Successful Startup Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Founding a successful startup is no different than forming a rock band.

Jay Samit

#3. If your sole focus is money, you may create a successful startup. But if it's impact, you can probably create history.

Sharad Vivek Sagar

#4. We lacked something that is the key to a successful startup, and it was bigger than sound quality. It was emotional investment. If you don't love what you're building, if you're not an avid user yourself, then you will most likely fail even if you're doing everything else right.

Biz Stone

#5. HubSpot has used the lean startup method to build a spectacularly successful company. What I particularly love about HubSpot is that they are so geeked out on data analysis and making evidence-based decisions, which are at the heart of the Lean Startup process.

Eric Ries

#6. By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.

Albert Maltz

#7. You need this sort of a tailwind to make a startup successful.

Sam Altman

#8. Kant ... stated that he had "found it necessary to deny knowledge ... to make room for faith," but all he had "denied" was knowledge of things that are unknowable, and he had not made room for faith but for thought.

Hannah Arendt

#9. Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.

Hans Kung

#10. I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.

Juliet Marillier

#11. Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.

Randy Bachman

#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. It's difficult to get large groups of people, to the extreme levels of focus and productivity that you need, for a startup to be successful.

Sam Altman

#14. The Vengeance's sides and bow were covered in metal spikes, making it resemble a large floating cactus.

Chris Colfer