"When people ask me, “How do you know which companies and services are going to be the biggest successes?”, I usually tell them to look for the companies and services that are mocked and misunderstood. For some reason, that correlates highly with the biggest breakout successes."
http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/12/mocked-and-misunderstood.html
"Fortunately, as I’ve mentioned before, I have a strong feeling that I will die young without artifact. That I will make no lasting impression. This will be my avenue. So hold your horses, I just have a few more things to do in life and I’m sure I’ll be out of your hair."
"Success is failure after failure without loss of enthusiasm."
Winston Churchill
"It is one thing to read about the world, but quite another to see
and hear for oneself."
Mary Travers
Costa Concordia coastguard rejects ‘hero’ label
Cruise liner hits rocks off coast of Italy. Captain is the first to bail. Italian coast guard officer orders him to get back on the boat and help the rescue efforts:
“Captain,” said De Falco at one point. “This is an order. Now I am in command. You have declared the abandoning of a ship and are going to co-ordinate the rescue from the bridge,” adding, “What do you want to do? Go home?”
(Source: Guardian)
"Run when you can. Walk when you must. Crawl if you have to. Just never give up ."
Dean Karnazes
"Luck is the dividend of hard work."
Anon
"It’s funny, everyone asks me, ‘Do you regret what you did?’ And the answer is, fuck no. I mean, I think of myself as an entrepreneur, and I went about some of that the wrong way. But I’ve done more at twenty-two than most people do their whole lives. I partied my ass off. There were so many women. I smoked so much weed. Anyone says they regret that, they’re full of shit. They’re saying that to please other people. I don’t care. I had a blast."
Ben Scozzaro (Accomplice to “Kid Cannabis”)
(Source: holysmoke.ca)
"No matter how good or bad you feel, it won’t last."
Selene Yeager
"I am so glad that you are here… It helps me realize how beautiful my world is."
Goethe (or Rainer Maria Rilke)
