A list of funny quotes about startups
A handful of my favorite, funnier quotes on startups, or quotes that can easily apply to startup life.
Here’s a list of startup resources that I’ve found helpful for general or specific circumstances.
Here’s a list of my favorite quotes in general.
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“As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.”
—Ben Horowitz, Co-Founder of Andreessen Horowitz
“It’s hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower.”
—Paul Graham, Co-Founder of Y Combinator
“Every time we launch a feature, people yell at us.”
—Angelo Sotira, Co-Founder of DeviantArt
“If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.”
—Reid Hoffman, Co-Founder of LinkedIn
“It’s not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.”
—Edwin Land, Co-Founder of Polaroid
“There is no finish line. So love the journey.”
—David Weekly, Co-Founder of PBworks
“Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.”
—Biz Stone, Co-Founder of Twitter
“We are currently not planning on conquering the world.”
—Sergey Brin, Co-Founder of Google
“Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”
—Drew Houston, Founder of Dropbox.
“Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.”
—Chris Dixon, General Partner at Andreesen Horowitz
“In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.”
—Steve Case, Co-Founder of AOL
“An entrepreneur is someone who will jump off a cliff and assemble an airplane on the way down.”
—Reid Hoffman, Co-Founder of LinkedIn
“It’s hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower.”
—Paul Graham, Co-Founder of Y Combinator
“Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise.”
—Ted Turner, Founder of CNN
“If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan.”
—Claire Cook, Author
“If you see a snake, just kill it — don’t appoint a committee on snakes.”
—Ross Perot, Founder of EDS
“If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.”
—Mario Andretti, Formula 1 World Champion
“If you’re looking for perfection, do not... do not work with humans; and certainly not entrepreneurs and startups, early-stage startups.”
—Jason Calacanis, Investor