Startups Quotes - Page 2

..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

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

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

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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?

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

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

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

Roger James Hamilton

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.

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.

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

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

Alejandro Cremades

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

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]

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

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

Auliq-Ice

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

Auliq-Ice

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.

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

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

Rebels revel in rewriting reality's restrictions.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love is the surprising emotion that company builders cannot ignore.

When the going gets tough, people bail. When the going gets easy, people get lazy. Honest, smart, hard work is the way to get results.

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

We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In chaos is where learning happens the most.

Fail early, fail often.

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

Biz Stone

When you were making excuses someone else was making enterprise.

Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.