Good Startup Quotes

#1. I don't believe ever in shared office spaces. Peter talks a little bit about this, every good startup is a cult. It's very hard to create a cult if you're sharing space with people.

Keith Rabois

#2. 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

#3. You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible.

Paul Graham

#4. Developing a good, healthy culture is extremely important at a startup. Culture reflects the essence of a startup's operation because it directly affects the success of a company's hiring practices and overall strategy.

Scott Weiss

#5. A startup is a team of people on a mission, and a good culture is just what that looks like on the inside.

Peter Thiel

#6. The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

Mortimer Adler

#7. I'm a lover of lists and five-year plans and Excel spreadsheets. Any way that I can have any control over the direction my life is going, I gravitate towards that.

Jenna Fischer

#8. Are we really going to spend our whole lives like this, feeling the wrong shape and the wrong weight in the wrong skin?

Emma Woolf

#9. I won't be mad at you because you gave me something no one else has: the ability to live even when I thought I was dead.

Alexandria Hampton

#10. I spent a good portion of my life being unable to honor my feelings. When I started the process of having real friendships it was a huge change. I still struggle with it because it is not familiar ground.

Bonnie St. John

#11. 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

#12. If you want to build a startup that has a good chance of succeeding, don't listen to me. Listen to Paul Graham and others who are applying tons of data to the idea of startup success. That will maximize your chance of being successful.

Michael Arrington

#13. I wonder through the days like a whore in a world with no sidewalks.

Emil Cioran