Startups Quotes

“If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.”
― Mario Andretti

“If you are going to be in business, you must learn about money: how it works, how it flows, and how to put it to work for you.”
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If you aren’t embarrassed by the first version of your product, you shipped too late.”
― Reid Hoffman

“Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones?”
― Onyi Anyado

“Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effort, moment after moment, is our way. In an exact sense, the only thing we actually can study in our life is that on which we are working in each moment. We cannot even study Buddha’s words.”
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“So we should be concentrated with our full mind and body on what we do; and we should be faithful, subjectively and objectively, to ourselves, and especially to our feelings. Even when you do not feel so well, it is better to express how you feel without any particular attachment or intention. So you may say, “Oh, I am sorry, I do not feel well.”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

“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.”
― Paul Graham

“When you walk in silence your excellence will always speak for you.”
― Onyi Anyado

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

“If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far go together", African Proverb”
― Paul Oberschneider, Why Sell Tacos in Africa?: 16 life-changing business strategies you can use anywhere, from the man who turned $400 into $200 million

“Investors are people with more money than time.
Employees are people with more time than money.
Entrepreneurs are simply the seductive go-betweens.
Startups are business experiments performed with other people’s money.
Marketing is like sex: only losers pay for it.”
“Company culture is what goes without saying.
There are no real rules, only laws.
Success forgives all sins.
People who leak to you, leak about you.
Meritocracy is the propaganda we use to bless the charade.
Greed and vanity are the twin engines of bourgeois society.
Most managers are incompetent and maintain their jobs via inertia and politics.
Lawsuits are merely expensive feints in a well-scripted conflict narrative between corporate entities.
Capitalism is an amoral farce in which every player—investor, employee, entrepreneur, consumer—is complicit.”
― Antonio García Martínez, Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

“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.”
― Rob Fitzpatrick, The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

“If building a startup is a roller-coaster ride, then fund-raising is a roller coaster in the dark - you don't even know what's coming!”
― Uri Levine, Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution: A Handbook for Entrepreneurs

“We are all vessels of profound possibilities.

When we learn to accept we're not the creator, but simply a conduit of knowledge...

Then we can create.”
― Henry Joseph-Grant

“A true entrepreneur is not concerned with valuation or traction, but rather with following their purpose, innovating, and making a positive contribution to the world.”
― Abhysheq Shukla, The Reflection "Success or Stress" Choose Wisely

“Purpose is what drives entrepreneurship, not valuation or traction.”
― Abhysheq Shukla, Crosspaths Multitude to Success

“Raising funds is just the beginning for startups in the crypto industry; the real struggle lies in navigating a volatile market and rapidly evolving regulatory landscape.”
― Abhysheq Shukla

“While capital infusion provides a crucial lifeline, startups in the crypto industry must adapt swiftly, innovate constantly, and establish solid partnerships to overcome the challenges that arise after fundraising.”
― Abhysheq Shukla

“The crypto industry's fast pace and intense competition demand that startups not only secure funding but also develop resilient business models, build trust with investors, and execute strategic plans meticulously to survive and thrive in this complex ecosystem.”
― Abhysheq Shukla

“It's harder to go from 0 to 1 than from 1 to 10. You can scale and multiply what's there, but zero will remain zero no matter how hard it's multiplied.”
― Thomas Vato

“If you ask people...

"What is your why?"

Most will say material things or validation which they've never had.

That's because they don't have purpose.”
― Henry Joseph-Grant

“In the world of startups and entrepreneurship, a pitch deck is your canvas, and your ideas are the paint. Craft it wisely, and you'll create a masterpiece that attracts investors and partners.”
― Abhysheq Shukla, Crosspaths Multitude to Success

“The art of the perfect pitch deck lies in the balance between data and storytelling. It's not just about what you say; it's about how you make your audience feel.”
― Abhysheq Shukla, Crosspaths Multitude to Success

“A well-crafted pitch deck is not just a presentation; it's a story that inspires confidence, captures imagination, and compels action.”
― Abhysheq Shukla, Crosspaths Multitude to Success

“Many AI startups fail not because of their business, tech, or market, but because they expect to make money too quickly.”
― Ashok Veda

“Today who abandons their family for their entrepreneurial dream, tomorrow will abandon their employees when that dream goes bankrupt.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“You cannot be an entrepreneur, unless you are a good provider. As a 9 to 5 person, your family is your responsibility, as an entrepreneur the families of your employees are your responsibility, as well as the welfare of your customers or clients. Today who abandons their family for their entrepreneurial dream, tomorrow will abandon their employees when that dream goes bankrupt.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“If it takes $300bn to end world hunger,
and 7 trillion to fund the next AI wonder,
how many people have to starve to death,
to feed the appetite of the cyberworld?”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“If I haven't already inspired you to make changes, take healthy risks, and help others, I have more work to do.”
― Marion Bekoe, I WILL BE A BILLIONAIRE: The right mindset is the first step towards the journey.

“Chase the needs, and you are halfway to entrepreneurship.”
― Jagadish Varadharajan