Quotes About Perseverance

If you are somebody who has a disease, you are not complaining when someone starts to do work for you. That is your hope.

ICOs cannot escape startup evolution characteristics. This means that their growth will be hard fought, hard earned, and hardly a walk in the park.

At a startup, it's hard enough to get a single thing right, much less a whole bunch of things. Especially if the things you are trying to do are not only dissimilar but actively impede each other.

The reality of a startup is you have failures very often.

In the startup world, 'not working' is normal.

As an entrepreneur, the pressures of a startup can be enormous, but it's rarely life or death.

Startup stories are always smoother in the telling than they are in reality. A startup is not one, but a series of 'Aha!' moments, and some which seem like 'Aha!' moments but turn out not to be.

It's a fight to get anyone other than your mom to care about your startup.

A startup, to a some degree, is a set of those challenges of, 'If you don't solve this, you're dead.'

Don't do a startup unless you're ideologically driven to make it succeed beyond the economic motivation.

You can't predict the future, and you've got to go with your gut on these things, and I'm sure if you speak to a laundry list of CEOs and people who have gone through the startup process themselves, they'll say it's an endless hurdle race, and you are inevitably going to catch your legs on hurdles, and it's just how you roll with that.

Failure will happen. It's a normal part of the startup process.

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

The only way I know to be awesome at startups is to be obsessively focused and pegged to the floor of the deep end, gasping for air.

The main thing to know about me is that I'm a champion of entrepreneurs and the startups they build. They are my rock stars. If in doubt, I side with them, and that's clear from my writing.

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.

I love working with really early stage startups where the outcome is still in doubt. Maybe they'll go on to greatness, or maybe they'll never get off the runway at all.

Early-stage startups are all about the founders and team.

The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.

Death by starvation is slow.

And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

We lived in the mountains for 14 months without much food. People were dying from starvation.

I would rather die in freedom on my way back home than starve to death here.

I'll never starve.