Michael Moritz Quotes

I love Hunch, the awesome team, my brilliant cofounders - we're doing great work and building a great company.

The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.

Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

I'm an engineer turned entrepreneur who's passionate about connection.

In my view, it's irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others.

If there's ever an example of the importance of making bold bets and focusing on what you love, it's Twitter.

There are a lot more companies with a lot younger people. It is just like 23-year-olds are starting companies, and they are scaling really quickly.

Innovation comes to you from creators who do have a vision and a passion, and that is how we succeeded.

If I had to give one piece of advice to a budding entrepreneur, I would say: 'Aim big.'

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.

It wasn't until we got our first office in Palo Alto where things became more like a company. We never went into this wanting to build a company.

Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.

I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success.

Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

I always knew I wanted to run a business someday.

I never went to college. But the structure I grew up with was planted so deep that when it came to doing business, I knew how to be disciplined, create teamwork, and persevere. It set me up to be an entrepreneur and a successful franchiser.

Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.

I've been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have.

Who's more likely to succeed - someone with high skill and no ambition, or no skill and high ambition? If you're an entrepreneur, you can hire as many skilled people for your business as you want.

I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

I was making projections about 'Humans of New York,' back when I had zero followers, that made all my friends and family roll their eyes. I'd throw out these huge numbers: 'One day, a million people are gonna be looking at this. Trust me.' And even those wild, wild numbers I was throwing out have just been smashed. So, it's a good feeling.

If you are not able to transmit what you're trying to achieve to your collaborators, you will only have minions - or morons.

I've always had a passion for technology, photography, startups, and connecting people. Bringing those aspects together made me successful.

Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources.