Initial Investment Quotes

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

It does not take money to make money.

Money is a very fundamental ingredient in anyone starting up a new business.

I started with capital of about $1,500, a princely sum for a student coming out of college, an amount I borrowed from my father.

When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.

In my experience, fledgling entrepreneurs focus way too much on the money - you can get most things done and figure out a lot without spending much. That said, most businesses require money to launch and get off the ground.

The biggest thing is getting the kid in a kart - they have to buy it and that's the biggest thing. You can go to a sporting store and buy a basketball for 30 bucks or a football for 30 bucks. You go buy a go-kart and that's 300 bucks. What are you going to get? A basketball or a go-kart?

Tis easier to build two chimneys, then to maintaine one.

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?'

My dream was to set up my own e-commerce company. In 1999, I gathered 18 people in my apartment and spoke to them for two hours about my vision. Everyone put their money on the table, and that got us $60,000 to start Alibaba. I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name.

Stan and I funded the first phase of the work ourselves. It was secret.

To make any gain some outlay is necessary.

I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery.

As of 2011, it cost about $5,000 to launch a tech startup.

The three of us pitched in $15,000 a piece to get it started.

When I was 20 years old, if you had a $100 bill and a good idea and a strong work ethic, you could start a company.

People often ask me if my parents helped me. My mother did lend me $10 to register the domain name.

Working on a token is similar to working on a startup: higher risk and lower initial impact but higher upside potential. How core protocol work is best funded beyond the initial Ethereum Foundation endowment is an open question, but likely further out.

It is expensive to start from scratch though.

Start small and with your own money.

If one makes a short film with reasonable technical finesse, it will cost between Rs. 50,000 and Rs. one lakh. That's a lot of money for someone starting off.

I'm always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money.

When I set up UTV, my ambitions were quite low.

There are many people who think we had the first-mover advantage. But actually, when Uber came to India, Ola was doing only 2,000 rides per day. We had less than half a million dollars of funding.

In 2000, just before the first dot-com bubble burst, it cost a whopping $5 million to launch a tech startup.