patience

The founder of Pinterest on what surprised him the most when starting a company In the clip below, Ben Silbermann shares what surprised him the most in starting a company after reading about overnight startup successes like Facebook and Instagram: “It can take a really, really… Show more

Listen. I wish I could tell you it gets better. But, it doesn’t get better. You get better.

Joan Rivers

Bad things can happen fast but almost all good things happen slowly

Moxie Marlinspike's career advice: There’s no rush to get started early on a never-ending task. Everything before a career has defined beginnings and endings. Elementary school, middle school, junior high, highschool, university. There’s always been a predefined end, and that contributes... See more

“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter

hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as

much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first

blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last

blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”

Before he was Han Solo or Indiana Jones, Harrison Ford was a carpenter. In 1964, Ford moved to Hollywood to become an actor. “But I arrived on a metaphoric bus full of people who had the same ambition,” he said. So he came up with this plan to prevail over the competition. As Ford spent time around the other aspiring actors on that metaphoric bus,... See more