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We delighted in forcing bigger, slower competitors to follow us over difficult ground. Like guerillas, startups prefer the difficult terrain of the mountains, where the troops of the central government can’t follow. I can remember times when we were just exhausted after wrestling all day with some horrible technical problem. And I’d be delighted, because something that was hard for us would be impossible for our competitors.

Hackers & Painters - Big Ideas From the Computer Age

Paul Graham

Human and animal foragers are constantly prioritizing and making effort-allocation decisions, even if only unconsciously. They concentrate first on favorite foods, or ones that yield the highest payoff. If these are unavailable, they shift to less and less preferred foods.

Jared M. Diamond - Guns, Germs and Steel

1999, W. W. Norton & Company

36 Wealth is a form of responsibility The greater the wealth, means the greater the responsibility. Only fools are pretentious because they are rich. Never let anyone with selfishness get a little benefit. (With a good conscience our only sure reward, in hour of maximum danger, we do not shrink from this responsibility, we welcome it.) November 20, 1907 Dear John: I am very happy that a financial crisis that almost caused a national crisis has finally passed! Now, I think our President, Theodore Roosevelt, can go to Louisiana to continue hunting with peace of mind, despite his surprising incompetence in this crisis. Of course, Mr. President did not do nothing. He supported Wall Street with “worries”. God! Our taxpayer was so blind that he sent such a New Yorker into the White House. Frankly speaking, the mention of Theodore Roosevelt’s name and everything he did to Standard Oil makes me indignant. He is the meanest and most vengeful villain I have ever seen.

The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to His Son: Perspectives, Ideology, and Wisdom

J. D. Rockefeller

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