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“He was the guy who always won the game of chicken because his opponents suspected he might actually enjoy a head-on collision.”
― Michael Lewis, The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story

“..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.”
― Jessica Livingston, Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

“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.”
― Jessica Livingston

“The women discussed the details of their relationships, trying to reduce their problems to a single word. I had explained the importance of specificity, and the ladies clung to my words. The conversations were sad, and amusing, and strangely hopeful all at the same time. The relentlessness with which these women tried to repair their relationships was foreign to me; I didn't understand why they didn't simply give up.”
― Vanessa Diffenbaugh, The Language of Flowers