Inspirational Startup Quotes
Compilation of top Startup Quotes.
These underlisted startup quotes atre to guide and inspire our budding entrepreneurs. You will also know some bitter truth about running a startup. Running a startup is not a bed of roses.
No 1. “A ‘startup’ is a company that is confused about – 1. What its product is. 2. Who its customers are. 3. How to make money.” – Dave McClure.
No 2. “A successful product is never done or perfect.” – Geoff Teehan,
No 3. “Being realistic is the most common path to mediocrity.” – Will Smith
No 4. “Don’t limit yourself.” – Mary Kay Ash
No 5. “Don’t put it off. Do it now. You don’t know what will happen in three years.” – Robin Saitz
No 6. “Entrepreneur, if your’re going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind.” – Onyi Anyado
No 7. “Entrepreneurs pay the price of a road less traveled, while everyone else takes the freeway and perpetually misses their own exit.”-Ryan Lilly
No 8. “Entrepreneurs see what others can’t, do what others won’t, and accomplish what others dream.”- Ryan Lilly
No 9. “Focus on things that are the highest value and do them perfectly.” – Sean Parker
No 10. “For me, the winning strategy in any startup business is, ‘Think big but start small.”- Carmen Busquets
No 11. “Gamblers take blind risks. Entrepreneurs take risks while visually impaired and feel their way up and out.” – Ryan Lilly
No 12. “Ideas are cheap, execution is everything.” – Chris Sacca,
No 13. “If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.” – Mario Andretti
No 14. “If you’re prepared, and you know what it takes, it’s not a risk. You just have to figure out how to get there. There is always a way to get there.” – Mark Cuban
No 15. “In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a good director who can lead the ship. That’s how we look at business. Everybody has a great idea for a startup, and so do their relatives, and they tell me, ‘You gotta build it.’ I say, ‘I have to believe in it.” -Ashton Kutcher
No 16. “It’s a special person – and personality – who can lead a startup 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
No 17. “It’s really rare for people to have a successful startup in this industry without a breakthrough product. I’ll take it a step further. It has to be a radical product. It has to be something where, when people look at it, at first they say, ‘I don’t get it, I don’t understand it. I think it’s too weird, I think it’s too unusual” – Marc Andreessen
No 18. “It’s upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend’s startup.”- Fred Wilson
No 19. “Launching a startup, 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
No 20. “Make products that fit neatly into how humans actually think.” – Phil Libin
No 21. “Making mistakes is the privilege of the active. It is always the mediocre people who are negative, who spend their time proving that they were not wrong.” – Ingvar Kamprad
No 22. “Most startup companies fail and it is smart public policy to help entrepreneurs increase their odds of succeeding. But, the biggest loss to our economy is not all the startups that didn’t make it: It’s the ones that might have been created but weren’t”. -Eric Ries
No 23. “Part of the reward of entrepreneurship lies in having the courage to believe in yourself and take action.”-Timothy Freriks
No 24. “Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried”. – Tim O’Reilly
No 25. “Running a startup is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.”- Sean Parker
Other top startup quotes include the following:
- “Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.” – Chris Sacca
- “Start small, think big, and aim somewhere in between.” – Bill Rancic
- “Startup success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught”.- Eric Ries
- “Startup teams are always in flux, so, like all startups, we’re always talking to candidates for various key roles”.-Sean Parker
- “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “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 startup”.- Mitch Kapor
- “The best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.” – Michael Arrington
- “The best startups 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 startup are fanatically right about something those outside it have missed”. – Peter Thiel
- “The biggest barrier to starting a company isn’t ideas, funding or experiences. It’s excuses.” – Sarah Lacy
- “The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow”.- Ingvar Kamprad
- “The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.” – Casey Neistat
- “There are no hard times for good ideas.” – Harry Gordon Selfridge
- “When I joined Bill Clinton’s startup presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women would play an ever more important role, but I never gave a minute’s thought to what would happen if we won. When we did – and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary – it changed my life. But it didn’t change the world”.- Dee Dee Myers
- “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
- “Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career.” – Ryan Freitas
Though the startup quotes here are not exhaustive, I believe you must have gained one thing that can help you manager your startup better. If you nurture the startup well. It will grow. Every successful company started as a startup. This alone should motivate you that your startup will succeed too.
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