It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Similar Herman Melville quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- Success is doing what you were created by God to do and being faithful in that.
- If you don’t know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?
- The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
- The bond built in sorrow is stronger the friendship natured in success.
- To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.
- Where there’s a WALL, there’s a WAY.
- Entrepreneurs don’t ask for permission. They act per a mission.
- A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.
- Some people have the courage to bungee jump or even skydive, yet they lack the courage to work for themselves.
- Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.
- To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it’s going to work, it’s not an experiment.
- Happy people produce. Bored people consume.
- Lesson learned – in doing business, do not COMPETE but be COMPETITIVE.
- An idea is nothing until it has its believers and followers.
- Taking risk will have its consequences, so does not taking any risk.
- Success inspired confidence; confidence produced success.
- Entrepreneur, if your distinction isn’t angering the mediocre, it’s actually mediocre.
- life is a continous journey of transformation
- Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
- The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.