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Great/Mighty oaks from little acorns grow

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Great/Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.
something that you say in order to emphasize that a large, successful organization or plan was very small or simple when it began. Microsoft, which is now the biggest independent software company in the world, was founded in 1975 by just two men. It goes to show that great oaks from little acorns grow.
See also: from, great, grow, little, mighty
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