So, what is your favorite startup related quote?
Ask YC: what is your favorite startup related quote?
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#2'Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!' - Andrew Carnegie
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#3Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
- Robert Frost
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#4Do, or do not. There is no try.
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#5Do, or do not. There is no try.
+1... by Jedi Master Yoda.
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#6If you have two choices, choose the harder.
--Paul Graham in http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
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#7Shakespeare' quote:"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we might oft win, by fearing to attempt."
From: What They Don’t Tell You About Being An Entrepreneur ( http://how2livelife.blogspot.com/2008/03/what-they-dont-tell... )
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#8Whether it is urban legend or not is still an open question but this ad, supposedly placed by Ernest Shackleton in London newspapers
before one of his expeditions, sums up a startup nicely:
"MEN WANTED FOR HAZARDOUS JOURNEY. SMALL WAGES, BITTER COLD, LONG MONTHS OF COMPLETE DARKNESS, CONSTANT DANGER, SAFE RETURN DOUBTFUL. HONOR AND RECOGNITION IN CASE OF SUCCESS."
Cheers
Jason
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#9"Almost there"
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#10Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein