“There is no such thing as a great executive. There is only a great executive for a specific company at a specific point in time.” — Ben Horowitz
“We tried charging for Stack Exchange, and that didn’t work so well. So we asked ourselves, ‘How would the people of 1999 solve this problem?’ And the best answer we could come up with was, let’s make the damn thing free, and get some VC somewhere to pay for it.” — Joel Spolsky
“Organic startup ideas usually don’t seem like startup ideas at first.” — Paul Graham
“Many people thought of us as a bunch of idiots with lava lamps.” — Eric Schmidt
“Innovation is almost insane by definition: most people view any truly innovative idea as stupid, because if it was a good idea, somebody would have already done it.” — Ben Horowitz
“The past doesn’t matter too much when it comes to valuing companies. It’s all about what is going to happen in the future.” — Fred Wilson
“In my lives, I’ve often found that being crazy isn’t such a bad thing.” — Fred Seibert
“My view of building startups is that it is somewhere between impossible and almost impossible, so you want all the help you can get.” — David Weiden
“Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.” — Steve Jobs
“I had never been interested in being ‘in business’. I’ve been interested in creating things.” — Richard Branson