188 Quotes About Startups

Business growth happens when people remember you.

Have the end in mind and every day make sure your working towards it

If I am hiring someone at a senior level, it's critically important they are decent people. So I always take them out for lunch -- not a long one but enough so they relax, we talk, we get to know one another. But what I always do is notice how they treat the waiting staff; you can tell a lot about a person about how they do that.

Bunch of people go out to the Valley, create something new. Us out here in the world go hmm, that's interesting, and start using it. Meanwhile the Valley guys are convinced they're the second coming of Christ and start overhyping and doing all sorts of things that aren't even useful anymore. The tech press clap and clap until it's time to write the obituary.

If you aren’t embarrassed by the first version of your product, you shipped too late.

You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible.

The world’s most deadly fluff is: “I would definitely buy that.” It just sounds so concrete. As a founder, you desperately want to believe it’s money in the bank. But folks are wildly optimistic about what they would do in the future. They’re always more positive, excited, and willing to pay in the imagined future than they are once it arrives.

Job creaters not job seekers sounds like a great policy goal but given Modi's history of slogans I am not sanguine that this will go anywhere. As a matter of fact, current Startup India program is highly bureaucratized, almost to the point of being choked off, is a shining example of what not to do.

Innovation is insights put into action.