The goal - at least the way I think about entrepreneurship - is you realize one day that you can't really work anyone else. You have to start your won thing. It almost doesn't matter what the thing is. We had six different business plan changes, and then the last one was PayPal.If that one didn't work out, if we still had the money and the people, obviously we would not have given up. We would have iterated on the business model and done something else. I don't think there was ever clarity as to who we were until we knew it was working. By then, we'd figured out our PR pitch and told everyone what we do and who we are. But between the founding and the actual PayPal, it was just like this tug-of-war where it was like, "We're trying this, this week." Every week you go to investors and say, "We're doing this, exactly this. We're really focused. We're going to be huge." The next week you're like, "That was a lie. . Jessica Livingston
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
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The greatest solution of all is to live and work in partnership with yourself, your family and friends, your work and community, your nation, your world, nature, and spirit.
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Marc Allen
Blessed are the misfits who make their own rules and stick to them for they shall inherit peace of mind
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Chikamso C. Efobi
Building something that matters is a marathon, not a sprint.
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My decision isn't as important as the freedom to decide. And my income isn't as important as what I do to earn it.
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The really dramatic growth happens when a startup only has three of four people, so only three or four people see that, whereas tens of thousands see business as it's practiced by Boeing or Philip Morris.
..determination is the most important quality in a founder, open-mindedness and willingness to change your idea are key, and all startups face rejection at first.
The goal - at least the way I think about entrepreneurship - is you realize one day that you can't really work anyone else. You have to start your own thing. It almost doesn't matter what the thing is. We had six different business plan...
A lot of the machines that Google is built on–commodity is the polite word for them–they're regular PCs and so they're not always the most reliable.
Paul Buchheit: Then you have what we do with PCs, and that's technically pretty challenging–to take this big network of machines that are unreliable and build a big, reliable storage system out of it.
