The field seems to require a painfully uncommon synthesis of imagination and realism.
The field seems to require a painfully uncommon synthesis of imagination and realism.

Similar Alain de Botton quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- Successful companies are started, and made successful, by at least two, and usually more, soulmates.
- The sprint is like life. blink and you miss it.
- Sometimes we measure things and see that in the short term they actually hurt sales, and we do it anyway.
- Universal opinions are often mistaken for universal principles
- The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
- Start small and keep going.
- Life can be so easy once we stop trying so hard to complicate it.
- People who say you will fail are people who have never been successful in their lives
- The customer is always right.even when they’re wrong.
- Freedom is the foundation for all wonderful things in life.
- All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
- To leverage means to create a win-win situation.
- It’s not what you got, but what you gave.
- People are least interested in your plans and strategies, they are interested in results.
- Trying is failing with honor.
- Never expect to be known without doing some impossible work.
- Forest rangers see the forest differently. Likewise, entrepreneurs see the world differently.
- In the broadest context, the goal is to seek enlightenment however you define it.
- In business, what’s dangerous is not to evolve.
- There are no overnight success. It’s a combination of humility, sacrifices, tenacity, failure, and opportunity.