A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
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Similar John A. Shedd quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- Nobody will value you unless you show them how valuable you are
- Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
- Good is the enemy of great
- It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.
- To escape fear, you have to go through it, not around.
- Better to fail on your own terms than succeed on someone else’s.
- Being busy doesn’t mean being productive.
- The common question that gets asked in business is, ‘why?’ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‘why not?’
- Creativity is just connecting things.
- Leaders see the opportunities beyond what’s done to what’s possible.
- We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.
- If you don’t have paying customers, you have a hobby.
- Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
- I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.
- It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
- Life has no limitations except the ones we make.
- Leveraging existing resources is innovation’s sweetest play.
- All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you’re Woolworth’s.
- The secret to success is constancy of purpose.
- The death of the entrepreneur is solitude.
