Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.
We can’t be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.
The most important thing is not to let fundraising get you down. Startups live or die on morale. If you let the difficulty of raising money destroy your morale, it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
If your sole focus is money, you may create a successful startup. But if it’s impact, you can probably create history.
I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.
If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.
Starting your own business is like riding a roller coaster. There are highs and lows and every turn you take is another twist. The lows are really low, but the highs can be really high. You have to be strong, keep your stomach tight, and ride along with the roller coaster that you started.
Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.
Nothing works better than just improving your product.
When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for people telling you that you are nuts.
There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
You have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.
Frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.
If you build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
The time to go into a new business is when it’s badly run by others.
You can’t sleep. Broke people sleep. You got to be willing to sacrifice sleep, if you sleep you may miss the opportunity to be successful.
My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.
The brands that will thrive in the coming years are the ones that have a purpose beyond profit.
To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.