“You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.”

misanthropic.

you run because the alternative, stopping, scares you to death.

More than a product, we were trying to sell an idea—a spirit.

To study the self is to forget the self. Mi casa, su casa. Oneness—in some way, shape, or form, it’s what every person I’ve ever met has been seeking.

It’s possible that everything I did in those days was motivated by some deep yearning to impress, to please, Bowerman. Besides my father there was no man whose approval I craved more, and besides my father there was no man who gave it less often.

quixotic

The cowards never started and the weak died along the way. That leaves us, ladies and gentlemen. Us.

And those who urge entrepreneurs to never give up? Charlatans. Sometimes you have to give up. Sometimes knowing when to give up, when to try something else, is genius. Giving up doesn’t mean stopping. Don’t ever stop.