Top startup Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of startup quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Tony Hsieh
Chase the vision, not the money. The money will end up following you.
- Tony Hsieh
Collection: Startup
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What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: Know your product better than anyone. Know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.
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Collection: Startup
Image of Drew Houston
Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.
- Drew Houston
Collection: Startup
Image of Sam Walton
There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
- Sam Walton
Collection: Startup
Image of Paul Rand
Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.
- Paul Rand
Collection: Startup
Image of Seth Godin
The only thing worse than starting something and failing is not starting something.
- Seth Godin
Collection: Startup
Image of Steve Jobs
Real artists ship.
- Steve Jobs
Collection: Startup
Image of Steve Jobs
I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.
- Steve Jobs
Collection: Startup
Image of Venus Williams
I don’t focus on what I’m up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.
- Venus Williams
Collection: Startup
Image of Mahatma Gandhi
Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle and a victory.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Collection: Startup
Image of Mark Cuban
Don’t start a company unless it’s an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it’s not an obsession.
- Mark Cuban
Collection: Startup
Image of Zig Ziglar
You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
- Zig Ziglar
Collection: Startup
Image of Ann Landers
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.
- Ann Landers
Collection: Startup
Image of Thomas A. Edison
We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas A. Edison
Collection: Startup
Image of Robert Orben
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Startup
Image of Max Levchin
The very first company I started failed with a great bang. The second one failed a little bit less, but still failed. The third one, you know, proper failed, but it was kind of okay. I recovered quickly. Number four almost didn’t fail. It still didn’t really feel great, but it did okay. Number five was PayPal.
- Max Levchin
Collection: Startup
Image of Jason Jennings
It’s not the big that eat the small – it’s the fast that eat the slow.
- Jason Jennings
Collection: Startup
Image of Sara Blakely
Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning, because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else.
- Sara Blakely
Collection: Startup
Image of Steve Blank
No business plan survives first contact with customers.
- Steve Blank
Collection: Startup
Image of Sahil Lavingia
“Make something people want” includes making a company that people want to work for.
- Sahil Lavingia
Collection: Startup
Image of Sally Hogshead
You can be comfortable in your career or extraordinary. Which one are you going to be?
- Sally Hogshead
Collection: Startup
Image of Sally Hogshead
The world is not changed by people who sort of care.
- Sally Hogshead
Collection: Startup
Image of Reid Hoffman
If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.
- Reid Hoffman
Collection: Startup
Image of Howard Schultz
Believe in your dreams and dream big. And then after you’ve done that, dream bigger.
- Howard Schultz
Collection: Startup
Image of Mike Markkula
Eliminate all the unimportant opportunities.
- Mike Markkula
Collection: Startup
Image of Paul Graham
Running a startup is like being punched in the face repeatedly, but working for a large company is like being waterboarded.
- Paul Graham
Collection: Startup
Image of Paul Graham
The most important thing is not to let fundraising get you down. Startups live or die on morale. If you let the difficulty of raising money destroy your morale, it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
- Paul Graham
Collection: Startup
Image of Lori Greiner
Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week, to avoid working 40 hours a week.
- Lori Greiner
Collection: Startup
Image of Jack London
Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
- Jack London
Collection: Startup
Image of Pareto principle
80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.
- Pareto principle
Collection: Startup
Image of Satya Nadella
Our industry does not respect tradition. It only respects innovation.
- Satya Nadella
Collection: Startup