A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty. — Eric Ries
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
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
People often forget that startups are a controlled experiment. — Balaji Srinivasan
For startups, there’s so much pivoting that’s required that if you have a bunch of sheep, you’re in bad shape. — Adam Grant
Startups don’t fail because they lack a product; they fail because they lack customers and a profitable business model. — Steve Blank
Growing quickly through a highly effective marketing channel is crucial for most start-ups. — Cliff Lerner
In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks. — Scott Mcnealy
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
Don't do a startup unless you're ideologically driven to make it succeed beyond the economic motivation. — Balaji Srinivasan
There are three ways to change the world: government, religion, and startups. — Balaji Srinivasan
The goal of a start-up is not to stay a start-up. — Bernard Arnault
In the startup world, you have to be paranoid and delusional at the same time. — Balaji Srinivasan
Young entrepreneurs will make a difference in the Indian ecosystem. — Sayings
Entrepreneurs are notorious for “idea churn”—starting something new, only to abandon it for another idea. — Pat Flynn
Short Startups 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
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
Google only loves you when everyone else loves you first. — Brian Dean
By far the most common mistake startups make is to solve problems no one has.
Hiring Quotes
Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character. — Antonin Scalia
I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do. — Frank Gehry
You want to hire # entrepreneurs , people who are natural problem solvers -- the ones who see opportunity when most see impossibility. — Gurbaksh Chahal
Sell the problem you solve, not the product.
I saw a sign at a gas station. It said 'help wanted'. There was another sign below it that said 'self service'. So I hired myself. Then I made myself the boss. I gave myself a raise. I paid myself. Then I quit. — Steven Wright
I've said consistently that no employer ever really accepts a union. They tolerate the unions. The very minute they can get a pool of unemployment they'll challenge the unions and try to get back what they call managements prerogatives, meaning hire, fire, pay what you want. — Jimmy Hoffa
Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. — Farrah Gray
Entrepreneur = someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.
Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. — Daniel J. Boorstin
If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him. — Lou Holtz
If you can hire people whose passion intersects with the job, they won't require any supervision at all. They will manage themselves better than anyone could ever manage them. Their fire comes from within, not from without. Their motivation is internal, not external. — Stephen Covey
Success Motivational Quotes
If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard. — Madam C. J. Walker
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker
Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself. — Usain Bolt
A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it’s not that good.
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. — Earl Nightingale
Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. — Nido R Qubein
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there. — Zig Ziglar
If you have an idea that you can’t get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup.
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. — Nora Roberts
Success is not an accident, success is actually a choice. — Stephen Curry
If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose. — T. D. Jakes
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. — Henry David Thoreau
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. — Mark Twain
It's better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month. — Lewis Grizzard
Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way. — Martin Luther King
Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake. — Voltaire
Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear. — Hippocrates
I don't do great things. I do small things with great love. — Mother Teresa
It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action. — Fidel Castro
Entrepreneur Quotes
If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die. — Warren Buffett
Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage. — Victor Kiam
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it. — Abraham Lincoln
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope. — Barack Obama
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. — Peter Drucker
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. — Stevie Wonder
God will take care of what you go through. You take care of how you go through it. — Zig Ziglar
God created war so that Americans would learn geography. — Mark Twain
The Importance Of Startups Quotes
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
A startup is the largest endeavor over which you can have definite mastery. You can have agency not just over your own life, but over a small and important part of the world. It begins by rejecting the unjust tyranny of Chance. You are not a lottery ticket. — Peter Thiel
There are a lot of music startups that don't have anything to do with anyone's love for music. It has to do with them having a glorious IPO and then retiring to the Bahamas somewhere. It's important to keep that in mind. — DJ Shadow
There are certain zip codes that generate a disproportionate share of patents, of startups, of wealth, of jobs. And it's really important if other parts of the country are going to want to create these tech centers. — Juan Enriquez
Good Quotes
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. — Bernard Meltzer
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. — Steven Weinberg
I've had good times and I've had bad times and I reminisce, maybe when I lay down, but throughout my day I keep myself engulfed in whatever moment I'm in because it could steer me into a depressed state. — Kevin Gates
No matter how successful you become you gotta keep grindin' and be a good person and then good things will come to you. — Meek Mill
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. — Ann Landers
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. — Winston Churchill
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. My teacher was Ferruccio Cusinati — Maria Callas
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius
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
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
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
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
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
If your digital supply chain is better than your competitors’, you’ll be in a much stronger position to succeed. — Jeff Lawson
Entrepreneurship Quotes
If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big! — Donald Trump
One of my great pleasures from the study of investing, finance, and economics is the discovery of insights about people and society. — Edward O. Thorp
If you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much space. — Stephen Hunt
A lot of people think you can go to school and you can study for how to make money, but the reality is, there’s no skill called business. — Naval Ravikant
As a profession, entrepreneurship breeds anything but balance. The highs can be stratospheric, and the lows can be crushing. — Lewis Howes
Think big, think fast, think ahead. Ideas are no one's monopoly. — Dhirubhai Ambani
I’m going to be an entrepreneur so I can be free. Free to do whatever I want, whenever I want, with whomever I want. — Alex Hormozi
Embrace accountability, and take business risks under your own name. — Naval Ravikant
A talented entrepreneur with bad habits eventually becomes an employee. An average employee with great habits can eventually become a great entrepreneur. — Patrick Bet-David
The thing that kills entrepreneurs faster than failure is boredom. — Tom Bilyeu
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
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
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
Content marketing is not about expensive and elaborate campaigns. It’s about getting the basics right. — Brian Clark
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
School taught me how to do a 9-5 job rather than be a person who wants to start a business. — KSI
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
I left Jane Street Capital to start on my own ideas and got into crypto. — Sam Bankman-Fried
For me being a company of one means not having to bother with infinite growth. — Paul Jarvis
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
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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