Quotes About Success

Everyone starts a film thinking that it would be a big hit. But sometimes it goes haywire.

I believe a No. 1 song starts happening when it's believable and validating.

Everyone starts out desperately trying to make a hit, but some people are just more mistake-prone than others. I happened to be fairly mistake-prone. Of the 40 shows I made, I'd say ten were hits, which is a pretty good average.

Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.

Artists complain about the art world until it starts rubbing their back, then they have their love affair with it.

The challenge starts when you first come to Mumbai. But it's momentary if you win an award.

For me, the game starts with starting pitching.

Pro athletes, how they go through the world is so elevated. The bubble they're in is one of entitlement. And that starts young. By the time they're in college, they've had it a lot of their life.

A hardware startup with a lot of funding and a lot of momentum has a lot less risk.

Launching a successful product or startup has little to do with luck. Any business that gains traction on the market is the result of very careful strategizing and market analysis, not to mention the development of an original product or service.

Being in a band is very much like a startup. You start in a garage. You hope to get interest from investors, like a major record label.

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.

Entrepreneurship works on the apprenticeship model. The best way to learn how to be an entrepreneur is to start a company and seek the advice of a successful entrepreneur in the area in which you are interested. Or work at a startup for a few years to learn the ropes.

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.

Everybody should do at least one startup sometime in life. It's such an amazing ride.

HubSpot has used the lean startup method to build a spectacularly successful company. What I particularly love about HubSpot is that they are so geeked out on data analysis and making evidence-based decisions, which are at the heart of the Lean Startup process.

One of the top causes of startup death - right after cofounder problems - is building something no one wants.

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

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.

Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business.

For most of the early hires you make in a startup, experience doesn't matter very much, and you should go for aptitude.

The answers to all a startup's challenges are out there. By setting up the right mechanisms for gathering feedback, the road to success can be a less bumpy ride.

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.

Customer Development changes almost every aspect of startup behavior, performance, metrics, and, as often as not, success potential.