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Early Days Quotes

Every big story has a rough, unfinished beginning.

A young boxer learning fundamentals from a disciplined coach, a company's earliest and least polished chapter - this page honors the uncertain starts behind later success.

We used to play a lot of Fela Kuti in the early days of hip-hop. In my DJ sets I'll jump off into rock, salsa, African. I like to play some crazy stuff and see the vibrations of the people.

Quotes by Afrika Bambaataa

In the future, when people look back at the early days of Bitcoin, they'll say, 'It was so obvious that the ability to move money anywhere, instantly, at near-zero cost would be a huge success.

Quotes by Adam Draper

Kevin Systrom of Instagram used to work for us as a consultant in the early days of Mint. I knew him a long time ago. Maybe I could have gotten in there. But with photo sharing, I don't know if...

Quotes by Aaron Patzer

I grew up in Haifa and enjoyed the wonderful beaches and Mount Carmel that rolls into the Mediterranean Sea. From my early days at home, I remember a strong encouragement to study.

Quotes by Aaron Ciechanover

Always Quotes

They're calling their Washington sources at the NRC or in Congress and they're not hesitating to give their opinion, but their opinion, frankly, in those early days was not very well informed.

Quotes by William Scranton

I've known Bezos for decades, since the very early days of Amazon, so it's no surprise to me that he's smart or willing to make big bets.

Quotes by Walt Mossberg

Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.

Quotes by Vijender Singh

Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the early days of testing nuclear bombs, that Russia and America happened to test a nuclear bomb...

Quotes by Val Guest

I was working in email in the early days in the late '80s, and people weren't using electronic communications at all in the way we take for granted today.

Quotes by Suzan DelBene

Back Quotes

This paradox of vision - the genius of youthful ignorance - is nothing new. Had Bill Gates not been in diapers in the early days of computer software, he might have understood that there could never be a market for...

Quotes by Steven Levy

In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent there, and she used to drag me on sets to do parts.

Quotes by Sharon Gless

The thing to keep in mind is that we're still in the very early days when it comes to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Saying there's a silence is a bit like if Columbus, looking to discover a new continent,...

Quotes by Seth Shostak

The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.

Quotes by Sally Ride

Back in the early days of WWE, I remember doing 20 interviews every Tuesday, one right after the other on different topics.

Quotes by Roddy Piper

Days Quotes

Of course, neither David or myself ever saw a penny from them; it was the early days of merchandising.

Quotes by Robert Vaughn

If you have a private firm and you spend a ton of money to pay employees, but what you produce is a flop, there will be no value to GDP. But government spending all gets counted as contributing to economic...

Quotes by Robert Higgs

I first met Michael in the early days of the Jackson 5 at the family home in Los Angeles, and the memory that stands out is that Michael, as cute and wide-eyed as an 11-year-old could be, was eager to...

Quotes by Robert Hilburn

I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood,...

Quotes by Rachel Cusk

Whether it was in the 1980s under Margaret Thatcher, the 1950s under Churchill and Macmillan or in the early days of the Cameron administration, when our party has spoken for the people we have won.

Quotes by Priti Patel

Early Quotes

I hated improvisation because in my early days as an actor, improvisation meant somebody had just come down from Oxford and they were doing a play above a pub in Kentish Town, and the biggest ego would win.

Quotes by Peter Capaldi

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the theme of the Early Days quotes page?
Formative beginnings, whether it's a boxer learning fundamentals from a disciplined coach or a now-famous company's rough, uncertain first chapter.
Why do people search for early days quotes?
Origin stories are compelling because they show that even major successes started small, uncertain, and far from polished.
Do these quotes only cover business beginnings?
No, one focuses on early athletic training under a formative coach, showing the theme extends to sports and personal discipline too.
Is there a quote about historical events from their early period?
Yes, one references the uncertain, poorly understood early days of nuclear testing, reflecting how little was known at the time.
Where can I find more nostalgic or origin-focused quotes?
See Back for nostalgia, or Early for more beginnings.

For more nostalgia, browse Back, or trace where things first took shape under Early.