Building a startup is very much an endurance sport
Building a startup is very much an endurance sport

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- If you don’t learn to control your mind, your mind will control you.
- Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.
- There is no shortcut to success.
- The field seems to require a painfully uncommon synthesis of imagination and realism.
- I’m a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they’re simpler for customers.
- Complaining is not a strategy.You have to work with the world as you find it, not as you would have it be.
- The goal is to build a profitable business, not maintain an expensive hobby that will leave you in the poorhouse.
- Nothing is worse to an organisation than culture of fear
- Innovation is the ability to see the change as an opportunity; not a threat.
- To be inefficient and effective is better than being efficient and ineffective.
- Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?
- People who say you will fail are people who have never been successful in their lives
- People judge you on your performance, so focus on the outcome.
- Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.
- The more businesses you have, the less work you do.
- Hiding behind titles to create security is insecurity.
- Always deliver more than expected.
- To rise you must first fall.
- Selling is serving, helping others find solutions, impacting lives positively with passion and integrity.
- Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experiences that a year is a lifetime at Apple.