Startups Quotes · Page 3

“Love is the surprising emotion that company builders cannot ignore.”

— Brian de Haaff

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

— Paul Graham

We can never have enough startups that are pursuing unique solutions to important problems.

— Chris Yeh

“These startups try to exploit inefficiencies in novel ways.”

— Kevin Kelly

The best Startups don't create noise. They create a gravitational pull.

— Wayne Chang

“Almost every failed startup has a product. What failed startups don’t have are enough customers.”

— Gabriel Weinberg

“Entrepreneurship is not a theory, it is an experiment.”

— Amit Kalantri

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

— Dee Dee Artner

The fact is that the amount of money startups raise in their seed and Series A rounds is inversely correlated with success

— Fred Wilson

“If I haven't already inspired you to make changes, take healthy risks, and help others, I have more work to do.”

— Marion Bekoe

“Startups don’t fail because they lack a product; they fail because they lack customers and a proven financial model. This”

— Steven Gary Blank

Startups are all about breaking the rules and changing the 'natural order' of things. So let's do that for Series A terms.

— Gil Penchina

By definition, startups are not constrained by the limits of established company culture. And so they push boundaries and develop new technologies…

— J. B. Pritzker

“You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to…

— Paul Graham

Startups don’t fail because they lack a product; they fail because they lack customers and a profitable business model.

— Steve Blank

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

— David Cohen

“Paranoia is acceptable in the new friendship paradigm. Worrying that your best employees or customers might leave is ok, as long as…

— Kevin Kelly

I do believe that most startups who develop applications and digital products design 'towards the middle.' By this, I mean they design…

— Kimberly Bryant

The problems that you see startups tackling are dramatically different in different cities. Silicon Valley is unlikely to produce the same set…

— Andrew Yang

Before I started Code for America, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, small teams trying to make…

— Jennifer Pahlka

You can fake a lot in a startup these days, what with Amazon Web Services and all sorts of off-the-shelf back-end components…

— Antonio Garcia Martinez

You can make something big when young that will carry you through life. Look at all the big startups like Microsoft, Apple,…

— Steve Wozniak

“When you run a business, your business is totally different from others. This means your lifestyle, your routine and what you make…

— Dee Dee Artner

A recipe I've seen work in early-stage startups is a small tight-knit group of passionate people who are obsessed with their vision…

— Joe Lonsdale

We want to nurture startups on our platform, just like we did in the old world.

— Safra A. Catz

In technology startups, there's a lot of winging it.

— Harper Reed

The startups that do well are the ones that are working all the time.

— Sam Altman

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

— Sam Altman

Darwinism may be a fine theory in other contexts, but in startups, intelligent design works best.

— Peter Thiel

“Life's too short to build something nobody wants.”

— Ash Maurya

“When you walk in silence your excellence will always speak for you.”

— Onyi Anyado

By definition startups usually do not turn a profit.

— Kevin Harrington

'Bazillion Dollar Club' follows six struggling startups trying to get their products together.

— Dave McClure

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

— Jagadish Varadharajan

“If your dream is at the end of a rainbow you’ll never reach it.”

— Richie Norton

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

— Sam Altman

Enterprises have customers! Ask them for feedback and you can compete with startups!

— Colin Humphreys

“When you were making excuses someone else was making enterprise.”

— Amit Kalantri

“The more customers you keep, the fewer customers you have to find.”

— Amit Kalantri

I have seen a lot of now-great companies at their earliest stages, and these early-stage startups are not built by the senior…

— Joe Lonsdale