Built Quote by Lynda Resnick

Small and mid-sized companies in this country historically have been responsible for creating the overwhelming majority of new jobs in the private sector. One…

— Michael Milken

The biggest start-up successes - from Henry Ford to Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg - were pioneered by people from solidly middle-class backgrounds. These…

— Eric Ries

Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck.

— Guy Kawasaki

Quite often startups were first out of the gate with a sustaining technology. But somehow the leaders got the technology and stayed atop their…

— Clayton Christensen

Startups are the engines of exponential growth, manifesting the power of innovation. Several big companies today are startups of yesterday. They were born with…

— Narendra Modi

The great companies get built by their founders

— Marc Andreessen

I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world...…

— Mark Zuckerberg

Plenty of entrepreneurs can start a company. What is more rare is to evolve it and to scale with it over time.

— Andy Dunn

When business became big business - conglomerates employing hundreds and even thousands of people - companies divided themselves into still smaller units.

— Jill Lepore

Early-stage startups are all about the founders and team.

— Justin Kan

Most phenomenal startup teams create businesses that ultimately fail. Why? They built something that nobody wanted.

— Eric Ries

Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck. Call me a romantic, but I think entrepreneurs…

— Guy Kawasaki