4. Can we build a solution for that problem? Ries Eric

Entrepreneurs see what others can't, do what others won't, and accomplish what others dream. Ryan Lilly

The really dramatic growth happens when a startup only has three of four people, so only three or four people see that, whereas tens of thousands see business as it's practiced by Boeing or Philip Morris. Jessica Livingston

Until you become so passionate about you and your business no one will. You are your first cheerleader and business promoter. Bernard Kelvin Clive

A person who doesn't have a structured way of writing their goals will experience disorder, even in the comfort zone. Onyi Anyado

Yesterday is a pile of rubble. Today is a pile of opportunity. Life takes a new dump each morning Ryan Lilly

A product in the marketplace is the result of thought in an inner space and action more than the common place. Ryan Lilly

Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones? Onyi Anyado

When strategy, culture, and brand harmonize, they amplify one another and resonate loud and clear. Unknown

We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn't about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best. Ryan Lilly

You do not necessarily have to get before you do but when you do, you shall get Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry. Ryan Lilly

..determination is the most important quality in a founder, open-mindedness and willingness to change your idea are key, and all startups face rejection at first. Jessica Livingston

The most important thing is not to let fundraising get you down. Startups live or die on morale. If you let the difficulty of raising money destroy your morale, it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Paul Graham

Every day is full of opportunities, but an opportunity is full of only so many days. Ryan Lilly

Jean-Baptiste Say may have coined the term 'entrepreneur' but he totally missed the opportunity to put it on a t-shirt and sell it. Ryan Lilly

Even in zazen you will lose yourself. When you become sleepy, or when your mind starts to wander about, you lose yourself. When your legs become painful–“ Why are my legs so painful?”–you lose yourself. ”-“You just sit in the midst of the problem; when you are a part of the problem, or when the problem is a part of you, there is no problem, because you are the problem itself. The problem is you yourself. If this is so, there is no problem.”-“ When you start to wander about in some delusion which is something apart from you yourself, then your surroundings are not real anymore, and your mind is not real anymore. If you yourself are deluded, then your surroundings are also a misty, foggy delusion. Once you are in the midst of delusion, there is no end to delusion. You will be involved in deluded ideas one after another. Most people live in delusion, involved in their problem, trying to solve their problem. But just to live is actually to live in problems. And to solve the problem is to be a part of it, to be one with it. Shunryu Suzuki

The goal - at least the way I think about entrepreneurship - is you realize one day that you can't really work anyone else. You have to start your own thing. It almost doesn't matter what the thing is. We had six different business plan changes, and then the last one was PayPal.If that one didn't work out, if we still had the money and the people, obviously we would not have given up. We would have iterated on the business model and done something else. I don't think there was ever clarity as to who we were until we knew it was working. By then, we'd figured out our PR pitch and told everyone what we do and who we are. But between the founding and the actual PayPal, it was just like this tug-of-war where it was like, "We're trying this, this week." Every week you go to investors and say, "We're doing this, exactly this. We're really focused. We're going to be huge." The next week you're like, "That was a lie. . Jessica Livingston

It is best to be the CEO; it is satisfactory to be an early employee, maybe the fifth or sixth or perhaps the tenth. Alternately, one may become an engineer devising precious algorithms in the cloisters of Google and its like. Otherwise, one becomes a mere employee. A coder of websites at Facebook is no one in particular. A manager at Microsoft is no one. A person (think woman) working in customer relations is a particular type of no one, banished to the bottom, as always, for having spoken directly to a non-technical human being. All these and others are ways for strivers to fall by the wayside – as the startup culture sees it – while their betters race ahead of them. Those left behind may see themselves as ordinary, even failures. Ellen Ullman

What did journalists know of tech, anyway? Who gave a damn about the press? We were the Good Guys. Changing the World. Doing the Important Stuff. Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

Try to imagine the calamity of that: Zack, age twenty-eight, with no management experience, gets training from Dave, a weekend rock guitarist, on how to apply a set of fundamentally unsound psychological principles as a way to manipulate the people who report to him. Dan Lyons

A lot of the machines that Google is built on–commodity is the polite word for them–they're regular PCs and so they're not always the most reliable. Jessica Livingston

Paul Buchheit: Then you have what we do with PCs, and that's technically pretty challenging–to take this big network of machines that are unreliable and build a big, reliable storage system out of it. Jessica Livingston

An "eye" on the vision is more important than an "I" on the vision. Sharad Vivek Sagar

For any creative thought to be contagious, it must first be worthy of a sneeze. Ryan Lilly

My best ideas come in the shower, where I’m showered with water, but also ideas. Ryan Lilly

Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effort, moment after moment, is our way. In an exact sense, the only thing we actually can study in our life is that on which we are working in each moment. We cannot even study Buddha’s words.”-“ So we should be concentrated with our full mind and body on what we do; and we should be faithful, subjectively and objectively, to ourselves, and especially to our feelings. Even when you do not feel so well, it is better to express how you feel without any particular attachment or intention. So you may say, “Oh, I am sorry, I do not feel well. . Shunryu Suzuki

Even though you read much Zen literature, you must read each sentence with a fresh mind. You should not say, “I know what Zen is, ” or “I have attained enlightenment.” This is also the real secret of the arts: always be a beginner.”-“ When you are sitting in the middle of your own problem, which is more real to you: your problem or you yourself? The awareness that you are here, right now, is the ultimate fact. ”-“Knowing that your life is short, to enjoy it day after day, moment after moment, is the life of “form is form and emptiness is emptiness.”-“ You may feel as if you are doing something special, but actually it is only the expression of your true nature; it is the activity which appeases your inmost desire. But as long as you think you are practicing zazen for the sake of something, that is not true practice.”-“ The most important thing is to forget all gaining ideas, all dualistic ideas. In other words, just practice zazen in a certain posture. Shunryu Suzuki

A good product is not the secret to success Hadi Farnoud

If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far go together", African Proverb Paul Oberschneider

If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together" African Proverb Paul Oberschneider

If you you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together. African Proverb Paul Oberschneider

Some people say, "What difference does it make what color the winemaker is that made the wine? Judge the wines off their own merit." Like, of course. And I do believe that my wine is judged off its own merit. But the fact is that when you walk into places and people can't believe that you're the principal or you're the owner or you made the wine, it's mind-blowing to me some days. It's like, wow. That's why we need to continue talking about it. Andre Hueston Mack

Entrepreneurship is a scary city! NO water- dig wells, NO food- plant trees, NO family- build one, NO identity- prove yourself. Jasleen Kaur Gumber

We’ve all been in positions where we felt out of place or not accepted for whatever reason. For me, that’s been my life. I’ve always been that person that stood out. And what makes you an outcast is what makes you unique, and you should harness that. Being a black sheep gives you creative license to do sh*t differently. Andre Hueston Mack

At the end of the day, it's just grape juice. No one needs anything that I make. The last thing we need is another wine on the shelf. So that just makes me grateful for the people who do enjoy it. Andre Hueston Mack

I feel like you can’t judge a book by its cover, that’s always been the story of my life. I can walk into any restaurant and people would be floored to learn that I know what I do about wine, let alone that I ran one of the best wine programs in the world. Andre Hueston Mack

One of the best ways to attract capital is to outperform the competition. Alejandro Cremades

The best entrepreneurs are not the best visionaries. The greatest entrepreneurs are incredible salespeople. They know how to tell an amazing story that will convince talent and investors to join in on the journey. Alejandro Cremades

Learning to embrace and savor rejection is one of the best things that entrepreneurs can do. Launching a startup is the time to find your ever-optimistic inner child again. Alejandro Cremades

Business is still more often about whom you know, not what you know. Alejandro Cremades

Ideas are meaningless without a masterful execution. Alejandro Cremades

Don’t expect investors to be throwing millions on the table for you to go off and buy a bigger house, get a new car, party half the week away, and generally upgrade your lifestyle. Alejandro Cremades

If you want to glide toward money, you have to make sure your message is clear as a bell, and you need to ensure that you have a unified team capable of communicating it. Alejandro Cremades

The goal - at least the way I think about entrepreneurship - is you realize one day that you can't really work anyone else. You have to start your won thing. It almost doesn't matter what the thing is. We had six different business plan changes, and then the last one was PayPal.If that one didn't work out, if we still had the money and the people, obviously we would not have given up. We would have iterated on the business model and done something else. I don't think there was ever clarity as to who we were until we knew it was working. By then, we'd figured out our PR pitch and told everyone what we do and who we are. But between the founding and the actual PayPal, it was just like this tug-of-war where it was like, "We're trying this, this week." Every week you go to investors and say, "We're doing this, exactly this. We're really focused. We're going to be huge." The next week you're like, "That was a lie. . Jessica Livingston

Business success requires business preparation. You don't have to be a master tactician, but you do need to have a plan in place. This plan will act as a foundation for everything you want to achieve. Alejandro Cremades

This is what entrepreneurship is all about. You start off operating from a garage. And, end up, operating from a car. Sharad Vivek Sagar

If you take one typewriter and build 100, you’ve made horizontal progress. If you have a typewriter and build a word processor, you have made vertical progress. Peter Thiel

Entrepreneur, if your're going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind. Onyi Anyado

Entrepreneur, if you're going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind. Onyi Anyado

Part of the reward of entrepreneurship lies in having the courage to believe in yourself and take action. Timothy Freriks

When you walk in silence your excellence will always speak for you. Onyi Anyado

Gamblers take blind risks. Entrepreneurs take risks while visually impaired and feel their way up and out. Ryan Lilly

People think entrepreneurs are all about fame and money. I was never in for either. And, will never be. This is a much bigger fight. Sharad Vivek Sagar

Proformas rarely perform; missed projections are more often the norm. Still, we skew them up high, we miss but we try, for proformas which rarely perform. Ryan Lilly

Each year about 600, 000 start-ups are launched. Less than 0.5 percent attract VC. Of Inc. magazine's annual list of the 500 fastest growing companies in the United States assessed over a decade (1997—2007), less than 20 percent of companies were venture backed” -“62.4 percent of VC investments were completely lost while 3.1 percent of the investments accounted for 53 percent of the profits for roughly 600 investments. Mahendra Ramsinghani

If you want to make money at some point, remember this, because this is one of the reasons startups win. Big companies want to decrease the standard deviation of design outcomes because they want to avoid disasters. But when you damp oscillations, you lose the high points as well as the low. This is not a problem for big companies, because they don't win by making great products. Big companies win by sucking less than other big companies.”-“ The place to fight design wars is in new markets, where no one has yet managed to establish any fortifications. That's where you can win big by taking the bold approach to design, and having the same people both design and implement the product. Microsoft themselves did this at the start. So did Apple. And Hewlett- Packard. I suspect almost every successful startup has.”-“ Great software, likewise, requires a fanatical devotion to beauty. If you look inside good software, you find that parts no one is ever supposed to see are beautiful too.”-“ The right way to collaborate, I think, is to divide projects into sharply defined modules, each with a definite owner, and with interfaces between them that are as carefully designed and, if possible, as articulated as programming languages. Like painting, most software is intended for a human audience. And so hackers, like painters, must have empathy to do really great work. You have to be able to see things from the user's point of view.”-“ It turns out that looking at things from other people's point of view is practically the secret of success.”-“ Part of what software has to do is explain itself. So to write good software you have to understand how little users understand. They're going to walk up to the software with no preparation, and it had better do what they guess it will, because they're not going to read the manual. . Paul Graham

A good portfolio manager knows which companies to keep and which ones to let go. Many a GP has struggled with portfolio companies that cannot meet their value-creation milestones, or raise additional follow-on rounds of capital, or generate target returns in a time span of, say, five to seven years. The faster you recognize those losses, the better it is.”-“ As David Cowan says, “Just focus on your top five–the rest is distraction.” The harder part of the investor's discipline is to know when to quit.”-“ You have to constantly scan all of those things and be willing to adjust your own sense of what's a reasonable outcome and move the company into a position where it has the maximum chance to succeed. ”-“Time is your enemy: Portfolio companies always take twice as much capital and twice as long to exit. Early-stage companies rarely meet milestones as planned and always burn cash faster than anticipated. Mahendra Ramsinghani

Passion is the most expensive currency in the world! Start convincing others to get richer. A passionate team can achieve anything. other currencies come later. Hadi Farnoud

Amidst all the hype and hoopla around this business, I wanted to emphasize the challenge–it is seductive but the failure rate is very high. And those who fail have no good place to go. Mahendra Ramsinghani

Attention deficit is no longer the supposed domain of Generation Y’s who were brought up on a diet of social media and new technology. A recent study revealed 65 percent of 55-64 year olds surf, text and watch television simultaneously. Unknown

In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge for the modern entrepreneur is to take that path. Unknown

My major goal in business was to learn. I had legislated in my mind for failure the worse possible scenario was I would learn a lot regardless of the outcome. This goal was the foundation for success of the business. Peldi, Balsamiq Unknown

Willingness to learn is important, willingness to act on what you learn is critical. Unknown

The challenge for the entrepreneur is to find your passion and make fear history. Unknown

Sometimes you live life, and sometimes life happens to you. But you always get to choose what you do about it.” Devon Brooks Unknown