“pessimism works because it’s self-fulfilling: if you’re a slacker with low expectations, they’ll probably be met.”
― Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
― Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
“What you achieve is a function of what you think you can.’1”
― The Winning Way
― The Winning Way
“Success becomes a blanket that covers up weaknesses. You don’t see them growing until one fine day, the blanket is ripped off to reveal reality.”
― The Winning Way
― The Winning Way
“Forget “minimum viable products”—ever since he started Apple in 1976, Jobs saw that you can change the world through careful planning, not by listening to focus group feedback or copying others’ successes.”
― Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
― Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
“They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains,”
― Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection
― Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection
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