Actually startups take off because the founders make them take off.
Paul Graham
Favourite quotes.
Focus
Building
If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.
Reid Hoffman
It’s better to have 100 people love you than a million people sort of like you.
Brian Chesky
From now on, failure doesn’t matter: you only have to be right once.
Drew Houston
Make offers so good people feel stupid saying no.
Alex Hormozi
In short, software is eating the world.
Marc Andreessen
There is no silver bullet that’s going to fix that. No, we are going to have to use a lot of lead bullets.
Bill Turpin
There’s a whole world of opportunity out there if you’re willing to be rejected.
Melanie Perkins
Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength.
Sara Blakely
Our company is thirty days from going out of business.
Jensen Huang
Mindset
The most successful people I know believe in themselves almost to the point of delusion.
Sam Altman
Pain + Reflection = Progress.
Ray Dalio
Life is a single-player game.
Chris Williamson
Honestly, my ambition comes from abusive relationships.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
Entrepreneurs have a nomadic soul.
Anita Roddick
Micro speed, macro patience.
Gary Vaynerchuk
Play long-term games with long-term people.
Naval Ravikant
Compounding feels boring for a long time before it feels obvious.
David Carr
People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.
Bill Gates
I have no idea when I first said this, but the fact remains that, when it comes to business, I believe in the value of paranoia.
Andy Grove
Decisions and people
People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are.
Steve Jobs
Competition is for losers.
Peter Thiel
Some decisions are consequential and irreversible or nearly irreversible -- one-way doors -- and these decisions must be made methodically, carefully, slowly.
Jeff Bezos
It is in the nature of things, as Jacobi knew, that many hard problems are best solved only when they are addressed backwards.
Charlie Munger
You fill five buckets in order: what you know, what you can do, who you know, what you have, and what people think of you.
Steven Bartlett
Whatever is to be diffused can reach a larger number of people, and traverse greater social distance, when passed through weak ties rather than strong.
Mark Granovetter
The learn-it-all will always trump the know-it-all in the long run, even if they start with less innate capability.
Satya Nadella
If you get the culture right, then a lot of really amazing things happen on their own.
Tony Hsieh
Instead of extracting value from nature and transforming it into wealth, we are using the wealth Patagonia creates to protect the source.
Yvon Chouinard