Top 38 Business Startup Quotes
#1. Thou shalt not invest in a needless business. Thou shalt not trade time for money. Thou shalt not operate on a limited scale. Thou shalt not relinquish control. Thou shalt not let a business startup be an event over process.
M.J. DeMarco
#2. Most startups actually start down and only go up if they catch the winds of market demand.
Ryan Lilly
#3. It was actually very difficult., especially during the first five years of the start-up stage, when all the odds seemed to be against us - this is probably true for most entrepreneurs. To succeed, you really have to put your heart and soul into it. (p. 71)
Injap Sia
#4. From the CEO to the receptionist to the office manager, everybody at your startup business should know that one-minute elevator pitch.
Timi Nadela
#5. Creating the right advisory board for your startup can be the single most important step you take in building a new business.
Jay Samit
#6. About 10 million people start a business each year, and about one out of two will make it. The average entrepreneur is often on his or her third startup.
Brad D. Smith
#7. You NEED to learn how to fly before you learn how to land and you MUST learn how to land before you start flying.
Samer Chidiac
#8. The median startup is a business that's capitalized with about $25,000. The financing of that business comes from the entrepreneur's savings. The business is a retail or personal service business, a hair salon or a clothing store, that kind of thing.
Scott Shane
#9. Fear in the absence of knowledge breeds irrationality.
We should always seek knowledge, even in the face of fear.
Biz Stone
#10. If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail. Once you get beyond startup, if you have managers reporting to managers, you will create politics.
Mark Cuban
#11. It's not about the content we are creating but how much content our customers are creating for us.
Roger Hamilton
#12. Essentials of how to do a startup do not include writing a business plan
Steve Blank
#13. only one out of every ten aspirants actually gets around to establishing a startup business. Basically, it means that there is a huge gap between the dreamers from the doers.
Bill Robb
#14. Startups and small businesses that do not invest at least 10% of their profits into R&D will have the privilege of remaining a startup and/or a small business.
Mark Anthony Peterson
#15. Most people, including me, don't like tracking their time. However, few things will give you better insight into what is going on with your startup company than a time report. If you don't know what people are spending time on, then you probably don't have a good handle on your business.
Mike Moyer
#16. Entrepreneurs don't ask for permission. They act per a mission.
Ryan Lilly
#17. If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.
David Belasco
#18. Business ideas are like those flying dragons in Avatar. First you have to find one, let it choose you, then be brave enough to ride it.
Ryan Lilly
#19. I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business.
Walter Isaacson
#20. We've all seen it. A #startup begins with a #dream, a #passion to do something others have missed or overlooked.
David Brier
#21. An entrepreneur without funding is a musician without an instrument.
Robert A. Rice Jr.
#22. 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
#23. 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
#25. If you can't develop a lot of paying customers for your product, you don't really have a business to build.
Timothy Freriks
#26. I hate it when people call themselves 'entrepreneurs' when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell of go public, so they can cash in and move on. They're unwilling to do the work it takes to build a real company, which is the hardest work in business.
Steve Jobs
#27. I want the definition of startup back. To be used by anybody who is willing to take the risk to quit their corporate job and go out and try and build an innovative, disruptive, tech-enabled business that tries to change the way things work in the world.
Mark Suster
#28. Most startups eventually pivot to adjust to what the market is telling them.
Alejandro Cremades
#29. The goal of every startup experiment is to discover how to build a sustainable business around that vision.
Eric Ries
#30. From the CEO, receptionist to the office manager, everybody at your startup should know the one-minute pitch of your business
Timi Nadela
#31. Listen to your customers, not your competitors.
Joel Spolsky
#32. A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.
Steve Blank
#33. There's no such thing as "Perfect' time to start your own startup business. You will be waiting for the rest of your life.
Timi Nadela
#34. A startup's job is to (1) rigorously measure where it is right now, confronting the hard truths that assessment reveals, and then (2) devise experiments to learn how to move the real numbers closer to the ideal reflected in the business plan.
Eric Ries
#35. It doesn't matter if you call it a boom or a bubble. The startup business moves in cycles, and what goes up will eventually come down.
Eric Ries
#36. This book is about the questions you must ask and answer to succeed in the business of doing new things: what follows is not a manual or a record of knowledge but an exercise in thinking. Because that is what a startup has to do: question received ideas and rethink business from scratch.
Peter Thiel
#37. Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business.
Peter Diamandis
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