Entrepreneurship
Resources, thoughts, and ideas for when starting a company
Entrepreneurship
The entire self-help industry in one sentence: Do what makes mornings exciting and nights peaceful.
Will this make me excited to wake up? Will this let me sleep in peace?
Everything that fails both tests is noise.
-Shane Parrish
my bold; from Brain Food #633
Taking on a challenge is a lot like riding a horse, isn't it? If you're comfortable while you're doing it, you're probably doing it wrong.
-Ted Lasso
from Ted Lasso S1E1
Just because you have doubters—and they will always appear—does not mean you should doubt yourself
Adapted from Tim Ferriss podcast episode with Bob Iger
… build a life and company you don’t want to escape from
-Sari
Success is not having regrets
-Tony Fadell
from Tim Ferriss podcast episode #403
Products make you feel something when you use them, and they make other people feel something about you.
Anu Atluru • Taste Is Eating Silicon Valley.
Make something that stands out in a bland world
if I wanted to implement something new into my game, I’d see it and try incorporating it immediately. I wasn’t scared of missing, looking bad, or being embarrassed. That’s because I always kept the end result, the long game, in my mind.
-Kobe Bryant
Learn fast
When we fail, let it be because we tried to innovate, not emulate.
-Jeffrey Katzenberg, 1991 internal Disney memo
When not if
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Your Greatest Competition
from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry