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Economically, you can think of a startup as a way to compress your whole working life into a few years. Instead of working at a low intensity for forty years, you work as hard as you possibly can for four.
Hackers & Painters - Big Ideas From the Computer Age
Paul Graham
To men immersed day and night in these meditations comes understanding of the truth pronounced by the god at Delphi, that the mind should know itself; and there comes also the perception of its union with the divine mind, the source of its inexhaustible joy
On the Good Life
Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you run a business, you must recognize that no amount of formal
planning can anticipate such changes. Does that mean you shouldn't plan?
Not at all. You need to plan the way a fire department plans: It cannot
anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and
efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as
to any ordinary event. Understanding the nature of strategic inflection
points and what to do about them will help you safeguard your company'
well-being. It is your responsibility to guide your company out of harm's
way and to place it in a position where it can prosper in the new order.
Nobody else can do this but you.
Only the Paranoid Survive
Andrew S. Grove
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