310 Quotes About Startup

Once true passion hits you, you can recognize all the times in your life you were chasing the wrong dream. And after you've experienced that sustained fulfillment, you'll never want to settle for anything less.

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)

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

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

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.

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

Team performance is directly proportional to team stability. Focus on building and maintaining a stable team. Stability reduces friction and increases credibility and confidence.

In deciding what to sell, the best approach is to sell what people buy—in other words, think more aboutwhat people really want than about what you think they need

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