Startup Quotes

Learning is limited by an organization’s ability to keep its people.

The question you should be asking isn't, 'What do I want?' or 'What are my goals?' but 'What would excite me?'

Long commutes make you fat, stressed, and miserable. Even short commutes stab at your happiness.

I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past.

As you consider building your own minimum viable product, let this simple rule suffice: remove any feature, process, or effort that does not contribute directly to the learning you seek.

Whatever your income, always live below your means.

A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.

Motivation is pivotal to healthy lives and healthy companies. Make sure you’re minding it.

If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Don't blame other people for your problems.

A startup is a human institution designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

Wealth is more often the result of a lifestyle of hard work, perseverance, planning, and, most of all, self-discipline.

People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

If you can’t let your employees work from home out of fear they’ll slack off without your supervision, you’re a babysitter, not a manager. Remote work is very likely the least of your problems.

The greatest of all weaknesses is the fear of appearing weak.

The fundamental response to change is not logical, but emotional.

We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want.

You’re only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. You’ve done something.

You are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.

The fundamental response to change is not logical, but emotional.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

The single most powerful asset we all have is our mind. If it is trained well, it can create enormous wealth in what seems to be an instant.

Forcing everyone into the office every day is an organizational Single Point of Failure (SPoF).

The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.

The first way design fails is due to lack of it.

You have the right to make mistakes—and be responsible for them.

What we think affects how we feel, and how we feel affects how we think.

A set of people does not make a team. It only exists as a group. A team is a set of people working towards a common goal. An effective leader aligns people towards that goal.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

Great software today is often preferable to perfect software tomorrow.

The manager’s function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work.

The modern office has become an interruption factory.

Reading is good, action is better.