Bootstrapping Quotes

#1. Bootstrapping allows you total creative freedom. For example, if you decide to approach your business in a certain way that makes it a two- or three-year process to get to your first product, you can do that, versus being rushed into it by investors.

Nick Woodman

#2. As long as you can bootstrap, not at the sacrifice of competitive advantage, bootstrapping is a really powerful thing because it allows you to be totally devoted to your vision.

Nick Woodman

#3. Bootstrapping goes awry when entrepreneurs focus on saving pennies to the detriment of the Big Picture.

Guy Kawasaki

#4. Warping begets warping in a nonlinear, self-bootstrapping manner. This is a fundamental feature of Einstein's relativistic laws, and so different from everyday experience. It's somewhat like a hypothetical science-fiction character who goes backward in time and gives birth to herself.

Kip S. Thorne

#5. India's entrepreneurship pipeline will only scale with bootstrapping. There is no other way, given the hand of cards. - Sramana Mitra

Sramana Mitra

#6. Bootstrapping is a way to do something about the problems you have without letting someone else give you permission to do them.

Tom Preston-Werner

#7. I think that's the job of each of us - to show our best toys and our best tricks that lift us and our friends to higher and higher levels. There is no end to this bootstrapping process. The future of the human mind and body and the future of humans together is endlessly bright.

Terence McKenna

#8. He had a winged nature; she was rather of the vegetable kind, and could hardly be kept long alive, if drawn up by the roots. Thus it happened that the relation heretofore existing between her brother and herself was changed.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#9. Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

George Washington Carver

#10. There's magic all around us: Our smartphones are magical, 3-D printers are magical. So I feel that as a magician, if I can pull off something that seems real and convincing enough that I can explain why it's happening and have people believe it, it really is fascinating. And funny.

Michael Carbonaro

#11. How I feel about myself is more important than how I look. Feeling confident, being comfortable in your skin - that's what really makes you beautiful.

Bobbi Brown

#12. Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.

Socrates

#13. You create attention to attract attention.

Kurt Cobain

#14. When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

Tennessee Williams

#15. I consider myself just as normal as anybody else.

Brody Jenner

#16. If we will concentrate on the best, that element will grow until it sparkles.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#17. She's beginning to wonder if perhaps she's haunting herself.

Alice Hoffman

#18. You are a success when you are going for your goal with passion and conviction.

Debasish Mridha

#19. We see great growth in the United States. But also in China, Brazil, the U.K., and other markets around the world. So ecommerce is going to continue to be a great story for Walmart.

Mike Duke