If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.
If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

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Other Entrepreneurship :
- Delaying is the most dangerous thing you can do in business.
- Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
- Your comfort zone is not that comfortable.
- To be inefficient and effective is better than being efficient and ineffective.
- Entrepreneurs should always aim to play the long game. Instant gratification cannot build a legacy.
- Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
- Dreams remain dreams until we decide to act upon them.
- When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.
- It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
- One of the biggest mistakes we made was trying to automate things that are super easy for a person to do, but super hard for a robot to do.
- Success is making those who believed in you look brilliant.
- The field seems to require a painfully uncommon synthesis of imagination and realism.
- Live boldly now. Later may not be an option.
- If there was a way that I could not eat, so I could work more, I would not eat. I wish there was a way to get nutrients without sitting down for a meal.
- Negotiation means willfully entering into a professional conflict.
- People who say you will fail are people who have never been successful in their lives
- There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.
- I never fail. It’s just that the people around me succeed more than I.
- In the end, every startup is different. But in the beginning every startup is the same.
- No, I don’t ever give up. I’d have to be dead or completely incapacitated.