Paul Graham on Growth Quotes

"You have to be able to see the potential in something that looks like a toy."

"Keep your identity small."

"The most successful people are often the ones who are least afraid of looking stupid."

"The best founders are the ones who are most resilient."

"The most important thing for a startup is to focus on growth."

"The way to do really big things is to do really small things and grow them."

"The most important thing for a startup is to build something people want. If you do that, everything else will take care of itself."

"The secret to doing great work is to be curious."

"The most important thing for a startup is to be able to move fast. You have to be able to iterate quickly and learn from your mistakes."

"Writing about something teaches you what you think."

"Confidence is often just a byproduct of having done something hard."

"The most damaging thing you learned in school wasn't something you learned in a specific class. It was learning to get good grades."

"The most successful businesses are the ones that solve a real problem for a large number of people."

"The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away."

"You can't see the whole thing at the beginning. You have to start and let the idea grow."

"If you can't decide between two courses of action, choose the one that's more difficult."

"Empirically, the way to do really big things seems to be to start with deceptively small things."

"A startup is a company designed to grow fast. Being newly founded does not in itself make a company a startup. Nor is it necessary for a startup to work on technology, or take venture funding, or have some kind of exit."

"The only essential thing is growth. Everything else we associate with startups follows from growth."

"The most important thing for a startup is to be able to scale. You have to be able to grow your business without losing quality."

"A creative person is someone who is always looking for a better way to do things."

"Adults are not just older children."

"Do things that don't scale."