Dave Mcclure Quotes

#1. Customers don't care about your solution. They care about their problems. - Dave McClure, 500 Startups

Ash Maurya

#2. Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of that old-world god, Force.

Auberon Herbert

#3. For the most effective pitch, focus 80% on the problem, 20% on the solution.

Dave McClure

#4. Andre Breton once said that a portrait should not only be an image but an oracle one questions, and that the photographer's aim should be a profound likeness, which physically and morally predicts the subject's entire future.

Bill Brandt

#5. I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me."
His pupils contract to pinpoints, dialate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. "Always," he murmurs.

Suzanne Collins

#6. I think you want to show a level of transparency that breeds trust. You don't want to show a level of desperation that breeds concern.

Dave McClure

#7. Design is more important than technology in most consumer applications.

Dave McClure

#8. After you retire, there's only one big event left ... and I ain't ready for that.

Bobby Bowden

#9. I figured maybe I had some talent as an investor ... since it seemed like I was only a half-assed entrepreneur.

Dave McClure

#10. An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the past.

Jack Kornfield

#11. When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they do not see how they can get rid of it. Nevertheless, both arrive; and the gods have ordered it so, in the end men seek it from the gods

Epictetus

#12. Wait until companies have an initial prototype, have shown that they have the potential to be profitable and have the ability to scale. That's the best time to invest.

Dave McClure

#13. Out beyond
the ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase 'each other'
doesn't make any sense.

Rumi

#14. If I have to face the end of human existence, I want to look totally smoking when it happens. Now shut the hell up.

Angeline Trevena

#15. There is a growing recognition about China as a power in the ascent, and there is a question out there about what China will do with their new ascension.

Richard Armitage

#16. The path to the mountain ahead of you? is not the path you took to the mountain you stand on.

Dave McClure

#17. We're closer than friends. It's like we've got this invisible thread tying us together.

Denise Grover Swank

#18. Entrepreneurs usually don't listen to people. Trust them to do their job. Remember, you invested with the understanding the project was likely to fail.

Dave McClure

#19. The Internet is in cyberspace, but we" - he paused for effect - "are in meatspace, get it?" Opening

Matthew Mather

#20. My kids have become wonderful dancers themselves and enjoy teaching just as much as I do.

Bobby Burgess