Able Quote by Jim McKelvey

It takes years and years, usually a decade, to create a great startup.

— Sam Altman

Good startups usually take 10 years.

— Sam Altman

It took me about eight years to put together the program that I have been living for twenty years.

— Marilu Henner

The first year, I didn't have much capital so I did everything myself. I had to keep my overhead low by learning everything about…

— Li Ka-shing

In the early 2000s, we were finding at Amazon that software development projects were taking us longer than we thought they should. We decided…

— Andy Jassy

We generally acquire a company every three to four weeks on average. And so it's a rare month that there's not a company being…

— Tim Cook

It took 35 years, but the time was well spent and I think I have established a good stake in the future.

— Johnny Olson

I spent almost 25 years at Qualcomm before joining Microsoft, so in a sense, I grew up at one company. During that time, I…

— Peggy Johnson

When I started in the business in 1999 and 2000, we had companies that were going public in two, three or four years.

— David Sze

When when my first feature opportunity came along, I wasn't prepared, but we did it in about 17 days.

— Richard Donner

Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.

— Aaron Levie

We are really trying to move from being just a technology provider to being a partner with our customers.

— John L. Flannery