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Pelle Braendgaard: “You’ve all heard the common advice that to startups that you need a good team. I’m sure that is right, however some times and at certain stages that team should consist of just you.”

D. Keith Robinson: “You need focus. Doing something great needs great focus.”

David Heinemeier Hansson: “Look at the project that costs $100,000 and figure out how to make it cost $20,000 over the shoulders of three guys. Do it out of your own pocket and you’ll be forced to reckon with constraints earlier and more intensely.”

Adam Sah:”Numerous friends ask for advice on startups– truth is that it’s 99% regurgitation from these five books, which I recommend reading in this order…”

Anita Campbell:”New research from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics suggests that most failures of American startups will occur in the first two years of their existence.”

Seth Godin in a Fast Company article:

We don’t expect a pigeon to wise up and change its behavior. But what about your boss? Have you ever had a boss who said, “I’ve looked at all the best thinking on [insert issue here: factory expansion, layoffs, global warming, stem-cell research, foreign trade], and I’m going to change my mind; my old position was wrong, and this is what we should do instead”? Or is your boss, well, more like a pigeon?

Simon Woodside: “I just got off the phone with a receptionist at Sun Microsystems. Apparently the entire company is taking the week off. Huh?”

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Joel Welsh: “Maybe you haven’t started up your dream business yet. You’d love to be an entrepreneur and strike out on your own. So, what do you spend your time thinking about? Most people think about the idea for what their business will do to make money. I submit that instead we should be thinking about who we want to be in the foxhole with.”

Tony Plant in a People Management article (via Johnie Moore):

Having observed a lot of meetings and team activities I have concluded that many workers speak “Office Funagalo”. Author McCall Smith tells us that Funagalo, a language invented for giving instructions in African mines, is good for telling people what to do: it has “many words for push, take, carry, load, and no words for happiness”