We're like _____ for _______. (comparison quote that almost guarantees failure)
I think this is a good way to describe startups.
Ask YC: what is your favorite startup related quote?
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#42"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at be…
That's way too long and that makes it harder to remember.
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#43Consistency, not novelty, is the key to success - John Berardi
Shove the sun aside - Dave Weiner
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#44I didn't realise this was a pg quote until I Googled it:
"If you want to win in a software business, just take on the hardest problem you can find, use the most powerful language you can get, and wait for your competitors' pointy-haired bosses to revert to the mean."
I've seen enough PHBs around software to know you won't be waiting long.
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#45"Anything you can conceive and believe, you can achieve" - anonymous
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#46"In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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#48"Read Paul Graham"
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#49When the winds of change are blowing some people are building shelters, and others are building wind mills.
- Chinese proverb
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#50not a quote, but i like the poem "if" by rudyard kipling. it kind of describes the sort of evenness and perseverance that is required of an entrepreneur... http://www.swarthmore.edu/~apreset1/docs/if.html
>If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
...utter brilliance there. It's amazing how the poems I thought were cute in high school ring so true now that I'm in my 30's.