founder's mentality

There is a filmmaker that worked for Pixar that put this beautifully, and he used the metaphor of doing anything difficult, but for your high purposes of building a company. He says, "If you're sailing across the ocean and your goal is to avoid weather and waves, then why the hell are you sailing?" You have to embrace that sailing means that you... See more

Email from Steve Jobs to Apple employees on the day it surpassed Microsoft to become largest tech firm

Did Steve jobs ever say, "Hey, I want to make a $100 million company?" That was never in discussion. He said, "I want to make insanely great products. Then I want to get really good at marketing because I want everybody in the world to have an Apple device, and the way to do that is to get really good at marketing."

the science of business is scaling, and the art of business is things that don’t scale

Build the game you can win . The corollary to the above is that to succeed; you must build a game that you are singularly suited to play.