You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do.
Jerry Garcia
You never feel 100% ready when the right opportunity arises
For example, dating sites currently suck … They all use the same simple-minded model. An undergrad could build something better as a class project. And yet there’s a lot of money at stake. Online dating is a valuable business now, and it might be worth a hundred times as much if it worked.
Paul Graham on Idea Generation
What matters is not ideas, but the people who have them. Good people can fix bad ideas, but good ideas can’t save bad people.
Paul Graham on Entrepreneurship
What do I mean by good people? … Someone who does what they do so well that they pass right through professional and cross over into obsessive
Paul Graham on Hiring
I may die as one, but I will come back in millions
Tupac Katari
Its hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower
Paul Graham
For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.
Paul Graham
It’s a gold rush and we’re selling the shovels.
Josh Williams
If everybody has a voice, then you end up with something average.
Jason Calacanis
Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don’t find one, it’s you.
Mark Cuban
Not having a clear goal leads to death by a thousand compromises.
Mark Pincus
If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.
Henry Ford
To be successful, you have to have quantity of quality.
Mark Frauenfelder, co-founder of Boing Boing
People capable of making enough money to never work again are the same people who will never quit working.
Chris Dixon
