Top 100 Start Small Sayings
#1. 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
#2. Think big, start small, and keep going.
Fia Essen
#3. Dream big. Start small and then connect the dots
Dan Millman
#4. Don't be afraid to start out small. You see tech companies selling for millions, but you shouldn't be afraid to start small and grow it. I work closely with my employees. I don't believe in things working if you're not passionate about things.
Shawne Merriman
#5. 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
#6. Start small; Think possibilities; Reach beyond your known abilities; Invest all you have in your dream; Visualize miracles; Expect to experience success.
Robert H. Schuller
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.
Xavier Niel
#10. Effective innovations start small. They are not grandiose. They try to do one specific thing.
Peter Drucker
#11. 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
#12. Learn to think BIG but start small. All the big projects eventually started with a single step.
Petronela Zainuddin
#13. If you're dreaming big, #GIRLBOSS, don't be discouraged if you have to start small. It worked for me.
Sophia Amoruso
#14. 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
#16. 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
#18. Langdon held her tighter. You start small. You take that first tiny step. you trust me.
Dan Brown
#19. It's a really paradoxical thing. We want to think big, but start small. And then scale fast. People think about trying to build the next Facebook as trying to start where Facebook is today, as a major global presence.
Eric Ries
#20. Start locally and build. Start small and grow. Start in your house, then move to your school, your book club, your gym, your church, your temple, your city.
Laurie David
#21. You are likely to vomit your dreams if you take too much at a time. Take it one after the other and don't over-eat the dreams you have! Dream big, but start small!
Israelmore Ayivor
#22. Big things start small ... Never look down on that thing you think is nothing ... always remember that ... !
Akinwumi Jarule
#25. 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
#26. Start small and with your own money.
Alan Sugar
#27. Start small.
Start now.
Start everything.
And don't bother to finish any of it.
Barbara Sher
#28. Make a start on something, start small and don't dispise the small beginnings.
Euginia Herlihy
#29. 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
#30. 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
#33. 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
#34. Dream big. Start small. But most of all, start.
Simon Sinek
#35. 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
#36. The greatest lesson that I learned in all of this is that you have to start. Start now, start here, and start small. Keep it Simple.
Jack Dorsey
#37. To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big.
Aliko Dangote
#38. For me, the winning strategy in any start-up business is, 'Think big but start small.'
Carmen Busquets
#39. I choose depending on the way I feel; randomly, in other words. When I haven't done anything for a long time, I always start small, on paper.
Gerhard Richter
#40. 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
#43. You intentionally start small, because you will not be able to compete with an incumbent ... because the incumbent is always going to go for the full solution.
Aaron Levie
#44. How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to change the world! How wonderful it is that everyone, great and small, can immediately help bring about justice by giving of themselves!
Anne Frank
#45. Writing a story I am just trying to find some little interesting thing to start out with: something small, even trivial. Preferably something that doesn't have a lot of thematic or political baggage - a little crumb that is interesting.
George Saunders
#46. are meant to shine. Look at small children. They're all so unique before they start trying to be,
Marianne Williamson
#47. Look at identical twins. When you get closer, you start to see the small differences. It all depends on how much you magnify it.
Bryan Swanson
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. Nor do I try to keep a garden, only
An avocado in a glass of water --
Roots pallid, gemmed with air. And later,
When the small gilt leaves have grown
Fleshy and green, I let them die, yes, yes,
And start another. I am earth's no less.
James Merrill
#51. If people start looking from the small stuff up to the bigger once, they will find stuff which they haven't know that they have been there or never imagined that they had them!
Deyth Banger
#52. 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
#53. Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.
Emma Thompson
#54. Everything in the world starts small and then becomes bigger - except bad things. They start big, and then get smaller.
Warren St. John
#55. Pushing your limits is what allows you to grow stronger, so if you find yourself feeling passive, it can make sense to dial it up a little. Get moving. Accomplish something small. Do something you enjoy. Embrace what moves you. And start again.
Max McKeown
#56. Long, long ago, my great mentor in graduate school, the late Darb, he said if you're writing for a popular audience, you do not start by saying, 'Consider a small, open economy..' You say, 'In Belgium.
Paul Krugman
#57. My dad hasn't said much about his college days. Oh, a few times, he might start telling stories. And I've seen some highlight film of him from college. I remember thinking he looked really small. Which is funny, because growing up, I thought he was a pretty big guy.
Andrew Luck
#58. Feeling lost? Take a dream and convert it into small goals, then start taking the steps to hit those goals.
Dave Ramsey
#59. I believe that scientific knowledge has fractal properties, that no matter how much we learn, whatever is left, however small it may seem, is just as infinitely complex as the whole was to start with. That, I think, is the secret of the Universe.
Isaac Asimov
#60. 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
#61. Small daily happenings make life spectacular ... start enjoying the small things in life!
Andy Rooney
#62. I like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start.
John Lee Hooker
#63. He didn't like having to start the fire again, that was the source of this small sadness. You get tired of these endless beginnings.
Denis Johnson
#64. If I am feeling stupid, angry, jealous, or humiliated, I bring total awareness and acknowledgment to those feelings. I admit my failures and own them. Then I usually start laughing as I realize how small and inconsequential I really am and also how ridiculous my problems are!
Sharon Salzberg
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. When small people start casting big shadows it is time for sunset.
Mayank Chhaya
#68. It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#69. 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
#70. If you want to be useful, you can always start now. It will be a humble prototype of your grand vision, but you'll be in the game. Start by teaching someone this week. Starting small puts 100% of your energy into solving real problems for real people.
Derek Sivers
#71. To change the world, Start with one step. However small, the first step is hardest of all.
Dave Matthews
#72. who achieve great things that the world will never forget, start out by accomplishing small things that the world will never see.
Bob Burg
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.
Bernie Mac
#76. Greatest discoveries start with one small step
Mayur Ramgir
#77. I find the best things are done for yourself or start as a small project and become a big thing.
Tom Lenk
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. Small things start us in new ways of thinking
V.S. Naipaul
#81. We're human beings trying to understand and cultivate what it means to feel divine love. We have to start with small, realistic goals.
Surya Das
#82. I'm fascinated by management and organizations: how organizations get things done and how successful organizations are built and maintained, how they evolve as they grow from start-ups to small companies to medium companies to big companies.
Mitch Kapor
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. I will definitely start in small venues, as I want to find my feet as a performer; the first shows that Westlife did was ten dates at Wembley, which was just crazy. We didn't have a clue what we were doing because it was so big.
Shane Filan
#86. Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start.
Shana Alexander
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. Many fungal diseases, like aspergillosis or coccidioidomycosis, start when you inhale a small fungal particle called a spore. The spore settles in the lung, where it begins to grow and divide. The ball of fungus grows larger and larger and can eventually make it difficult to breathe.
Jennifer Gardy
#90. 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
#91. Darling, don't be silly, your whole future is ahead of you. All you have to do is go out there and ask for a part- something small and reasonable just to start with. From there, no one can stop you. Don't feel bad about anything you've done, and for God's sake, have fun.
Anna Godbersen
#92. network effects businesses must start with especially small markets.
Peter Thiel
#93. Lost motivation means that you broke promises to yourself and haven't corrected them yet. You need to believe in yourself again. This can only happen when you start fulfilling the small promises you make to yourself.
Chris Powell
#94. How do you make a small fortune in the wine business? Start with a large fortune and buy a winery.
Kevin Zraly
#95. Having children obviously changes your priorities, but when you start to see life through these innocent eyes and seeing everything for the first time, you appreciate the small things.
Nick Cannon
#96. 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
#97. Start with a small product in lab environment and grow it!
Colin Humphreys
#98. The first step is to find out what you love - and don't be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible.
Barbara Sher
#99. 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
#100. 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
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