All Time Famous Startup Quotes

A startup typically refers to a newly established company, often in its early stages of development. Startups are characterized by their innovative ideas, rapid growth potential, and often their pursuit of disruptive solutions to existing problems or industries. These companies are usually founded by entrepreneurs who seek to bring a new product, service, or technology to market. Startups often operate in dynamic and competitive environments, facing challenges such as securing funding, building a customer base, and scaling their operations. Success in the startup world often involves a combination of vision, execution, adaptability, and resilience.

Startup Quotes

1. “Whatever you’re thinking, think bigger.”
— Tony Hsieh

2. “The way to get started is to quit talking and start doing.”
— Walt Disney

3. “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”
— Guy Kawasaki

4. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”
— Babe Ruth

5. “If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.”
— Mario Andretti

6. “Done is better than perfect.”
— Sheryl Sandberg

7. “Always deliver more than expected.”
— Larry Page

8. “Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
— Henry Ford

9. “Always wake up with a smile knowing that today you are going to have fun accomplishing what others are too afraid to do.”
— Mark Cuban

10. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
— Jim Rohn

11. “Forget about your competitors, just focus on your customers.”
— Jack Ma

12. “When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.”
— Josh James

13. “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
— Steve Jobs

14. “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?”
— Sheryl Sandberg

15. “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.”
— Eric Thomas

16. “Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.”
— Thomas A. Edison

17. “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”
— Drew Houston

18. “High expectations are the key to everything.”
— Sam Walton

19. “A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.”
— Steve Jobs

20. “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
— Winston Churchill

21. “I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.”
— Elon Musk

22. “You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.”
— Ted Turner

23. “Customers don’t care about your solution. They care about their problems.”
— Dave McClure

24. “Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.”
— Ted Turner

25. “The only thing worse than starting something and failing is not starting something.”
— Seth Godin

26. “Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.”
— Seth Godin

27. “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.”
— Dave Thomas

28. “Any time is a good time to start a company.”
— Ron Conway

29. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
— Thomas A. Edison

30. “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.”
— Richard Branson

31. “Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”
— Henry Ford

32. “When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say, ‘Wow, that was an adventure,’ not, ‘Wow, I sure felt safe.’”
— Tom Preston-Werner

33. “When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for people telling you that you are nuts.”
— Larry Ellison

34. “I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”
— Jeff Bezos

35. “Chase the vision, not the money. The money will end up following you.”
— Tony Hsieh

36. “Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.”
— Paul Rand

37. “I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.”
— Bill Gates

38. “Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right.”
— Henry Ford

39. “Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.”
— Biz Stone

40. “Don’t be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don’t let the bastards get you down.”
— Michael Bloomberg

41. “Not having a clear goal leads to death by a thousand compromises.”
— Mark Pincus

42. “If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.”
— John D. Rockefeller

43. “80% of your sales come from 20% of your clients.”
— Pareto principle

44. “If you are going through hell, keep going.”
— Winston Churchill

45. “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.”
— Henry Ford

46. “You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done.”
— Russell Simmons

47. “So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.”
— Caterina Fake

48. “Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”
— Elon Musk

49. “Diligence is the mother of good luck.”
— Benjamin Franklin

50. “Nothing works better than just improving your product.”
— Joel Spolsky

51. “Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.”
— Nelson Mandela

52. “I don’t focus on what I’m up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.”
— Venus Williams

53. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
— Mark Twain

54. “You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.”
— Reid Hoffman

55. “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.”
— Steve Jobs

56. “You can be comfortable in your career or extraordinary. Which one are you going to be?”
— Sally Hogshead

57. “Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.”
— Mark Zuckerberg

58. “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

59. “Our industry does not respect tradition. It only respects innovation.”
— Satya Nadella

60. “If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.”
— Reid Hoffman

61. “Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”
— Jack London

62. “Micromanage the process, not the people.”
— Joe Apfelbaum

63. “The world is not changed by people who sort of care.”
— Sally Hogshead

64. ““Make something people want” includes making a company that people want to work for.”
— Sahil Lavingia

65. “Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.”
— Jack Dorsey

66. “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

67. “It’s not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.”
— Edwin H. Land

68. “The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.”
— Rob Kalin

69. “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

70. “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”
— Steve Jobs

71. “Running a startup is like being punched in the face repeatedly, but working for a large company is like being waterboarded.”
— Paul Graham

72. “We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.”
— Pete Cashmore

73. “Eliminate all the unimportant opportunities.”
— Mike Markkula

74. “No business plan survives first contact with customers.”
— Steve Blank

75. “Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle and a victory.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

76. “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

77. “We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
— Thomas A. Edison

78. “Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.”
— Michael Dell

79. “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

80. “Real artists ship.”
— Steve Jobs

81. “80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.”
— Pareto principle

82. “Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is.”
— Mark Cuban

83. “Starting your own business is like riding a roller coaster. There are highs and lows and every turn you take is another twist. The lows are really low, but the highs can be really high. You have to be strong, keep your stomach tight, and ride along with the roller coaster that you started.”
— Lindsay Manseau

84. “Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy.”
— Jason Fried

85. “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
— Parkinson’s law

86. “The cost of hiring someone bad is so much greater than missing out on someone good.”
— Joe Kraus

87. “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.”
— Wayne Gretzy

88. “I think the single most reassuring thing about doing a startup is knowing in advance how difficult it is going to be.”
— Jared Tame

89. “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

90. “Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week, to avoid working 40 hours a week.”
— Lori Greiner

91. “Having a great startup pitch has more to do with setting up and running a great company than optimizing some type of sales process to investors. Great investors can see through most tactics that you will use in the pitch process, so the best fundraising strategy is to build a great company.”
— Ken Howery

92. “If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.”
— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

93. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
— Karen Lamb

94. “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.”
— Michael Jordan

95. “Believe in your dreams and dream big. And then after you’ve done that, dream bigger.”
— Howard Schultz

96. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
— Henry David Thoreau

97. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
— Bill Gates

98. “Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.”
— Ann Landers

99. “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
— Will Rogers

100. “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

101. “It’s not the big that eat the small – it’s the fast that eat the slow.”
— Jason Jennings

102. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
— Zig Ziglar

103. “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
— Confucius