Startup Quotes

"Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough" "Every startup should address a real and demonstrated need in the world. If you build a solution to a problem lots of people have, it's so easy to sell your product to the world" "I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn’t really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going." "If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion." "When you're building a company, you are building a community" "If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late" "One thing that founders forget is that after they hire employees, they have to retain them" "In general, it's best if you're building something that you yourself need" "Perseverance is the key to starting a successful business" "I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then" "Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard." "If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach" "A startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future" "All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition" "The goal of a startup is not to stay a startup. Being a startup is a means to an end" "This may sound trite, but I believe it to be true: Entrepreneurship is the fabric of what America is all about" "A startup is a company designed to grow fast. Being newly founded does not in itself make a company a startup. Nor is it necessary for a startup to work on technology, or take venture funding, or have some sort of "exit" "I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies." "Don't spend too much time planning; release early and often. Some things will work, others won't. Refine and move forward, and above all, forget the money; just make sure you love what you're doing" "The most dangerous moment for a startup is when you become successful, because then you stop doing the things that made you successful in the first place"