62 Start-Up Quotes for You to Enjoy

In Chicago, actors start up companies and get together and produce things, and there's a really rich, vibrant non-Equity theater scene out there. Jane Lynch

Together Rich Out Scene Chicago Up Get Get Together Vibrant Theater Produce Really Companies Actor Things Start Start-Up

It's much easier for a middle class Indian entrepreneur to start up a computer company than it is for an Indian company to build roads and transportation systems suitable for a population that is getting wealthier and demanding more basic services. Jerry A. Webman

Class Entrepreneur Demanding Build Suitable Easier Systems Indian More Computer Roads Up Than Getting Middle Middle Class Much Transportation Company Population Basic Services Start Start-Up

The ventures that keep things light and fun, easy to understand, that have a compelling story, a sexy retail product, will have an easier time getting people to rally around them and contribute. A start-up doing something that's difficult to communicate or doesn't offer any kind of retail product will have a tougher go at it. Jessica Jackley

Time People Communicate Light Will Difficult Rally Easier Kind Easy Sexy Something Retail Tougher Ventures Around Understand Doing Go Offer Contribute Any Getting Story Them Product Fun Keep Compelling Things Start-Up

Auctomatic was a compressed start-up experience, going from start to launch to acquisition in under a year. We spent a long time building the product before getting our first customer, whereas with Stripe we made sure we had paying customers from the very start. John Collison

Time Experience Made Long Long Time First Building Year Before Our Spent Stripe Launch Had Sure Very Getting Going Whereas Customer Customers Acquisition Product Paying Start Start-Up

There's nothing like sitting in a completely quiet room, and then the strings start up. It's like when you go to the cinema - the first two or three minutes of any film are amazing. Because the screen is so big. The scale. Directors can pretty much do anything for those first few minutes. Jonny Greenwood

You Cinema Amazing Three First Big Few Nothing Strings Those Scale Minutes Pretty Directors Like Because Go Up Quiet Sitting Any Screen Anything Room Then Much Film Start Start-Up Two

It's almost impossible for a start-up to compete on cash compensation, and it doesn't make much sense to try. A seasoned executive at a big company is going to join a start-up because he or she craves the opportunity to build something from the ground up. Justin Caldbeck

Opportunity Impossible Try Big Build Sense Cash Something Join He He Or She Almost Executive She Make Because Big Company Up Going Craves Much Ground Company Seasoned Compensation Compete Start-Up

Launching a start-up, you need to get a lot done quickly. Every day is different. Everyone pitches in with everything. It's easy for the founding team to say, 'We're flexible. We all help out with everything!' But when it comes to making decisions - that flexibility can spell inefficiency and disaster. Kathryn Minshew

Day You Every Day Every Spell Everyone Everything Say Out Launching Easy Disaster Inefficiency Making Making Decisions Lot Quickly Get Done Pitches Different Decisions Flexibility Flexible Team Help Founding Start-Up Need

I try to drive my office more as a start-up of ideas. Kevin McCarthy

Try Drive More Ideas Office Start-Up

To be successful, you don't have to have all this crazy start-up capital or a ton of knowledge. I think it's actually helpful sometimes to not know all the rules because that way it's easier to break them. Lauren Bush

Crazy Knowledge You Sometimes Think Way Rules Easier Know Because Break Them Capital Successful Helpful Actually Ton Start-Up

It's much harder these days as a start-up to do physical devices. Marc Andreessen

Physical Days Devices Much Harder Start-Up

Amsterdam lives and breathes creativity. One moment you walk into a building from the 17th century, and the next you find yourself in a hub of creative start-up companies. Marcel Wanders

You Creative Yourself Creativity Walk Building Find Hub Century Breathes Next Moment Companies Lives Start-Up Amsterdam

It's a special person - and personality - who can lead a start-up to soaring success and sustain that success for the long term. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg are star examples. Marcus Buckingham

I think Amazon is the greatest start-up and the greatest company in the world. The way they are using new technologies is not just disrupting retail, it's getting ready to disrupt everything. Mark Cuban

World Think Everything Way Retail New Greatest Ready Amazon New Technologies Getting Just Using Company Technologies Start-Up Disrupt

I would say if you have a dream - and whether that is you want to be some sort of artist, or you want to start a start-up or a business, anything that very much feels like it's uniquely yours and you may not be able to get traction going through traditional channels - the way to do it is to build it brick by brick on your own in microsteps. Mark Duplass

You Business Build Own Channels Way Say Dream Would Able Some Through Feels Like Sort Traditional Very Get Artist Going May Want Anything Whether Much Your Yours Brick Uniquely Start Start-Up

Successful entrepreneurs develop products that inspire their passion. They have to. It's that passion that gets them through the long, arduous, uncertain and frightening early days of a start-up. Mitch Kapor

Inspire Passion Long Uncertain Arduous Through Entrepreneurs Develop Days Frightening Gets Them Successful Products Start-Up Early Early Days

To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public. Natalie Massenet

Today You Business Entrepreneur Everything Considering Run Through Investment Takes Operation Go Integrated Exit Vertically Brand Wherewithal Whether Public Plan Your Designer Start-Up Funds Need

For a start-up company, it is all about the religion of the product's excellence - the success of the product - while for a large corporation, it is the brand. We chose to maintain our start-up image. Noam Bardin

Success Religion Our Corporation About Excellence Maintain Brand While Product Large Company Chose Image Start-Up

So, Israel, for all its glory, has failed as a social country because it has not built a strong society, but a very weak one. We succeeded militarily and financially, and we are the 'Start-Up Nation' - but when it comes to social issues, Israel has failed. It is very sad. Nuseir Yassin

Sad Strong Country Nation Society Weak Financially Failed Because Glory Built Israel Issues Very Social Succeeded Social Issues Start-Up

With scale, there always becomes this tension of, how do you keep the start-up philosophy? Patrick Pichette

You Philosophy Scale Tension Becomes Always How Keep Start-Up

The best start-ups might be considered slightly less extreme kinds of cults. The biggest difference is that cults tend to be fanatically wrong about something important. People at a successful start-up are fanatically right about something those outside it have missed. Peter Thiel

Best People Important Extreme Considered Slightly Those Kinds About Something Tend Outside Wrong Missed Important People Cults Difference Biggest Biggest Difference Might Successful Less Right Start-Up

In 1991, I co-founded my first start-up, Ink Development, which made software for an early tablet computer. Pierre Omidyar

Made First Software Tablet Computer Development Which Ink Start-Up Early

Start-Up Quotes

No more start-up quotes