Entrepreneurship Quote by Patrick Collison Download Open image “In life, in the media, and everything, people focus way too much on founders.” — Patrick Collison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Entrepreneurship Everything Focus Life Media Way
The media often glamorizes successful founders and makes their paths seem easier than they actually were. — Jessica Livingston Copy Share Image
The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Whatever the founder cares about, whatever the founders think are the key goals, that's going to be what the whole company focusses on. — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
Most good founders that I know at any given time have a set of small overarching goals for the company that everybody in the… — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
Founders should think of their company as a product and build it and shape it with the same passion and care. — Roelof Botha Copy Share Image
Too often, founders make decisions before determining whether they are the right thing to do. These decisions often create chaos in their companies where… — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards. — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
The track record for founders that don't already know each other is really bad. — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
Every thing at a startup gets modeled after the founders. Whatever the founders do becomes the culture. — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
I think motivation and drive, coupled with raw talent, help make founders successful. — David Cohen Copy Share Image
Founders are exceptional, and they all want to go back to creating. And I feel privileged to be able to do that. — Payal Kadakia Copy Share Image
Interest in the Founders has risen and fallen over time, as has admiration for them and their accomplishments. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Silicon Valley does not breed great technology. Instead, the smartest people from around the world tend to move to Silicon Valley. — Patrick Collison Copy Share Image
At most large companies, what is locally optimal for you is very frequently not what is globally optimal for the company. — Patrick Collison Copy Share Image
I think in general technology always sort of makes some jobs less relevant, or perhaps, even obsolete, but I will say that the idea… — Patrick Collison Copy Share Image
I think that Stripe generally is comprised of the kind of people who believe in technology or are kind of optimistic about its effect… — Patrick Collison Copy Share Image
We don't always endorse what businesses sell through Stripe, but we do think it's critical that we and our peers don't act as gatekeepers… — Patrick Collison Copy Share Image
I started Stripe with my brother John Collison while we were in school together. We first started off building iPhone apps together and using… — Patrick Collison Copy Share Image
Being a public company certainly doesn't stop you from taking a really long-term time horizon, but it does make it more difficult. — Patrick Collison Copy Share Image
What interests us in Stripe is the idea that there could much more commerce happening on the Internet. — Patrick Collison Copy Share Image
'Entrepreneur' is a long, fancy French word, but it didn't seem like something you aspire to. It seemed normal, because whatever your parents do… — Patrick Collison Copy Share Image
If you want to hire the best people, the best people are already doing pretty impressive things. They have their life plans, their picture… — Patrick Collison Copy Share Image
It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions. — Patrick Collison Copy Share Image
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“So Mack got kind of a late start in the startup world—he founded TakeOff at the ripe old age of twenty-five” — Doree Shafrir Copy Share Image
“I would have been trying to pitch a concept about my community to someone that most likely was not a part of that community.” — Lamar Tyler Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What is entrepreneurship, after all? Bigness is not the issue. Poor people are the ones who take challenges every day. The guy who sells… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“I am a Software engineer by profession, Photographer by passion and An entrepreneur by Thinking ...! CEO, Founder of www.bibliofreaks.com - The online store… — Ganesh Copy Share Image
“Every founder has a plan until it’s time to launch. I launch first and plan later, we’re not the same.” — Marion Bekoe Copy Share Image
“A responsible woman doesn’t see opportunities and needs and look the other way pretending not to see them rather she gets to work to… — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
The big thing was realizing for myself that I had tied my ego to the outcomes and to startups. — Justin Kan Copy Share Image
