Quotes
Look, kiddie. I built this business by being a bastard. I run it by being a bastard. I’ll always be a bastard, and don’t you ever try to change me.
Charles Revson to a senior executive in the company [Added 17/Apr/2014]
Empowerment is what you are given. Self-leadership is what you do with it.
The One Minute Manager [Added 11/Apr/2014]
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
Ben Horowitz [Added 7/Apr/2014]
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time
T.S.Eliot [Added 4/Apr/2014]
Simplicity is a state of enlightenment that you reach after many years of battling with complexity
[Added 27/Feb/2014]
Advertising is the price you pay for being unoriginal
[Added 20/Feb/2014]
My candle burns at both ends. It will not last the night. But ah my foes and ah my friends. It gives a lovely light.
Roald Dahl [Added 28/Jan/2014]
Those who don’t believe in magic, will never find it
[Added 17/Jan/2014]
If you don’t raise the bar in whatever you do in life you may as well be dead
[Added 4/Jan/2014]
I don’t seek risk, but it seems that risk does a pretty good job at seeking me
[Added 15/Dec/2013]
As long as you add more to this world than you take from it, you are successful
[Added 30/Nov/2013]
Is not how fast you process thoughts (aka ‘intelligence’). It’s WHAT thoughts you process.
[Added 27/Nov/2013]
It’s easier to get the bee to the flower than the flower to the bee
[Added 26/Nov/2013]
Your job as a manager is to carry a watering can in one hand and fertilizer in the other. Pour it over the seeds and watch the seeds grow. Now, you’re gonna get some weeds. So you gotta cut the damn things out to improve the garden.
Jack Welch [Added 19/Nov/2013]
I dig in, roll up my cuffs, get my fingers burnt, fall to ashes, then I stand up, roll up my cuffs, dig in a little further till I find a spark, I nurture it, I follow it relentlessly until it lights a fire. I follow the fire, with it I tear down walls, I question, doubt and prove myself wrong, I feel the burn again but I am fearless, for by now I know – I am nothing but its aftermath.
[Added 19/Nov/2013]
You want to avoid things going wrong? Stay in bed!
Me [Added 14/Nov/2013]
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse
Rudyard Kipling [Added 11/Nov/2013]
The greatest risk in life is taking no risks
[Added 11/Nov/2013]
I’ll consider myself lucky if in my life I will have met a few really smart people, a handful who are truly creative, and just one who is both
[Added 15/Oct/2013]
It’s much better to be the small fish in the big pond than the big fish in the small pond
A beautiful bottle of Montabello. Always brings out the poet in me. [Added 08/Oct/2013]
You can’t win a fight with a measuring tape
Great post on the dangerous seduction of the lifetime value (LTV formula) by Bill Gurley. A must read by every marketer and entrepreneur who obsesses on performance marketing as the be-all-end-all [Added 20/Aug/2013]
Everything begins with a question. Then follows imagination. Then logic.
[Added 05/Aug/2013]
Start by living in the future. Then build towards it, one step at a time.
[Added 01/Aug/2013]
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary
Pablo Picasso [Added 25/Jul/2013]
When the dick and the ass argue on who is more senior the ass always wins because it gets more shit done
Me [Added 15/Jul/2013]
The older people want to know how it does what it does, the younger people want to know what it can do
Steve Jobs [Added 28/Jun/2013]
Building a startup is like chewing glass while staring into the abyss
Elon Musk [Added 27/Jun/2013]
In victory, we deserve champagne. And in defeat, we need it.
Napoleon [Added 05/May/2013]
Product is king, content is queen
[Added 24/Apr/2013]
Sometimes life is going to hit you on the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. What makes you who you are is what you do when you’re down.
[Added 11/Apr/2013]
If I had a clue how this industry worked I would not attempt to do what we’ve done. I was blissfully ignorant.
[Added 31/Mar/2013]
The people who really are doing things they believe in will keep doing them, and ye people who are just gold diggers will go away
Tim O’Reilly [Added 20/Jan/2013]
Leave the gun take the cannoli
[Added 07/Jan/2013]
He who can tell a bad story is a pessimist; he who can turn a bad story to a good one is an optimist; he who can turn a bad story to a great one is an entrepreneur.
(and he who can’t tell a story is a loser) [Added 27/Nov/2012]
You should invest in a business that even a fool can run, because someday a fool will
Warren Buffet. Quote of the day. [Added 25/Nov/2012]
Deciding what to do is easy. The hard bit is deciding what NOT to do. And that’s what makes all the difference.
[Added 17/Nov/2012]
Great ideas come and go. Great businesses don’t.
[Added 15/Nov/2012]
When great people get together, with the same goal, magic happens
My dream last night [Added 11/Nov/2012]
I have seen firsthand that being President doesn’t change who you are—it reveals who you are
Michelle Obama, Love and Presidents: The Difference Between Michelle and Ann - The New Yorker (via fred-wilson) [Added 06/Sep/2012]
There is only room for one asshole in this company, and I’m sorry to tell you that has to be me!
[Added 20/Aug/2012]
What was bricks n mortar, will be hourlies and water
[Added 23/Jul/2012]
Once I was blind but now I can see
[Added 10/Jul/2012]
I’m not crazy about reality, but it’s still the only place to get a decent meal
Groucho Marx [Added 09/Jul/2012]
If twitter is citizen journalist, PPH is citizen entrepreneur
[Added 28/Jun/2012]
You can take a horse to water but you can’t make it drink
[Added 14/Jun/2012]
Great things happen when you realise your true potential and the impact it can have on the world
[Added 04/Jun/2012]
We had the experience but we missed the meaning
T.S.Eliot [Added 31/May/2012]
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory; tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat
Sun Tzu [Added 28/May/2012]
