Start Up Business Quotes

1. "A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker."
Author: Ann Bancroft

2. "When there were no customers, he thought about geometry. He tried to perform the Pythagorean Theorem on the light fixture above him, given his estimate of its circumference, but he failed. He wanted to be good at math. But he just wasn't. He wanted so badly for the math club to accept him, but to them he was a loser. During rush week they battered him blue with yard sticks; they tied him to a table naked and made him prove problems involving half circles before a huge swinging protractor cut him in half; they forced him to continually calculate the remaining volume of the kegs he had to drink, working it out by hand as he was held upside down. After he didn't get in the club, they had started ganging up on him every day, sticking his head in the toilet and stealing his lunch money. Business was slow at the moment, and he thought about ending his life in the kitchen appliance aisle."
Author: Benson Bruno

3. "For me, the winning strategy in any start-up business is, 'Think big but start small.'"
Author: Carmen Busquets

4. "Once I started doing stand-up, everything fell into place. That was when I started acting more; I felt like I'd found my place in the business."
Author: Chris D'Elia

5. "Most phenomenal startup teams create businesses that ultimately fail. Why? They built something that nobody wanted."
Author: Eric Ries

6. "Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money."
Author: Ian Mackaye

7. "As one of the first employees at a small cellular phone start-up called Nextel, I gained firsthand experience in how a business grows from an idea to a company that, at its peak, employed many thousands."
Author: Jack Markell

8. "As an American, you make choices every day for others by supporting your government and its excursions or military actions into other countries. When you buy coffee at the same café every morning, you are choosing to support that business. When you pass judgment on the girl your brother starts to date, you affect his life. When you work for your boss, you choose to support him in his endeavors, as well as everyone else his business touches. You make choices for others every day. The difference is that now you are beginning to realize it. And now you are beginning to own it." -- Vincent"
Author: Jacquelyn Frank

9. "Before I started Code for America, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, small teams trying to make hits in a tough business. Then, when I started working on the Web 2.0 events, it was web startups during times of enormous opportunity and investment."
Author: Jennifer Pahlka

10. "I don't have any great ambition to go out and make money. But I am still fascinated in starting up businesses and starting it in a way and running in a way that I want to do it."
Author: Michael Birch

11. "The true start-up of a business is what happens before you start-up."
Author: Michael E. Gerber

12. "I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer."
Author: Richard Branson

13. "I feel that for the first time in a long time, educated Pakistanis are returning to their country to start up educational projects, to start up businesses, so instead of the brain-drain that happened in the 1950s and 1960s, the country is growing and improving economically."
Author: Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy

14. "I started my own little carpet and upholstery cleaning business. I've done it for 20 years. I live well."
Author: Tommy Kirk

15. "I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business."
Author: Walter Isaacson

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