Quotes About Ambition

For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.

Working at a startup to make a lot of money was never a thing, and that's why I decided to just finish up school. That was way more important for me.

I have this passion for building things, so I always wanted to build a startup. I always wanted to start my own company.

In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day.

If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.

In a startup, there have to be challenges. Otherwise, someone else would have done it already. And that's almost the most exciting part.

I would never be able to work on a photo-sharing app or 'Internet startup XYZ.'

Startups, in some sense, have gotten so easy to start that we are confusing two things. And what we are confusing, often, is, 'How far can you get in your first day of travel?' with, 'How long it is going to take to get up to the top of the mountain?'

At Andreessen Horowitz, we talk about the notion of being 'too hungry to eat.' That's to say, we often see startups that are so entrenched in the product that the founders forget they need muscle to grow.

If I had a do over, I'd indubitably start investing in startups earlier in life!

The only rollercoasters I get on are startups.

I'll never starve.

I don't care if I starve.

When I was about 12, I came home from middle school and told my parents I wanted to be an actor. My father didn't say it to me, but he told my mom, 'No. I'm not going to allow that. He'll starve to death.' I grew up in a small town in Illinois where being an actor was not something people did.

When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'

Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.

When I moved from Boston to L.A., I floundered. I definitely did time at the Improv and the Comedy Store, making 20 bucks a night. I learned how to be a starving comic. I was an in-debt comic: I ate well on loan.

When I was playing bluegrass, I was living down in West Hollywood - starving.

I was planning on being a starving artist.

I've been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn't starving; I was going to eat the next day.

In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.

For me, I'm not in an industry where I'm starving.

When I was little, I remember rehearsing starving so that when I got to New York I would know how to do it.

I was a starving artist.