diff --git a/sbin/start-slave.sh b/sbin/start-slave.sh
index c0155384f7395b9355db87cd7cd6effb61da8cad..5a6de11afdd3d0d9e9cbc8a7a79914861b0a6db8 100755
--- a/sbin/start-slave.sh
+++ b/sbin/start-slave.sh
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 # Starts a slave on the machine this script is executed on.
 
-usage="Usage: start-slave.sh <worker#> <spark-master-URL> where <spark-master-URL> is like "spark://localhost:7077"
+usage="Usage: start-slave.sh <worker#> <spark-master-URL> where <spark-master-URL> is like spark://localhost:7077"
 
 if [ $# -lt 2 ]; then
   echo $usage