Startups Quotes

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.

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.

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

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

Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones?

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.

There can’t be anything more fatal to a business than making decisions based on somebody else’s assumptions.

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.

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

When you walk in silence your excellence will always speak for you.

If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far go together", African Proverb

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.

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.

Era o tempo das startups, das incubadoras de startups, das aceleradoras de startups e das aceleradoras de incubadoras. Quando a Troika bateu em força e a terra tremeu, os tugas tiveram de ser imaginativos e, meu Deus, ninguém vai conseguir acreditar na projeção destes projetos.