Launch Quotes

Looking back, I now realize that I left home in search of all the things that were right in the very place I left.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

After the launch phase, your product is old news. Take advantage of the opportunity to generate interest when your product is new.

~ Brian Lawley

With the consumer Internet, if you're not embarrassed by your first product release, you've launched too late. Everyone wants their product to be shiny, great, and revolutionary, so they take too long in the development cycle to build this really shiny thing, when in fact time really matters.

~ Reid Hoffman

When I decided to launch my first knitwear line, it was because I saw a void in the basics category. The editors were always looking for cool, fashion-forward tees and sweaters. So that's where I started.

~ Alexander Wang

In the four years since its launch, Kepler has chalked up 122 new and confirmed planets. It's also caught the scent of nearly three thousand additional objects, of which probably 80 percent or more will turn out to be other-worldly orbs.

~ Seth Shostak

As an astronaut, especially during launch, half of the risk of a six-month flight is in the first nine minutes.

~ Chris Hadfield

These subsidies from four European governments, which include aircraft launch assistance, capital injections, debt forgiveness, have enabled Airbus to develop and range market airliners well below cost.

~ Norm Dicks

It would be sad if the expertise built up during the 40 years of the U.S. and Russian manned programmes were allowed to dissipate. But abandoning the shuttle, and committing to new launch vehicles and propulsion systems, is actually a prerequisite for a vibrant manned programme.

~ Martin Rees