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Bootstrapping is a way to do something about the problems you have without letting someone else give you permission to do them.

- Tom Preston-Werner (@mojombo)

http://startupquote.com/post/9892955627

You can’t make anything viral, but you can make something good.

- Peter Shankman (@petershankman)

http://startupquote.com/post/9696020016

It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you.

- Jason Cohen (@asmartbear)

http://startupquote.com/post/9655587170

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

- Jack Dorsey (@jack)

http://startupquote.com/post/9615329871

Recessions are great because they unlock the best people.

- Aaron Patzer (@apatzer)

http://startupquote.com/post/9572197724

It became an exercise to reduce and reduce, but it makes it easier to build an easier for people to work with.

- Jonathan Ive

http://startupquote.com/post/9390307907

For every new feature we add, we take an old one out. A lot of big sites don’t do that, and it’s a problem.

- David Karp (@davidkarp)

http://startupquote.com/post/9367012985/

Your biggest challenge will be building a great team.

- John Doerr

http://startupquote.com/post/9321949381/

Zerply is totally AWESOME.

When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of woolly thinking.

- Tim O’Reilly (@timoreilly)

http://startupquote.com/post/9280412602/

If there are too many competitors, even if you’re the best it’s a lot harder to win.

- Tony Hsieh (@Zappos)

http://startupquote.com/post/9109034826/

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.

- Steve Jobs

http://startupquote.com/post/9057337917/

Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever.

- Noah Everett (@noaheverett)

http://startupquote.com/post/8969807806/

When something really shitty happens we try not to take it personally, figuring that tomorrow is another day.

- Mike Hudack (@mhudack)

http://startupquote.com/post/8766099467

Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

- Michael Dell (@MichaelDell)

http://startupquote.com/post/8672428589

Success and profitability are outcomes of focusing on customers and employees, not objectives.

- Jack Ma

http://startupquote.com/post/8536559840

Data beats emotions.

- Sean Rad (@SeanRad)

http://startupquote.com/post/8506973684

It’s simple until you make it complicated.

- Jason Fried (@jasonfried)

http://startupquote.com/post/8399036416

Most people are searching for a path to success that is both easy and certain. Most paths are neither.

- Seth Godin

http://startupquote.com/post/8353614743

We tell ourselves we’re here to be flexible and to be nimble, and not necessarily to stick to a master plan.

- Ben Huh (@benhuh)

http://startupquote.com/post/8195288306

Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don’t do the obvious thing.

- Fred Wilson (@fredwilson)

http://startupquote.com/post/8159225017

Focus on the user.

- Adam Smith (@asmith)

http://startupquote.com/post/8103810989

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

- Edwin Land

http://startupquote.com/post/7945393499

Learn not to add too many features right away, and get the core idea built and tested.

- Leah Culver (@leahculver)

http://startupquote.com/post/7863784764

Do what you love and the rest will come.

- Dennis Crowley (@dens)

http://startupquote.com/post/7829232439

Talk to your customers. Find out what they need. Don’t pay any attention to the competition. They’re not relevant to you.

- Joel Spolsky (@spolsky)

http://startupquote.com/post/7788469413

When things change, I think that’s easy to get really wrapped up in the complaints.

- Scott Heiferman (@heif)

http://startupquote.com/post/7638861735

Sustaining a successful business is a hell of a lot of work, and staying hungry is half the battle.

- Wendy Tan White (@wendytanwhite)

http://startupquote.com/post/7590260543

Customer research produces bland products. We’re producing a piece of art.

- Michael Arrington (@arrington)

http://startupquote.com/post/7556874181

Big companies are almost always far too slow to actually kill a small competitor.

- Omar Hamoui (@omarh)

http://startupquote.com/post/7530331986