patience
the art of waiting
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patience
Listen. I wish I could tell you it gets better. But, it doesn’t get better. You get better.
Joan Rivers
Joan Rivers
Patricia • The Rabbit Hole 🕳🐇 issue no.41
VC requirement for SaaS companies to scale to $10M ARR in record time is BS.
UiPath: $500K 10 years in.
Klaviyo: $1M ARR 3 years in.
Lightspeed: $10M ARR 8 years in.
It takes time to nail true customer love.... See more
Harry Stebbingsx.comthis insight from Visa:
when you have a game-changing insight you’ll often have to repeat it for 5-7 years before people start to really get it
I do not mean passivity, which is frequently mistaken for patience. It is passivity that tells us not to fight for our work. It is passivity that takes “no” for a final answer. Passivity is exactly that: pass-ive. We take a pass on growth on our own behalf. Patience is very different. Patience is not the acceptance of weakness. It is the quiet,
... See moreJoseph Heller wrote Catch 22 in the evenings after work - it took him eight years spending 2-3 hours each night.
source: Daily Rituals, Mason Currey
The fact is, star brands take time to grow. Take some of the small makeup companies we have acquired recently, like Bliss and Urban Decay. When we bought them, they were little start-ups run by their founders—very simple businesses, but with a lot of originality in the products. So now we know we must nurture them until they have some history. But
... See moreSuzy Wetlaufer • The Perfect Paradox of Star Brands: An Interview with Bernard Arnault of LVMH
Luxury takes time to be achieved and to be appreciated. Luxury cannot and must not move fast.
-Giorgio Armani
Jim Simons: "I’m not an extremely fast thinker myself; I just work hard."
That was all I needed to do—work hard, not fast. A paper I published in '68 took me five years. But it has had 1,850 citations. For a math paper, that’s an awful lot.
There’s too much emphasis on a person’s being able to answer questions quickly."