“Nolan Bushnell, the co-founder of Atari, once said something that has always resonated with me. “Everyone who has taken a shower has had an idea,” he said. “But it’s the people who get out of the shower, towel off, and do something about it that make the difference.”
― That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea
― That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea
“I walked up to Griz and poked him in the chest. "Let me make this perfectly clear to you. Though some might seek to make it appear otherwise, I am not a bride to be bartered away to another kingdom, not a prize of war, not a mouthpiece for your Komizar. I am not a chip in a card game to be mindlessly tossed into the center of the pot, nor one to be kept in the tight fist of a greedy opponent. I am a player seated at the table alongside everyone else, and from this day forward, I will play my own hand as I see fit. Do you understand me? Because the consequences could be ugly if someone thought otherwise.”
― The Heart of Betrayal
― The Heart of Betrayal
“You see, a startup is a lonely place. You are working on something that no one believes in, that you’ve been told time and time again will never work. It’s you against the world. But the reality is that you can’t really do it on your own. You need to enlist help. Bring others around to your way of thinking. Let them share in your enthusiasm.”
― That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea
― That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea
“As you get older, if you’re at all self-aware, you learn two important things about yourself: what you like, and what you’re good at. Anyone who gets to spend his day doing both of those things is a lucky man.”
― That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea
― That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea
“you're going to get things wrong. you just don't want to get the same things wrong twice.”
― That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea
― That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea
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