A company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny because shiny doesn’t last.
A company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny because shiny doesn’t last.

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Other Entrepreneurship :
- You can have the best technology, you can have the best business model, but if the storytelling isn’t amazing, it won’t matter. Nobody will watch.
- Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.
- Complaining is not a strategy.You have to work with the world as you find it, not as you would have it be.
- The road to success is always under construction.
- If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.
- All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
- The keys to success are patience, persistence, and obsessive attention to detail.
- Don’t simply dream, create. Don’t simply create, ship. Don’t simply ship, dream.
- One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passion; your passion chooses you.
- Most startups eventually pivot to adjust to what the market is telling them.
- Don’t play games that you don’t understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.
- For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.
- You lose respect when you demand respect.
- People who don’t venture will keep working for the people who ventured.
- Entrepreneurship isn’t about luck, it’s about vision, time management, creativity, determination and goals.
- The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.
- I’m as proud of many of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things.
- Innovation is the ability to see the change as an opportunity; not a threat.
- I never fail. It’s just that the people around me succeed more than I.
- A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.