Small Start Quotes

#1. Most Fortune 500 companies began as small start-ups whose entrepreneurial founders slowly developed the infrastructure, hired the staff, sourced manufacturers or built their own factory, and created distribution, sales, and marketing plans.

Lynda Resnick

#2. The two most important rules for any dream are: Start small. Start now. For Scanners, add two more: Start everything and Don't bother to finish any of it. (Just save it in your Daybook!)

Barbara Sher

#3. are meant to shine. Look at small children. They're all so unique before they start trying to be,

Marianne Williamson

#4. Death is never more than a breath away from the act of playing music. Each note on a guitar represents a small curve: birth, life, and death-and then you start over.

Andy Summers

#5. 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

#6. Start small; get to know the landscape. We take risks but not major risks. We always started with small capital - €4m in Holland, $10m in Russia - and as we get to know the landscape of a country, we think about other businesses.

Husnu Ozyegin

#7. In my case, if I start out by thinking about the plot, things don't go well. Small points, such as my impression of what is likely to occur, do come to mind, but I let the rest of the story take its own course. I don't want to spend as long as two years writing a story whose plot I already know.

Haruki Murakami

#8. Dream big. Start small and then connect the dots

Dan Millman

#9. We're going to start with small, easy things; then, little by little we shall try our hand at the big things. And after that, after we finish the big things, we shall undertake the impossible.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#10. Small daily happenings make life spectacular ... start enjoying the small things in life!

Andy Rooney

#11. If it doesn't do you any good, dump it. Take some action, push that lever, flush it away, and don't look back. Take small steps everyday of your life, and start taking control of what you say when you talk to yourself.

Dave Pelzer

#12. When small people start casting big shadows it is time for sunset.

Mayank Chhaya

#13. It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#14. Most troublesome is the legalization of 'crowd funding,' the ability of start-up companies to raise capital from small investors on the Internet.

Steven Rattner

#15. There is no reason to start small. If you want something, you go for it. You never know in this life when it will all be taken away.

Jennifer Ashley

#16. who achieve great things that the world will never forget, start out by accomplishing small things that the world will never see.

Bob Burg

#17. I have heard, 'Never go to bed angry,' and that makes sense. Unless you're always checking yourself, a grudge or something small can break apart a relationship, and you start to forget what is so amazing about your partner.

Diplo

#18. The fact that you have started a small business doesn't mean you should be thinking small. Think BIG! Start Small! Expand your territories!

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#19. Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.

Paul Ryan

#20. We all have to start somewhere, and doing something is better than nothing at all. Start small so you don't get discouraged and give up. Remember it is all about consistency.

Khloe Kardashian

#21. I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.

Xavier Niel

#22. Start from the body, and then go, slowly slowly, deeper. And don't start with anything else unless you have first solved the primary. If your body is tense, don't start with the mind. Wait. Work on the body. And just small things are of immense help.

Rajneesh

#23. There are a lot of studies about small businesses and how they make a difference in their community and create a lot of jobs and values. So we need to focus on small businesses or entrepreneurs who want to start manufacturing or making things.

Hamdi Ulukaya

#24. When they're small, they're part of you, on you in bed, showering with you, climbing onto your lap, holding on to your leg. Slowly, slowly, they start to move away, and if you love them, if you want them to feel safe and free to explore the world, you have to let them go. Mostly.

Lisa Unger

#25. But from the very start, there is that small streak of steel within each child. That thing that says "I am," and forms the core of personality.

Diana Gabaldon

#26. Growing up in a small Alaska town, domestic violence was that dirty little secret nobody talked about. We must start talking about it. For too long, we have been providing protection to the wrong people.

Lisa Murkowski

#27. The start date and the end date are always the important bits on the gravestones, written in big letters. The dash in between is always so small you can barely see it. Surely the dash should be big and bright and amazing, or not, depending on how you had lived.

Brooke Davis

#28. Progressives start small. They introduce 'commonsense' regulations and restrictions that will supposedly save lives. Then, each time the public's attention is captured, they push further.

Glenn Beck

#29. A series of small but real accomplishments gives people the energy and confidence to continue. For instance, a person who wants to write a novel might resolve to write one sentence each day. Or a person who wants to start running might resolve to run for one minute.

Gretchen Rubin

#30. network effects businesses must start with especially small markets.

Peter Thiel

#31. I wasn't eating the right kinds of calories. I didn't know about healthy carbs such as brown rice and lentils. Now I eat small meals throughout the day: oatmeal with cinnamon to start, fruit and yogurt as a snack, and vegetables or with chicken or tuna, and a healthy carb, like a yam, for lunch.

Alison Sweeney

#32. If you're dreaming big, #GIRLBOSS, don't be discouraged if you have to start small. It worked for me.

Sophia Amoruso

#33. I tell you what Hispanics in Virginia tell me they want. They want access to the American dream. That's why they come here to Virginia and to America, so they want more opportunities to start small business, better schools.

Bob McDonnell

#34. The idea is that if you practice the Naikan part of Constructive Living, life becomes a series of small miracles, and you may start to notice everything that goes right in a typical life and not the few things that go wrong.

Will Schwalbe

#35. You give thanks for small things. I gave thanks that I was wearing jeans, not a skirt. People start trying to kill you, you stop wearing skirts.

Glen Duncan

#36. Managing relationships (with start ups) is more like teaching.

Jeff Jarvis

#37. I'm a disgruntled ex-civil servant, and I'm armed. If you don't process my license right now I'm going to start making small, yet significant holes in people.

Howard Tayler

#38. Do be kind to yourself. Fill pages as quickly as possible; double space, or write on every second line. Regard every new page as a small triumph, until you get to page 50. Then calm down, and start worrying about the quality. Do feel anxiety - it's the job.

Roddy Doyle

#39. I do everything myself, from engine start to engine shutdown. In a war, I will face alone the missiles and the flak and the small-arms fire over the front lines. If I die, I will die alone.

Richard Bach

#40. Change the size of your dreams if that's what's keep you static. Go for bigger dreams, but start in a small way. See the bigger picture and live by the desire to become excellent!

Israelmore Ayivor

#41. I wondered if I should start a small fire in Percy Jackson's sink, perhaps burn some bandages in thanks, but I decided that might strain that Jackson's hospitality.

Rick Riordan

#42. Mr. Young hadn't had to quiet a screaming baby for years. H'ed never been much good at it to start with. He'd always respected Sir Winston Churchill, and patting small versions of him on the bottom had always seemed ungracious.

Terry Pratchett

#43. She knew he was angry, but she couldn't stop laughing. "Forgive me, Po. I was only trying to get your attention."
"And I suppose it never occurs to you to start small. If I told you my roof needed rebuilding, you'd start by knocking down the house.

Kristin Cashore

#44. To repeat, the way you get to the huge, impossible yes is, you start collecting a lot of easy, small yeses.

Chuck Palahniuk

#45. I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.

Jasper Fforde

#46. As one of the first employees at a small cellular phone start-up called Nextel, I gained firsthand experience in how a business grows from an idea to a company that, at its peak, employed many thousands.

Jack Markell

#47. If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going. That doesn't mean quit your job and jump into your idea 100% from day one, but there's always small progress that can be made to start the movement.

Kevin Systrom

#48. The best place to start doing life with God is in small moments.

John Ortberg

#49. The best way to make a small fortune in racing is to start with a big one.

Junior Johnson

#50. Is there anything more useless than a crouton? I sometimes wake up in the small hours with a start and realise that what's roused me is an overpowering urge to visit violence on its originator.

Will Self

#51. For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement's voice.

Adam Braun

#52. When you start noticing even a small portion of all there is to be grateful for, you'll find there is no room for lack, hurt, or want. The attitude of gratitude: the great, full feeling.

Peter McWilliams

#53. First the body has to become utterly relaxed, like a small child, then only start with the mind. Move scientifically: first the simplest, then the complex, then the more complex. And then only can you relax at the ultimate core.

Rajneesh

#54. These two girls start wanting the same thing because in this neighborhood, they know all the guys so well. It's a small town and all the guys are just really boring to them.

Caroline Dhavernas

#55. The day you decide to let God into your life, that day God will start pulling you into pieces and destroy who you think you are to reassemble you bit by bit piece by piece, with small blocks of pure love.
Untill you become that and nothing else.

Faruk H.T.

#56. I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem and then work around it. It's building brick by brick.

Muhammad Yunus

#57. Start small - if you drink soda, stop drinking soda. You don't have to make every single change at once or overnight, you can make them slowly to adjust to figure out what works for your body, there is no formula and there is also no right or wrong.

Shailene Woodley

#58. Leaders are not the ones with the right position or a proclaimed or given title, the actual leaders are the people who start acting, who step up, who do change, no matter in what way or how small!

Akilnathan Logeswaran

#59. Small dreams will not take you to the moon. So think big and start dreaming big soon.

Debasish Mridha

#60. Sometimes, you gotta start small to fix what's broke. Even if it's hard work, it's worth each little step if it's something you love.

Laura Ware

#61. Luckily, children's memories don't start much before four years of age, which is Mother Nature's way of forgiving parents during those really tough years of parenting small children.

Judy Arnall

#62. You must walk in the very spacious places under the infinite skies to realize how small you are! This is the first step to start being big!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#63. The little energy you obtained from your breakfast can ignite your willingness to kick start. Don't overlook the little energy you have now by fixing eyes on a supposed magical influence farther away!

Israelmore Ayivor

#64. No matter how small you start, start something that matters.

Brendon Burchard

#65. I think often people don't realize the great diversity of Southern writing because in their minds, if you're not from the South, it can seem regional and small, and of course that's not the case at all when you start to read the work.

Natasha Trethewey

#66. Start small, think big. Don't worry about too many things at once. Take a handful of simple things to begin with, and then progress to more complex ones. Think about not just tomorrow, but the future. Put a ding in the universe.

Steve Jobs

#67. She packed a small suitcase with a few clothes and toiletries, then wheeled it to Madoc's suite. She knocked on the door, he opened it part way. "I'm moving in. If you try to keep me out again, I'm going to grab hold of a body part you like and start twisting."

Shannon K. Butcher

#68. Step one in overcoming fears is to make a fear list. Make a list of all the things that you are afraid of. Start out with the small fears and conquer them.

Frederick Lenz

#69. Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#70. It's best to start the discipline of generosity when the amounts are small. It's easy to give ten cents out of a dollar; it's a little harder to give a hundred thousand out of a million.

Jim Rohn

#71. The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of making this thing whatever it be, but so often it eludes us and it collapses and we kind of regress into this mental suffering, we can't find what we're looking for.

Michael Leunig

#72. You just don't want to get pigeon-holed into one position. That's why even though I start out at center, I may play small forward, if I get a rebound and you're not there I can bring the ball up.

Lisa Leslie

#73. Don't wait another day to start the small disciplines that will lead you in the direction of your goals!

Darren Hardy

#74. Epic things start with small humble steps. Pay respect to your beginnings. And if you're just starting out, know that it's OK to be sucky. To be small. To be messy and chaotic. Just make sure to never ever stop dreaming.

Vishen Lakhiani

#75. Women are really demanding more flexibility in the workplace. Control is the new currency.. Forty-six percent of women want to start their own small businesses.

Celinda Lake

#76. Incredibly, oil and gas companies don't have to pay certain environmental costs that amount to small change to them, while an offshore wind project start-up is faced with fees that could mean the difference between building a wind farm and packing up and going home.

Chellie Pingree

#77. Never start with tomorrow to reach eternity. Eternity is not being reached by small steps.

John Donne

#78. Anyone can make a difference, so you don't have to have it be some huge, global campaign ... you can start small, and that's just as important.

Blake Mycoskie

#79. If therefore you shall be remembered for what you did with what you had more than what you had, use what you have to do something distinctive now and leave a notable footprint before you go

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#80. A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets.

Douglas Leone

#81. The trouble begins when we start to be so impressed by the strategies of our systematized thought that we forget that it does relate to an obverse, that it is hewn from negation, that it is but very small security against the void of negation which surrounds it.

Glenn Gould

#82. You don't have to justify your path to anyone. If people says to you "Why would you start this business?" Your response "because this is what I choose." No further explanation necessary.

Timi Nadela

#83. How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway ... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!

Anne Frank

#84. [L]ean start-ups are the small furry mammals competing with the large dinosaurs - meaning they're one asteroid strike away from world dominance. Exponential technology is that asteroid.

Peter H. Diamandis

#85. I like to swim, I like to play with my dogs and I love to eat - but I have to start watching that because my suits are getting too small.

Bobby Womack

#86. An individual can march for peace or vote for peace and can have, perhaps, some small influence on global concerns. But the same individual is a giant in the eyes of a child at home. If peace is to be built, it must start with the individual. It is built brick by brick.

Dorothy Day

#87. Every big castle was once started with a single block; despise no small beginnings. A little step taken every day builds up the hope of greater accomplishments. Do something every day!

Israelmore Ayivor

#88. Set a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it. Get support from your peers when you start flagging. Repeat. You will change.

Seth Godin

#89. In terms of intellectual property, so many of the job creators I know are start-ups. In the IP setting, we can meaningfully improve on the status quo, and in so doing, we can help small businesses, large businesses, and those in between.

Thomas Perez

#90. 90% of new business fail in the first three months of launching, due to lack of proper planning, wrong selection of niche/products and marketing platform.

K. Raveendran

#91. I'm the girl who's desperate to get out of her small town because if she doesn't she knows she'll die. She knows her soul will start to rot, like fruit gone bad.

Heather Demetrios

#92. The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that I was, when actually people start shooting, which happened to me a couple of times, everything goes on automatic and there's a feeling of tremendous elevation and even elation.

Mark Helprin

#93. Most revolutions start small and simmer under the surface gathering strength, adding to an ideology, gaining favourable opinion- first as a
credible alternative and then as the majority view

Gyan Nagpal

#94. Start small and start immediately.

Cal Newport

#95. Kids who want to become writers might want to start carrying a small notebook in their backpack. I encourage people to sit down in malls and listen, just listen, to how people talk.

Ann Turner

#96. Most reasons to delay are invalid if you get right to the core: no time, no money, no audience. These are all future concerns, which make it hard to start anything. Worry about those things later or not at all. Make small decisions at first, and start moving in a direction that feels right.

Paul Jarvis

#97. Drifting away from faith tends to start with the small things, the unintentional things, the seemingly insignificant moments of discontentment.

Kasey Van Norman

#98. The first trick to lying is to tell the truth as often as possible. If out start lying about everything, big and small, it becomes impossible to keep things straight and you'll get caught. Once suspicion is planted it becomes exponentially harder to sell the next lie.

Victoria Schwab

#99. In the enterprise you want to start intentionally small.

Aaron Levie

#100. The first thing I tell clients is get off the couch! Just start making some small lifestyle changes such as walking to work instead of driving or taking the stairs instead of the lift. The small things you can change all add up.

Jessie Pavelka