Startup Quotes

Billions of dollars worth of research knowledge lie dormant at American universities waiting for the right disruptor to come along and create a business.

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

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

The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful ones know that the most unprofitable thing ever manufactured is an excuse.

If life, you get what you believe you deserve.

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

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

A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a negative state.

If you can imagine a solution, you can make it happen.

CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.

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

All businesses -- no matter if they make dog food or software -- don't sell products, they sell solutions.

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

There's so much to write. Where should I start?I texted my old Jiko this question, and she wrote me back this:'You should start where you are

Business ideas are like those flying dragons in Avatar. First you have to find one, let it choose you, then be brave enough to ride it.

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

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.

I will learn by screwing up.

we have some good ideas here. But the only way to know if they’re workable is to try to make them fail. If we fail to fail, then maybe we’re on the right track.

Do what you love and love what you do, with excellence.

An entrepreneur without funding is a musician without an instrument.

An entrepreneur is someone who will jump off a cliff and assemble an airplane on the way down.

Fear in the absence of knowledge breeds irrationality.We should always seek knowledge, even in the face of fear.

Most startups eventually pivot to adjust to what the market is telling them.

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

You NEED to learn how to fly before you learn how to land and you MUST learn how to land before you start flying.

You have to work on the business first before it works for you.

Entrepreneurs pay the price of a road less traveled, while everyone else takes the freeway and perpetually misses their own exit.

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

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

Entrepreneurs don’t ask for permission. They act per a mission.

It’s not about the content we are creating but how much content our customers are creating for us.

If you can’t write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don’t have a clear idea.

Entrepreneurs see what others can't, do what others won't, and accomplish what others dream.

One of the things I’ve learnt about goals is people will write them or wrong them.

Yesterday is a pile of rubble. Today is a pile of opportunity. Life takes a new dump each morning

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

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

If your sole focus is money, you may create a successful startup. But if it's impact, you can probably create history.

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

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.

The moment you think you know something inside out, is the moment you stop listening. That's when you go backwards faster than you progressed

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.

Writing and achieving your goals is not failure, not having a goal to write in the first place is the start of failure.

For any creative thought to be contagious, it must first be worthy of a sneeze.

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

a good product is not the secret to success

Just like any other occupationEntrepreneurship also has stage of remorse.All you need to do is to go more deep to know yourcalling better!