Pankaj Goyal > Quotes

“Bronnie Ware is an Australian nurse who spent several years working in palliative care, caring for patients in the last twelve weeks of their lives. She revealed the most common regrets of her patients in the best-selling book “The Top Five Regrets of the Dying—A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing” (Ware). Here were the regrets, starting at #2: 2.I wish I didn’t work so hard. 3.I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings. 4.I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends. 5.I wish that I had let myself be happier.”
― Pankaj Goyal, Before You Start Up: How to Prepare to Make Your Startup Dream a Reality

“You always feel that you are not being fast enough. There is always something that can be done better, can be done faster.”
― Pankaj Goyal, Before You Start Up: How to Prepare to Make Your Startup Dream a Reality

“Often, the problem is real for a small set of customers, but irrelevant for a broader customer base.”
― Pankaj Goyal, Before You Start Up: How to Prepare to Make Your Startup Dream a Reality

“Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn, said about startups, “You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down”.”
― Pankaj Goyal, Before You Start Up: How to Prepare to Make Your Startup Dream a Reality

“for every one success story in the news, there were nine failed ones that nobody talked about.”
― Pankaj Goyal, Before You Start Up: How to Prepare to Make Your Startup Dream a Reality

“work expands to fill the time available for its completion.”
― Pankaj Goyal, Before You Start Up: How to Prepare to Make Your Startup Dream a Reality

“There is a 90% chance that you will fail. Accept this fact and work with it.”
― Pankaj Goyal, Before You Start Up: How to Prepare to Make Your Startup Dream a Reality

“You prepare for your cricket match, for your examinations, for your hiking trip, for your love proposal, even for your food—why make an exception when it comes to chasing the biggest dream of your life?”
― Pankaj Goyal, Before You Start Up: How to Prepare to Make Your Startup Dream a Reality

“It’s perfectly OKAY to be driven by money—greed is good. If you are looking for money, be very clear about it in your head. Do not confuse yourself by looking for a “big” or “cool” problem to solve. You are an opportunist, not a solution seeker. If a silly app sending cute cat pics every hour has the potential to make you thousands or millions, that’s what you should be working on!”
― Pankaj Goyal, Before You Start Up: How to Prepare to Make Your Startup Dream a Reality

“If I give you twenty-four hours to complete a job, you will finish it in 24 hours with decent quality. If I give you a week, you will likely “plan” for six days and still finish the job in the last twenty-four hours.”
― Pankaj Goyal, Before You Start Up: How to Prepare to Make Your Startup Dream a Reality