Startup Quotes

It’s not about the content we are creating but how much content our customers are creating for us.

~ Roger James Hamilton

If you can’t write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don’t have a clear idea.

~ David Belasco

No matter what your reason for wanting to start your own business, developing the foundation is the same. Laying a solid foundation for you business will provide you with a road map to follow as you build your business. As you work through the Start a Business Step-by-Step Workbook you will define the company’s mission, decide what business entity is right for your business, name your business, determine the pricing for your products or services, formulate your financial projections, define your competitors, survey consumers regarding your products or services, determine the marketing methods right for your business and more.

~ Jeanne A. Estes

Entrepreneurs see what others can't, do what others won't, and accomplish what others dream.

~ Ryan Lilly

One of the things I’ve learnt about goals is people will write them or wrong them.

~ Onyi Anyado

Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones?

~ Onyi Anyado

When strategy, culture, and brand harmonize, they amplify one another and resonate loud and clear.

~ Kate O'neill

We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn't about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best.

~ Ryan Lilly

If your sole focus is money, you may create a successful startup. But if it's impact, you can probably create history.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry.

~ Ryan Lilly

Jean-Baptiste Say may have coined the term 'entrepreneur' but he totally missed the opportunity to put it on a t-shirt and sell it.

~ Ryan Lilly

Act NOW on those ideas! As they say, you snooze you lose. Or as I say, if you BEGIN you WIN.

~ Richie Norton

The moment you think you know something inside out, is the moment you stop listening. That's when you go backwards faster than you progressed

~ Hadi Farnoud

For a long time, it was one of these things where—I was really much younger than now—my whole brand both to the investors and to our board members was this crazy Russian boy-genius who comes out and sprinkles magic dust on technology and things just work.

~ Max Levchin

Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

~ Jay Samit

A lot of the machines that Google is built on—commodity is the polite word for them—they're regular PCs and so they're not always the most reliable.

~ Jessica Livingston

Paul Buchheit: Then you have what we do with PCs, and that's technically pretty challenging—to take this big network of machines that are unreliable and build a big, reliable storage system out of it.

~ Jessica Livingston

Writing and achieving your goals is not failure, not having a goal to write in the first place is the start of failure.

~ Onyi Anyado

For any creative thought to be contagious, it must first be worthy of a sneeze.

~ Ryan Lilly

Entrepreneur, if you're going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind”.

~ Onyi Anyado

Regret nothing. Everything broken can be remade. And everything remade can once again be broken

~ Kulpreet Yadav

Entrepreneurship is a scary city! NO water- dig wells, NO food- plant trees, NO family- build one, NO identity- prove yourself.

~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber

One of the best ways to attract capital is to outperform the competition.

~ Alejandro Cremades

The best entrepreneurs are not the best visionaries. The greatest entrepreneurs are incredible salespeople. They know how to tell an amazing story that will convince talent and investors to join in on the journey.

~ Alejandro Cremades

Learning to embrace and savor rejection is one of the best things that entrepreneurs can do. Launching a startup is the time to find your ever-optimistic inner child again.

~ Alejandro Cremades

Business is still more often about whom you know, not what you know.

~ Alejandro Cremades

Ideas are meaningless without a masterful execution.

~ Alejandro Cremades

Don’t expect investors to be throwing millions on the table for you to go off and buy a bigger house, get a new car, party half the week away, and generally upgrade your lifestyle.

~ Alejandro Cremades

If you want to glide toward money, you have to make sure your message is clear as a bell, and you need to ensure that you have a unified team capable of communicating it.

~ Alejandro Cremades

Business success requires business preparation. You don't have to be a master tactician, but you do need to have a plan in place. This plan will act as a foundation for everything you want to achieve.

~ Alejandro Cremades

Entrepreneur, if your're going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind.

~ Onyi Anyado

Entrepreneur, if you're going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind.

~ Onyi Anyado

It's called entrepreneurSHIP, not entrepreneurSTAY. Don't wait. Just ship.

~ Richie Norton

Gamblers take blind risks. Entrepreneurs take risks while visually impaired and feel their way up and out.

~ Ryan Lilly

Proformas rarely perform; missed projections are more often the norm. Still, we skew them up high, we miss but we try, for proformas which rarely perform.

~ Ryan Lilly

Everyone has an idea. But it’s really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you work on the idea.

~ Jack Dorsey

Embrace iteration as the road to improvement, but don't let that lull you into rolling out poorly-thought-out crap.

~ Kate O'neill

Investing in a startup does not make you an entrepreneur any more than buying a grand piano makes you a concert pianist.

~ Jeffrey Fry

Make a start, even if you have a controversial idea!

~ Abhishek Ratna