All Quotes

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.
‐‐ Fred Wilson

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.
‐‐ Robert Collier

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
‐‐ Arthur Ashe

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.
‐‐ Arnold Schwarzenegger

Start with a clean grill. Keep it clean by brushing with a wire brush after preheating, and again after cooking. Make sure to oil your grates and your food before putting it on the grill to keep it from sticking.
‐‐ Emeril Lagasse

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
‐‐ King Solomon

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.
‐‐ Lee Iacocca

Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series.
‐‐ George R. R. Martin

Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.
‐‐ Lawrence Summers

Start with the young, work with them until they are adults, and they will demand real food.
‐‐ Kimbal Musk

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
‐‐ Franz Kafka

Start your week off right by getting back to what is really important - honoring God.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer

Starting a band is the easy part. Once you've formed the band, you have to tell a story, and that story requires songs. And not just good songs, but great songs. After a while, great songs won't do - they have to be the best. Success doesn't make it any easier. Each time I start a new record, it's a brand-new search.
‐‐ The Edge

Starting a business is risky. Half of all new businesses fail to experience a fifth anniversary. And everyone knows that you could lose all the money you've invested in your new company and then some. Those are the obvious risks of trying to be an entrepreneur.
‐‐ Scott Shane

Starting a company is like going to war. You can't do anything else but be fully engaged. You have to be insanely, passionately, nothing-can-stop-me committed.
‐‐ Audrey MacLean

Starting a company, your success is going to be very dependent on how you adapt. You're going to make decisions, you're going to make bets; most of them are going to turn out to be wrong.
‐‐ Jeremy Stoppelman

Starting a new job is always scary, or at least for me it's always scary. It's like the first day of school.
‐‐ Sean Maher

Starting a new retirement plan for those below a certain age is something tens of millions of Americans have already been through at work.
‐‐ Mitch Daniels

Starting and feeding into the cultural war is absolutely unequivocally wrong for us as a nation and bad for the conservative movement.
‐‐ Tim Scott

Starting as a few bands of hunter-gatherers, humanity expanded the food resources afforded by the land a thousandfold through the development of agriculture.
‐‐ Robert Zubrin

Starting at about, I guess, forever, I've always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn't wait to be 16 and get a driver's license.
‐‐ Matthew McConaughey

Starting at age 10, my personality and my identity all stemmed from employment. I had a set to be at. I was a certain way with the cameraman, a certain way with the makeup lady - a normal, routine environment.
‐‐ Jason Bateman

Starting at age four, my mom decided that she was not going to have an idle child in the house. So I started taking dance lessons on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and then I was in acting classes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and I was also modeling on Saturdays. And that was my childhood.
‐‐ Chandra Wilson

Starting early and getting girls on computers, tinkering and playing with technology, games and new tools, is extremely important for bridging the gender divide that exists now in computer science and in technology.
‐‐ Beth Simone Noveck

Starting in '98 when I was researching 'Traffic,' I got to meet really serious people in Washington, which for a screenwriter was kind of a great gift. And I really valued these guys; I stayed in touch with them, and I find their point-of-view quite interesting.
‐‐ Stephen Gaghan

Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you're singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose.
‐‐ Naturi Naughton

Starting in my teens, I was always standing on the corner near our apartment singing harmony with friends. We'd also go to the park and sing under the bridge near the lake for the echo. When it was cold out, we'd stand in the little heated lobby in the project's administration building, where my mom paid the rent each month.
‐‐ Frankie Valli

Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.
‐‐ Ira Glass

Starting in the early 1800s, Southerners in the United States began to defend slavery as their 'peculiar institution,' and northerners didn't mind, since the phrase suggested that chattel bondage was quarantined from the rest of the nation: that it was, or soon would be, a relic of its past and would not define its future.
‐‐ Greg Grandin

Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.
‐‐ John Hawkes

Starting modeling in the '90s, it was quite surreal. They were like, 'You're so different! So weird! So bizarre!' And I'm like, 'I'm so normal. What are you talking about?'
‐‐ Alek Wek

Starting my business has been very hard work. I have received no help from any officials at all.
‐‐ Chen Guangbiao

Starting my career in London was no accident because the city and the industry here are all about theatre and drama, and I respond well to that.
‐‐ Erin O'Connor

Starting my own business was kind of a wakeup call in a number of different ways. I had to meet a payroll every week, and we had to satisfy customers, and we had competitors that we had to compete with in order to have those customers come into our stores, and we had to compete with other employers for our employees.
‐‐ John Mackey

Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out.
‐‐ Alva Noto

Starting on February 1, 2010, and running through until May 30, I will be Toronto Public Library's Writer in Residence, working out of the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculation at the Lillian H. Smith branch at College and Spadina.
‐‐ Karl Schroeder

Starting out, I bet I didn't get a lot of parts because of my strange voice. I'm not consciously thinking, 'Hey, sound like a squeaky dog toy mixed with a bagful of rusty nails.' It's just what my voice has done.
‐‐ Charlie Day

Starting out in a beginner class and really understanding the fundamentals of yoga is really important.
‐‐ Mariel Hemingway

Starting out, iRobot was not an economic rocket ship. It took six and a half years before we had enough money in the bank at the beginning of each month to make payroll. We always made it - we paid salaries at the end of the month, and I always had four weeks to figure things out.
‐‐ Colin Angle

Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.
‐‐ Beth Ditto

Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.
‐‐ Sam Worthington

Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.
‐‐ Greer Garson

Starting reforms in the Soviet Union was only possible from above, only from above. Any attempt to go from below was suppressed, suppressed in a most resolute way.
‐‐ Mikhail Gorbachev

Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.
‐‐ Ted Lindsay

Starting with 'Thirteen,' my known technique is to cast the lead, then find someone with whom they have incredible chemistry.
‐‐ Catherine Hardwicke

Starting young has definitely helped my success. All the experience I gained by touring with other players as a backing artist helped to prepare me for my own big break.
‐‐ Vonda Shepard

Starting your own business isn't just a job - it's a way of life.
‐‐ Richard Branson

Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear.
‐‐ J. Philippe Rushton