Quotes about Growth

Yes, He could have. He could let us go through all of our life, bundlin' us and shelterin' us from anything and everything that would hurt us. I could do that with my petunias, Josh. I could build a box around them and keep them from the wind and the rain, the crawlers and the bees. What would happen iffen I did that, Josh?" I jest shrugged. The answer was too obvious. "They'd never bear flowers," said Auntie Lou.

Decisions are progress. Each one you make is a brick in your foundation. You can't build on top of "We'll decide later," but you can build on top of

If you want to make a product better, you have to keep tweaking, revising, and iterating. The same thing is true with a company.

In this world very few leaps of progress arrive exclusively as benefits

As a manager, you have to accept the fact that people will make mistakes, but not intentionally, and that mistakes are the price of learning and self-sufficiency.

Scaring away new customers is worse than losing old customers.

Too much time in academia can actually do you harm. There are a lot of skills that are useful in academia that aren't worth much outside of it.

Start a business, not a startup.

Failure is not a prerequisite for success.

The right time to hire is when there's more work than you can handle for a sustained period of time.

But after that, the curve flattens out. There's surprisingly little difference between a candidate with six months of experience and one with six years. The real difference comes from the individual's dedication, personality, and intelligence.

Evolution doesn't linger on past failures, it's always building upon what worked. So should you.