Afraid Quote by Gillian Tans

Ultimately, I didn't quite find the company I wanted to join, but I met more than 100 entrepreneurs and realized that all these entrepreneurs…

— Katrina Lake

I have this passion for building things, so I always wanted to build a startup. I always wanted to start my own company.

— Ananya Birla

Working at a startup to make a lot of money was never a thing, and that's why I decided to just finish up school.…

— Kevin Systrom

I was always really interested in startups and fascinated by what they were working on.

— Christine Tsai

Please don’t get hung up on this question of whether you need to have experience in an industry before you launch your startup.

— Richard Branson

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

— Sam Altman

By the way, that's my number one piece of advice if you're going to join a startup: pick a rocket ship.

— Sam Altman

I had always wanted to start a company, ever since I was very young.

— Eric Yuan

I wish I had known the value of interning at a startup before starting my own. There is so much I could have learned…

— Caroline Ghosn

When you're a startup, your edge is that you don't have that many customers. So you can build a really strong relationship with them.

— Justin Kan

I succeeded at venture capital because, for years, I rarely thought about or spent time on anything else. Anything less than that unmitigated full…

— Chris Sacca

What's crucial is to never get stuck. Making hard decisions is such an important part of being a startup in order to keep moving…

— Payal Kadakia