Quotes

But there’s something else I’ve found this year. It’s that fighting to survive keeps you going for quite a while. When you are no longer in a survive-or-die mode, it’s not that easy to get motivated every day. (from Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson)

someone who has low self-esteem is really a narcissist in disguise, because both share the obsession with the self, no matter if it’s awesome or awful.

Alex Dobrenko • What Does Your Stupid Art Even Do for the World?

Your company will grow as quickly as your customers determine it will grow.

Sahil Lavingia • The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less

It’s not your job to finish a book. It’s the author’s job to write a book worth finishing.

"You might presume, then, that this means our broader appetite for minerals is diminishing. Not a bit of it. For it turns out oil and other fossil fuels have only ever represented a fraction of the total mass of resources we’re extracting from the earth. For every tonne of fossil fuels, we exploit 6 tonnes of other materials – mostly sand and

The audience comes last. The audience doesn't know what they want. The audience only knows what's come before. - Rick Rubin

Deliberatness and curiosity will cure boredom in any task.

There are essentially two business models right now: boring, useful things that can print money and tastemaker brands that can brute force cultural relevancy. Dumb $ is funding the middle: stuff that is neither useful nor cool enough to make it past current startup headwinds.

Daisy Alioto twitter.com

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12 ideas from Don Valentine (founder of Sequoia) 1. There are two things in business that matter, and you can learn this in two minutes- you don’t have to go to business school for two years: high gross margins and cash flow. The other financial metrics you can forget. 2. The… Show more

David Senra

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