Starting Up Quotes:

I talked with people starting up in the middle of the recession and employees, and supplies and office space were cheap. As far as companies that are already in existence, many became more creative with how they spent their money. A lot of them stopped wasting money that they didn't know they were wasting after they looked hard at their businesses. Some had to change business models because of the economy. Their market didn't exist or wasn't as big anymore.

- JJ Ramberg

topic: Office Space, Starting Up, People, Wasting Money

I don't have any great ambition to go out and make money. But I am still fascinated in starting up businesses and starting it in a way and running in a way that I want to do it.

- Michael Birch

topic: Running, Ambition, Starting Up, Great Ambition

For sure I see so much in Sudan that is wonderful, normal life - young entrepreneurs starting up NGO projects, kids mucking around and being kids. Everything else that happens in normal life in any part of the world, and we never get that in our media coverage. We only talk about Sudan once it's in crisis, so we end up with a distorted sense of what daily life is like for a lot of people.

- Rebecca Hamilton

topic: Kids, Starting Up, Young Entrepreneurs, Media Coverage

Turn the clock to zero, honey, we're starting up a brand new day.

- Sting

source: Sting (2009). “Sting (Songbook)”, p.10, Hal Leonard Corporation

topic: Zero, Starting Up, New Day, Brand New Day

Small blogs are starting up big campaigns.

- Jessica Valenti

source: Source: bigthink.com

topic: Starting Up, Campaigns, Bigs

I’m an entrepreneur at heart. I’m not afraid of starting up, starting over or even failing for that matter, because the fact that I try new things in itself is a victory.

- Lynn Collins

topic: Heart, Starting Up, Starting Over

What is it, Angel?" she said, starting up. "Have they come for me?" "Yes, dearest," he said. "They have come." "It is as it should be," she murmured. "Angel, I am almost glad—yes, glad! This happiness could not have lasted. It was too much. I have had enough; and now I shall not live for you to despise me!" She stood up, shook herself, and went forward, neither of the men having moved. "I am ready," she said quietly.

- Thomas Hardy

source: Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman”, p.484, Thomas Hardy

topic: Angel, Men, Starting Up

I like to work with talented people, I must say that. That's my weakness. I really like to work with good directors. That doesn't mean I don't like to work with starting up young directors, that's fun also.

- Vilmos Zsigmond

source: Source: www.chud.com

topic: Fun, Mean, Starting Up, Good Directors

Spielberg was very young and starting up when we did Sugarland Express and I loved that, but the main thing was that I really loved his talent.

- Vilmos Zsigmond

source: "Chud Rerun: Interview with Vilmos Zsigmond". Interview with Smilin' Jack Ruby, trouble.city. May 13, 2002.

topic: Starting Up, Talent, Starting

Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.

- Drew Houston

source: "The Era Of The #fumblebrag" by Caleb Garling, www.wired.com. March 26, 2015.

topic: Business, Worry, Young Entrepreneurs, Starting Up, Business Owners

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Daily Work, Way In Life

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.

- Thomas S. Monson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Travel, Solo Travel, Soul Life

I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.

- Jeff Bezos

source: "King of Cyber-Commerce". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 4, 2001.

topic: Regret, Business, Trying, Successful Entrepreneurs, Quitting Your Job

The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.

- Marc Benioff

topic: Business, Successful, People, Successful Entrepreneurs, Starting Up

Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.

- Tony Hsieh

topic: Business, Vision, Ends, Starting New Business, Successful Entrepreneurs

Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.

- Jack Dorsey

topic: Business, Numbers, Perfect, Challenges In Business, Business Leadership

Don't worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.

- Jeffrey Zeldman

topic: Business, People, Worry, Inspirational Graphic Design, Design Work

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

- Alton Brown

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Solo Travel, Soul Life

I design my start-up ventures around my own personal beliefs and values.

- Cindy Gallop

source: "Interview With Cindy Gallop, Feminist Founder of MakeLoveNotPorn.com". Interview with Katie Goodman, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 12, 2013.

topic: Design, Beliefs And Values, Venture, Personal Values, Personal Beliefs

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

- Howard Aiken

topic: Life And Love, Business, Congratulations, Daily Work, Innovation And Business

As one of the first employees at a small cellular phone start-up called Nextel, I gained firsthand experience in how a business grows from an idea to a company that, at its peak, employed many thousands.

- Jack Markell

topic: Phones, Ideas, Firsts, Cellular, Cellular Phones

Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.

- Sean Parker

source: "Sean Parker: 'Now Is The Most Toxic Time Ever In Silicon Valley'" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. October 02, 2012.

topic: Running, Blood, Glasses, Enterprising, Starters

A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

- Nolan Bushnell

source: "Mina Bekheet - Cofounder of Oxford Biotech". Enterprising Oxford interview, www.eship.ox.ac.uk.

topic: Ideas, People, Entrepreneur, Amazing People, Successful Leaders

Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world.

- Ann Macbeth

topic: Art, World, Producers, Starting Up

Why should not the knowledge, the skill, the expertness, the assiduity, and the spirited hazards of trade and commerce, when crowned with success, be entitled to give those flattering distinctions by which mankind are so universally captivated? Such are the specious, but false arguments for a proposition which always will find numerous advocates, in a nation where men are every day starting up from obscurity to wealth. To refute them is needless. The general sense of mankind cries out, with irresistible force, "Un gentilhomme est toujours gentilhomme.

- James Boswell

topic: Men, Class, Skills, Captivated, Irresistible Force

In the intercourse of social life, it is by little acts of watchful kindness recurring daily and hourly,--and opportunities of doing kindnesses if sought for are forever starting up,--it is by words, by tones, by gestures, by looks, that affection is won and preserved. He who neglects these trifles yet boasts that, whenever a great sacrifice is called for, he shall be ready to make it, will rarely be loved. The likelihood is, he will not make it; and if he does, it will be much rather for his own sake than for his neighbor's.

- George Augustus Henry Sala

topic: Kindness, Sacrifice, Opportunity, Great Sacrifice, Starting Up

Once a character has gelled it's an unmistakable sensation, like an engine starting up within one's body. From then onwards one is driven by this other person, seeing things through their eyes ...

- Deborah Moggach

topic: Character, Eye, Body, Starting Up

A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

- Anne Bancroft

topic: Life Lesson, Thinking, Risk, New Projects, Expeditions

I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to read." This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons.

- Stephen King

topic: Guy, Advice, Rope, Chilled, Mount Everest

I really do think cancer will largely be a solved problem. I think most of the infectious diseases like malaria - our foundation is very involved - once we're finishing polio eradication, then starting up this malaria eradication, and getting that done as fast as we can.

- Bill Gates

source: "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

topic: Infectious Diseases, Polio, Starting Up