Startup Quotes

An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

Every startup is a SME but every SME is not a startup.

It's called entrepreneurSHIP, not entrepreneurSTAY. Don't wait. Just ship.

Data has no ego and makes an excellent co-pilot.

Rebels revel in rewriting reality's restrictions.

Disruption isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you respond to what happens to you.

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.

Passion without knowledge and the desire to learn is foolishness

Perfection is born of imperfection.

Starting a business with brother either ends business or ends brotherhood.

I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry.

In the end it's all about the Zeroes you make

One who doesn't recognise an opportunity is bigger loser than one who tries his hand at an opportunity.

Stop doing what is easy. Start doing what is right.

S.T.O.P. = Start To Open Possibilities

Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

A lot of the machines that Google is built on—commodity is the polite word for them—they're regular PCs and so they're not always the most reliable.

You cannot go back to your past and erase or do alterations, but today you can have a new start

Embrace iteration as the road to improvement, but don't let that lull you into rolling out poorly-thought-out crap.

A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.

Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey.

One of the best ways to attract capital is to outperform the competition.

You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at.

The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.

It was actually very difficult., especially during the first five years of the start-up stage, when all the odds seemed to be against us—this is probably true for most entrepreneurs. To succeed, you really have to put your heart and soul into it. (p. 71)

Entrepreneur, if you're going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind.

The customer is always right...even when they're wrong.

At least half the job of CEO is communication - because of human nature. People fear what they don't know. If the board wasn't hearing that things were going well, they assumed that things must be going badly.

All Disruption starts with introspection.

Speed to fail should be every entrepreneur's motto. When you finally find the one idea that can't be killed, go with it.

For a long time, it was one of these things where—I was really much younger than now—my whole "brand" both to the investors and to our board members was this crazy Russian boy-genius who comes out and sprinkles magic dust on technology and things just work.

Entrepreneur, if your're going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind.

No one who ever led a nation got there by following the path of another.

You can truly have it all, just not all at the same time.

Perfectionism is a disease. Procrastination is a disease. ACTION is the cure.

Live the Life of Your DreamsWhen you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve.

Business is still more often about whom you know, not what you know.

Don't just create art to make money. Make money so you can create more art. (Exchange any words you want for 'create art' and see if it fits).

When strategy, culture, and brand harmonize, they amplify one another and resonate loud and clear.

Everyone has an idea. But it’s really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you work on the idea.

The business world is littered with the fossils of companies that failed to evolve. Disrupt or be disrupted. There is no middle ground.

Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones?

A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.

It used to be said "Build it and they will come," now it is "Build it and bribe them in".

Jean-Baptiste Say may have coined the term 'entrepreneur' but he totally missed the opportunity to put it on a t-shirt and sell it.

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic.

In the end, every startup is different. But in the beginning every startup is the same.

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.

Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.

Begin each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.

Just because you have baggage doesn't mean you have to lug it around.

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't.

Most startups actually start down and only go up if they catch the winds of market demand.

You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.

Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something and give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing.

Insight and drive are all the skills you need. Everything else can be hired.