Doing startups is all about making mistakes.

Most startups are not just built for the person who is using them. When you do that, every now and then you get really…

— Emmett Shear

I think co-working spaces, incubators, and accelerators outside of the Bay Area do a lot to foster a local startup scene - which is…

— Michael Seibel

Startups are very hard no matter what you do; you may as well go after a big opportunity.

— Sam Altman

Learning is the essential unit of progress for startups.

— Eric Ries

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

— Dee Dee Artner

Startups are not the best choice for work-life balance, and that's sort of just the sad reality.

— Sam Altman

“Chase the needs, and you are halfway to entrepreneurship.”

— Jagadish Varadharajan

It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I…

— Steve Jobs

“Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make…

— Shunryu Suzuki

My attitude is there are at least hundreds of interesting startups that are going to get going in every year.

— David Cohen

The thing that kills startups at some level, is the founders giving up.

— Sam Altman

Cool innovation might happen in startups, but they often lack the resources or the deep expertise in the problems they want to address.

— Hilary Mason

One thing I tell startups all the time is that the best way to grow is to make their product better.

— Sam Altman

“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.…

— Mahendra Ramsinghani

Startups Are Hard. So Work More, Cry Less, And Quit All The Whining

— Michael Arrington