Startup Quotes

Make a start, even if you have a controversial idea!

Investing in a startup does not make you an entrepreneur any more than buying a grand piano makes you a concert pianist.

Embrace iteration as the road to improvement, but don't let that lull you into rolling out poorly-thought-out crap.

It used to be said "Build it and they will come," now it is "Build it and bribe them in".

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Believe in that One Thing That Sets You Apart: your skill, your idea or just you, yourself ! And, Never Stop Believing.

A diligent hawker today, can be a great tycoon tomorrow

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Everyone has an idea. But it’s really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you work on the idea.

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

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.

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

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

It's called entrepreneurSHIP, not entrepreneurSTAY. Don't wait. Just ship.

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

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

Passion without knowledge and the desire to learn is foolishness

Abdulrahman Hariri

Regret nothing. Everything broken can be remade. And everything remade can once again be broken

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

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

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

Just like any other occupationEntrepreneurship also has stage of remorse.All you need to do is to go more deep to know yourcalling better!

The Startup Mojo

a good product is not the secret to success

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

Writing and achieving your goals is not failure, not having a goal to write in the first place is the start of failure.

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

Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

Jay Samit

For a long time, it was one of these things where—I was really much younger than now—my whole "brand" both to the investors and to our board members was this crazy Russian boy-genius who comes out and sprinkles magic dust on technology and things just work.

The moment you think you know something inside out, is the moment you stop listening. That's when you go backwards faster than you progressed

Act NOW on those ideas! As they say, you snooze you lose. Or as I say, if you BEGIN you WIN.

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.

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

If your sole focus is money, you may create a successful startup. But if it's impact, you can probably create history.

Sharad Vivek Sagar

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

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

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

No matter what your reason for wanting to start your own business, developing the foundation is the same. Laying a solid foundation for you business will provide you with a road map to follow as you build your business. As you work through the Start a Business Step-by-Step Workbook you will define the company’s mission, decide what business entity is right for your business, name your business, determine the pricing for your products or services, formulate your financial projections, define your competitors, survey consumers regarding your products or services, determine the marketing methods right for your business and more.

Jeanne A. Estes

If you can’t write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don’t have a clear idea.

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

Roger James Hamilton

Entrepreneurs don’t ask for permission. They act per a mission.

Be Shameless. Experiment. This is the only way to identify your true passion.

Vishwas Mudagal

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

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

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

You have to work on the business first before it works for you.

Idowu Koyenikan

Every startup is a SME but every SME is not a startup.

You NEED to learn how to fly before you learn how to land and you MUST learn how to land before you start flying.

Fear in the absence of knowledge breeds irrationality.We should always seek knowledge, even in the face of fear.

Biz Stone

An entrepreneur is someone who will jump off a cliff and assemble an airplane on the way down.

An entrepreneur without funding is a musician without an instrument.

Robert A. Rice Jr.

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

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.

Business ideas are like those flying dragons in Avatar. First you have to find one, let it choose you, then be brave enough to ride it.

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

There's so much to write. Where should I start?I texted my old Jiko this question, and she wrote me back this:'You should start where you are

Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

Jay Samit

Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.

Jay Samit

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