Quotes
Quotes and advice I keep coming back to.
Sam Altman, on the most underrated quality of successful people
The most underrated quality of all is being really determined. This is more important than being smart. This is more important than having a network. This is more important than a great idea. The hardest thing about starting a company is the level and the frequency of bad stuff that happens to you.
Most people that are really good in other ways eventually just get killed — the company gets killed by stuff going wrong. And so much about being a successful entrepreneur is just not giving up.
Paul Graham, on why you shouldn't try to be a visionary
Empirically, the way to do really big things seems to be to start with small things and grow them bigger.
The popular image of a visionary is someone with a very precise view of the future, but empirically it's probably better to have a blurry one.
Steve Jobs, on living your own life
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.
Stay hungry. Stay foolish.