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The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experience. It's excuses. -- Sarah Lacy
I had dreams of starting a company like Burmah Shell. -- Dhirubhai Ambani
The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experiences. It's excuses. -- Sarah Lacy
As a kid, I harbored this fantasy of starting a company. I looked at the entrepreneur column in Forbes. I looked at it every month and thought, 'I want to be that guy.' -- Jeremy Stoppelman
This concept that starting a company is so hard and that you'll never make it is conspiracy concocted by the rich and powerful to keep you from trying - and you've fallen for it. -- Jason Calacanis
In most parts of the world, starting a company that goes bust is dubbed a 'failure.' In Silicon Valley, we call this 'gaining experience.' We are willing to take the risks that are inherent for innovation. -- Sebastian Thrun
The hardest thing about starting a company and running a company is, there's just so many expectations on you, and there are so many people who have things that they want you to do. It's a lot like life about that. -- Ben Horowitz
At age 28, I had no retail experience, no consumer marketing experience and no real Internet experience. But I decided I wanted to work for myself. I felt starting a company would enable me to get the responsibility I deserved and that I couldn't do that within the confines of a bigger company. -- Mariam Naficy
I consistently run into young adults who have quickly turned away from traditional jobs at great companies to try their hand at a start-up. I believe that some of this stems from the desire to strike it big like Mark Zuckerberg, but I also believe it is because starting a company has become far cooler than working in one. -- Maynard Webb
The bad thing about young people starting a company is that sometimes they do it for the wrong reasons or because they have the wrong skill set, but the good thing is that they don't have any of the old paradigms baked into them, so they have a lot of the bright new ideas that are harder to come by as you get older. -- Ben Horowitz
You simply can't be tentative in a startup. You have to go for it at every chance you get. And if the leader of the organization is anxious, his or her fear pervades the organization. Everything comes from the top in a company. So if you are starting a company or building one, face your fears and move past them. It's critically important to your company. -- Fred Wilson
I started a theater company when I was 17. -- Stephen Moyer
You know what? Starting a car company is risky. -- Henrik Fisker
I wanted to start a hotel company from scratch. -- Barry Sternlicht
I started a feta cheese company, Euphrates, in upstate New York in 2002. -- Hamdi Ulukaya
In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks. -- William Lyon Phelps
I always wanted to start a public company and make a lot of money. -- Martin Shkreli
The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal. -- David Geffen
Silicon Valley is the best place to start a tech company in so many ways. -- Niklas Zennstrom
I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials. -- Devon Sawa
Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck. -- Guy Kawasaki
When you start a company, it's a singular focus. You have the wind at your back. -- Howard Schultz
When you start a new company, you have to do it all. Yes, all of it. -- Kathryn Minshew
I'm going to start a lot of companies. These are not sham companies. These are great businesses. -- Eric Lefkofsky
If you start a successful company in China at 11 A.M., by 2 P.M. there's three more companies like it. -- Douglas Leone
Be careful not to start a company that really belongs as a feature of another company, like the 25 Twitter URL shortener companies out there. Pick a real problem that's here to stay. -- Aaron Patzer
Recessions are the best time to start a company. Companies fail. Others hold back capital. If you are willing to do the preparation and work, it is the best time to invest in yourself and start a business. -- Mark Cuban
I love picking people. I started Blackstone, and we had no people, and now we have with our portfolio companies about 750,000 people all over the world. Everybody who is at a senior level has ultimately been picked by me. -- Stephen A. Schwarzman
I started my first company when I was in my college dorm as a senior with two of my really good friends. We started a company that became SparkNotes.com. You know CliffsNotes? SparkNotes is a modern-day version of that. -- Sam Yagan
It's much easier for a middle class Indian entrepreneur to start up a computer company than it is for an Indian company to build roads and transportation systems suitable for a population that is getting wealthier and demanding more basic services. -- Jerry A. Webman
I had always thought of starting my own record company. I haven't regretted the decision - yet! -- Julian Lennon
Starting a company is a cause, not a job. Once it becomes a job, that's when you lose -- Ben Parr
I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while. -- Marissa Mayer
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
It seems like every time I agree to work with a video game company they go out of business. I stopped because I was starting to feel guilty. -- Neil Gaiman
Work-life balance for founders doesn't look like work-life balance for everyone else. Starting a company isn't a nine-to-six job - or a nine-to-nine job, or a nine-to-midnight job. -- Kathryn Minshew

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