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Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!

Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!

Diane Sawyer

Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.

Mary Manin Morrissey

Start small; get to know the landscape. We take risks but not major risks. We always started with small capital - €4m in Holland, $10m in Russia - and as we get to know the landscape of a country, we think about other businesses.

Husnu Ozyegin

Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.

Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.

Mahavira

Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught.

Eric Ries

Start-up teams are always in flux, so, like all start-ups, we're always talking to candidates for various key roles.

Start-up teams are always in flux, so, like all start-ups, we're always talking to candidates for various key roles.

Sean Parker

Start-ups like UniversityNow, a network of low-cost, online colleges, allows students to work at their own pace and pay a few hundred dollars a month for a degree.

Start-ups like UniversityNow, a network of low-cost, online colleges, allows students to work at their own pace and pay a few hundred dollars a month for a degree.

Dan Rather

Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst.

Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst.

Eric Ries

Start-ups often die in the first 18 to 24 months because of formative mistakes, like choosing a bad co-founder or the wrong corporate entity or an inappropriate platform. Ninety percent of the companies the Founder Institute has created are alive because we've helped them avoid those mistakes.

Adeo Ressi

Start-ups should be hunch-driven early on and data-driven as they scale.

Start-ups should be hunch-driven early on and data-driven as they scale.

Fred Wilson

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