Best Startup Quotes

#1. Rule #1: Sweat equity is the best startup capital

Mark Cuban

#2. Maybe some percentage that's substantially larger than 95 percent of VCs add zero value. I would bet that 70-80 percent add negative value to a startup in their advising.

Vinod Khosla

#3. HubSpot has used the lean startup method to build a spectacularly successful company. What I particularly love about HubSpot is that they are so geeked out on data analysis and making evidence-based decisions, which are at the heart of the Lean Startup process.

Eric Ries

#4. The really dramatic growth happens when a startup only has three of four people, so only three or four people see that, whereas tens of thousands see business as it's practiced by Boeing or Philip Morris.

Jessica Livingston

#5. When you are a startup you need to hire very fast, and sometimes you have to restructure very fast.

Maurice Levy

#6. Competing on price is what leaves most startup brands bankrupt

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#7. Everyone is on Facebook. It is very rare that I can't find a startup. Out of the 72 Y Combinator startups, almost all of them were on Facebook.

Robert Scoble

#8. In a big company, you can do what all the other big companies are doing. But a startup can't do what all the other startups do.

Paul Graham

#9. It's a very valuable skill to succeed in life whether you work for a startup or a Fortune 500 company.

Guy Kawasaki

#10. Thiel's law": a startup messed up at its foundation cannot be fixed.

Peter Thiel

#11. When Thomas and John Knoll launched Photoshop 1.0 in 1990, the software couldn't even handle color images. But their offerings got the startup noticed by Apple and Adobe, both of whom became key to the fledgling company's later success.

Jay Samit

#12. if you begin, you win.

Richie Norton

#13. A startup can focus on only one metric. So you have to decide what that is and ignore everything else.

Noah Kagan

#14. If a startup stays in Microsoft, it does not have a chance, because all it tries to do goes against what Microsoft is about.

Leroy Hood

#15. We have some good ideas here. But the only way to know if they're workable is to try to make them fail. If we fail to fail, then maybe we're on the right track.

Orson Scott Card

#16. If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup.

Fred Wilson

#17. The startup's goal is to find a profitable customer acquisition strategy by spending small amounts of money in a lot of them, measuring results, and then narrowing down the best channels, while performing PDCA for continuous improvement.

Francisco S. Homem De Mello

#18. 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

#19. The best founders are extremely thoughtful and have an eye for quality. I don't know if there's any generic advice here that would be helpful. Startup knowledge is a moving target.

Naval Ravikant

#20. I mean, look, the government is not a startup obviously. But projects to change government I think are best thought of as startups.

Todd Park

#21. Building a startup is an exercise in institution building; thus, it necessarily involves management. This

Eric Ries

#22. Every startup is small at the start. Every monopoly dominates a large share of its market. Therefore, every startup should start with a very small market. Always err on the side of starting too small.

Peter Thiel

#23. You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup ...

Ben Horowitz

#24. 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

#25. When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.

Paige Craig

#26. Like having a child, running a startup is the sort of experience that's hard to imagine unless you've done it yourself.

Paul Graham

#27. You have to be decisive. Indecisiveness is a startup killer.

Sam Altman

#28. If someone is choosing between joining McKinsey or your startup it's very unlikely they're going to work out at the startup.

Sam Altman

#29. I basically apply with my teams the lean startup principles I used in the private sector - go into Silicon Valley mode, work at startup speed, and attack, doing things in short amounts of time with extremely limited resources.

Todd Park

#30. We hear again and again from founders, that they wish they had waited to start a startup until they came up with an idea they really loved.

Sam Altman

#31. I operate my life like a startup. I learn a little bit and I test something else out and I keep iterating and iterating until it's perfect.

Rameet Chawla

#32. At least half the job of CEO is communication - because of human nature. People fear what they don't know. If the board wasn't hearing that things were going well, they assumed that things must be going badly.

Biz Stone

#33. You can have a startup and one other thing, you can have a family, but you probably can't have many other hobbies.

Sam Altman

#34. I could go and buy one of the islands in the
Bahamas and turn it into my personal fiefdom, but I am much more interested in trying to build and
create a new company.

Elon Musk

#35. It turns out that no undergrad class prepares you to start a startup - you learn most of it as you do it.

Kevin Systrom

#36. More important than starting any startup, is getting to know a lot of potential co-founders.

Sam Altman

#37. Volatility and length, that's the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that's a big valuable thing.

Ben Horowitz

#38. A startup will always prefer to work with an IP attorney, who believes in their idea, not one, who is only bothered about billing.

Kalyan C. Kankanala

#39. The lean startup method is not about cost, it is about speed.

Eric Ries

#40. Passion without knowledge and the desire to learn is foolishness

Abdulrahman Hariri