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 :
- The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
- Your mental energy links to your physical energy. Without it, your mind will suffer.
- Life is tough, but you are tougher.
- What’s dangerous is not to evolve, not to invent, not to improve the customer experience.
- Dreams remain dreams until we decide to act upon them.
- Give your idea a chance. You’ll never hit a home run if you don’t swing.
- Work hard, have fun, and make history.
- You can truly have it all, just not all at the same time.
- Sometimes life’s going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.
- Don’t buy value-added. Be the one adding value. Create goodwill.
- Seek advice on taking risk from a capitalist and not from a gambler.
- To rise you must first fall.
- Customers don’t know what they want until we’ve shown them.
- The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.
- People are least interested in your plans and strategies, they are interested in results.
- Creators always have an advantage because they make the stuff we consume.
- Innovation is the ability to see the change as an opportunity; not a threat.
- Leveraging existing resources is innovation’s sweetest play.
- Better to fail on your own terms than succeed on someone else’s.
- Without business skills, your passion or hobby will not translate into money in your pocket.