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

Similar Max Levchin quotes:
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- In one minute you can change your attitude and in that minute you can change your entire day.
- Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
- Entrepreneurs don´t play safe, they play good.
- An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.
- The problems were never going to stop, I realized, but for the moment we had more momentum than problems.
- Without vision, there is no victory.
- Keep our competitors focused on us, while we stay focused on the customer.
- The secret to successful entrepreneurship is to couple your passion with strategy, and your drive with patience.
- The origin of innovation and entrepreneurship is a creative mindset
- In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.
- It’s very important to like the people you work with, otherwise life [and] your job is gonna be quite miserable.
- S.T.O.P. = Start To Open Possibilities
- QUIT = Quickly Uphold Important Things
- Success inspired confidence; confidence produced success.
- It is remarkable how many things you can explode. I’m lucky I have all my fingers.
- Difficulties come not to obstruct, but to instruct.
- If you try to be everything to everyone, you become nothing.
- Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
- To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.