90 Startup Quotes
Following is our list of startup quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about innovation startup.
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Famous Startup Quotes
A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty. — Eric Ries
Invest in startups. Start a company. Create a book, podcast, video. Create a software product. go on many first dates. go to a cocktail party. read a lindy book. move to a big city. buy bitcoin. tweet. — Naval Ravikant
In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems. — Saul Alinsky
In startups, when faced with the choice between an easy and a hard path, the hard one tends to be where the value gets created. — Greg Brockman
Every startup has a chance to change the world, by bringing not just a new product, but an entirely new institution into existence. — Eric Ries
Everybody gangsta until real-world deployment in production. — Andrej Karpathy
Successful entrepreneurs don't wait for the perfect moment - they create it — Richard Branson
People often forget that startups are a controlled experiment. — Balaji Srinivasan
Everything begins with an idea. — Earl Nightingale
In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks. — Scott Mcnealy
In the startup world, you have to be paranoid and delusional at the same time. — Balaji Srinivasan
Growing quickly through a highly effective marketing channel is crucial for most start-ups. — Cliff Lerner
The true entrepreneur is a doer — Nolan Bushnell
Don't do a startup unless you're ideologically driven to make it succeed beyond the economic motivation. — Balaji Srinivasan
Every journey starts with a single step. — Confucius
Short Startup Quotes
- Betting your future on old-line companies is riskier than joining with entrepreneurs and startups. — Cathie Wood
- Common mistake in a startup is to serialize subprojects that could be parallelized. — Greg Brockman
- There are three ways to change the world: government, religion, and startups. — Balaji Srinivasan
- A Company of One is simply a business that questions growth. — Paul Jarvis
- When brands run podcasts, they stand a chance of taking their success to the next level. — Vladimer Botsvadze
- Great founders don’t do what they love; they enable a vision. — Rand Fishkin
- In the last month, we have been extremely active in speaking to a wide range of potential customers. — Bill Miller
- Once you’ve figured out how much start-up capital you need, double it. — Cliff Lerner
- Secret for moving fast at a startup: don't do tomorrow what could be done today. — Greg Brockman
- Learn how to validate an idea with as little time and financial investment as possible. — Cliff Lerner
Business Startup Quotes
If you are a company of one, your mind-set is to build your business around your life, not the other way around. — Paul Jarvis
One of the most common mistakes people make is massively underestimating the amount of money they need to start a business and get traction. — Cliff Lerner
School taught me how to do a 9-5 job rather than be a person who wants to start a business. — KSI
Just start small with what you have and you can grow the business. — Folorunsho Alakija
Much like Airbnb and Uber disrupted their relevant businesses, we can lower the bar for people to enter into the telecommunications market. — Micky Watkins
Social media opens the floodgates to business owners to maximize their success. — Vladimer Botsvadze
A Company of One is not anti-growth, or anti-revenue, and it’s not just a one-person business either (although it certainly can be). — Paul Jarvis
Apart from creating a vibrant branded Twitter account for your startup, business owners should consider creating their own personal account on Twitter. — Lewis Howes
I don’t think Indian e-commerce companies have an evolved business model. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
Ultimately, the business that can spend the most to acquire a customer wins. — Russell Brunson
Innovation Startup Quotes
At Twilio, I often say ‘our strategy is simple: build things our customers want for which they’ll pay us.’ — Jeff Lawson
Digital transformation helps create new jobs, improves profits, and half of all revenues are influenced by digital. — Vladimer Botsvadze
In a digital economy, where social media and mobile are the bedrock of the competitive advantage, investing in digital transformation is of paramount importance. — Vladimer Botsvadze
If your digital supply chain is better than your competitors’, you’ll be in a much stronger position to succeed. — Jeff Lawson
Thing that kills an entrepreneurial, experimental culture is when people get punished for running an experiment that proves a hypothesis false. — Jeff Lawson
I stumbled across the 3.7 billion people around the world who are unconnected and this became a heavy focus, hence World Mobile today. — Micky Watkins
I left Jane Street Capital to start on my own ideas and got into crypto. — Sam Bankman-Fried
If possible, build your expertise before you build your network, and build your network before you build your company. — Rand Fishkin
Many of today’s billion-dollar companies succeeded by growing on top of other platforms. — Cliff Lerner
We also started asking all new employees to build an app using Twilio—not just the developers, everybody. — Jeff Lawson
People Writing About Startup
More Startup Quotes
The thing that I often ask startups on top of Ethereum is, 'Can you please tell me why using the Ethereum blockchain is better than using Excel?' — Vitalik Buterin
If you're trying to get to profitability by lowering costs as a startup, then you are in a very precarious and difficult position. — Chamath Palihapitiya
Digital acceleration also occurs in the health sector. Currently the interaction between doctors and patients is facilitated through digital platforms. This can increase the quality of health access especially for areas with limited medical personnel and promote the growth and development of startups in the health sector. — Joko Widodo
Market history is filled with examples of companies that returned over 100x on an initial investment. The difficulty is in finding and holding on to those companies over many years. — Thomas Phelps
I decided to come to the U.S. in the mid ’90s because the Internet, which I knew was the wave of the future, was red hot here, but hadn’t yet taken off in China. — Eric Yuan
Your first few hires will set the tone for your culture. Secure elite talent ASAP and hire carefully. — Cliff Lerner
Marriage is risky. Staying single is riskier. Having children is risky. Being childless is riskier. Believing in God is risky. Not believing in God riskier. Discussing politics is risky. Being silent about politics is riskier. Being part of a startup is risky. Choosing a safe route is riskier. It’s not the risk that’s scary. It’s the commitments that come with the risk. Choose your commitments wisely. — Patrick Bet-David
My journey with Zoom began with a desire for the independence to build something that would make users happy, a true video-first unified communications platform. — Eric Yuan
Content marketing is not about expensive and elaborate campaigns. It’s about getting the basics right. — Brian Clark
Google only loves you when everyone else loves you first. — Brian Dean
So, generally, the Silicon Valley startup model tends to work best. It’s not the only way, but it is probably the most common way, when you have two founders, one of whom is world class at selling, and one of whom is world class at building. — Naval Ravikant
The thing that I often ask startups on top of Ethereum is, 'Can you please tell me why using the Ethereum blockchain is better than using Excel?' And if they can come up with a good answer, that's when you know you've got something really interesting. — Vitalik Buterin
I helped several of my competitors get started. People seem to think we ought to hate each other, but we’ve stayed good friends. — Glen Bell
Stop comparing yourself to people who started ten years before you. Focus on your own journey. — Russell Brunson
For me being a company of one means not having to bother with infinite growth. — Paul Jarvis
We are absolutely dedicated to rebooting the telecoms industry through the sharing economy. — Micky Watkins
Top brands and startups need to create content consistently across 8 to 10 social media networks to win in the long term. — Vladimer Botsvadze
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