profit in a business is like gas in a car. You don’t want to run out of gas, but neither do you want to think that your road trip is a tour of gas stations. - http://hitenshah.name/post...
Worrying is not a useful output. Worrying doesn’t change outcomes. Worrying ruins your day. Worrying distracts you from the work at hand. You may have fooled yourself into thinking that it’s useful or unavoidable, but it’s not. Now you’ve got one more thing to worry about. - http://hitenshah.name/post...
Sometimes an entrepreneur just needs to know you actually believe in them to keep their morale up during the tough times. - http://hitenshah.name/post...
Some VCs and other directors also tend to present good-intended advice. But do so by talking about themselves and their experiences. Again. And again. - http://hitenshah.name/post...
I always felt to run a good company you had to have room for everybody — you could always figure out a way to make room for smart people. - http://hitenshah.name/post...
All the mental energy that you use to elaborate your misery would be far better used trying to find the one, seemingly impossible way out of your current mess. It’s best to spend zero time on what you could have done and all of your time on what you might do. Because in the end, nobody cares, just run your company. - http://hitenshah.name/post...
I might argue that Jobs is the first truly transformative figure to die in an age of transformative technology. He’s someone who will be talked about a thousand years from now. And the fact that he was transformative in technology just compounds the reactions to his death right now. - http://hitenshah.name/post...
startupquote:
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.
- Steve Jobs
(Steve Jobs Special Issue #1) - http://hitenshah.name/post...
One of the best pieces of advice I ever got, back when I was 23 and newly out of school, is this: look around and figure out who you want to be on your team. Figure out the people around you that you want to work with for the rest of your life. Figure out the people who are smart & awesome, who share your values, who get things done — and maybe... - http://hitenshah.name/post...