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.

Similar John A. Shedd quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.
- Customers don’t know what they want until we’ve shown them.
- People don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it. And what you do simply proves what you believe
- To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
- Entrepreneurship is a responsibility rather than a profession.
- Ideas are meaningless without a masterful execution.
- Uncovering the right problem is half the solution.
- Gamblers take blind risks. Entrepreneurs take risks while visually impaired and feel their way up and out.
- Instead of visualizing the price of failure try visualizing the rewards of success. You’ll make it.
- Risk is a necessary component of success.
- If you double the number of experiments you do per year you’re going to double your inventiveness.
- Without having a goal it is difficult to score!
- Negotiation means willfully entering into a professional conflict.
- It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
- Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.
- An entrepreneur is like a musician creating a new song.
- Starting up is like farting, if you force it, it’s probably shit.
- Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
- Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
- Most startups eventually pivot to adjust to what the market is telling them.