Marc Andreessen on Business Quotes

"The goal of a startup is to become a real business."

"The best way to get through a crisis is to build your way out."

"Innovation is the only way we have to solve our problems."

"Market matters most."

"Great founders are often the ones who are the most obsessed."

"Software is eating the world."

"The world is always ending, and yet we keep building."

"Don't follow your passion. Your passion is likely to be something you’re not good at."

"You can always feel when product-market fit isn't happening."

"The team is what you have to work with, but the market is what you're working for."

"The only thing that matters is getting to product/market fit."

"In a great market—a market with lots of real potential customers—the market pulls product out of the startup."

"Execution is everything."

"Raising prices is a great way to find out if you have a business."

"The best entrepreneurs are the ones who are the most persistent."

"Most people are not used to an environment where they have to excel."

"The biggest risk is not taking any risk."

"Everything is a choice."

"The speed of the leader is the speed of the team."

"If you can't find a market, you don't have a business, no matter how good your product is."

"The cost of failure is much lower than the cost of not trying."

"Optimism is a strategy for making a better future."

"Disruption is a feature, not a bug, of the free market."

"Cycles are a natural part of the economy and technology."

"We are currently in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift."

"A startup is a team of people, a product, and a market."

"Product-market fit is the only thing that matters for a new venture."

"The world is a very malleable place. If you know what you want, and you go after it with maximum energy and drive and passion, the world will often step out of the way."

"Technology is the glory of human ambition and meaning, the spearhead of progress."

"If you are not the lead dog, the view never changes."

"The quality of a startup's product is secondary to the market it enters."

"We believe that there are no material limits to our growth."