Justin Kan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

My entire career has been pivoting from company to company. Some people call it lack of planning or direction, I call it flexibility and good improvisational skills.
-- Justin Kan

#Smart #Skills #Careers
I try to work the hardest I can without burning myself out.
-- Justin Kan

#Trying #Burning #Hardest
I find it hard to manage somebody's work unless I have an intimate knowledge of how to do it myself.
-- Justin Kan

#Intimate #Manage
I try to keep the meetings small, especially when we're doing product design.
-- Justin Kan

#Design #Trying #Meetings
Start-ups don't die, they commit suicide.
-- Justin Kan

#Suicide #Commit
Remember, everything you are building today will be killed or iterated. The former is more likely than the latter. Great products are created by many incremental improvements.
-- Justin Kan

#Today #Improvement #Remember
My advice is flip a coin. If you regret the way it landed, then go with your gut.
-- Justin Kan

#Regret #Advice #Coins
You need to just get started. If you never get started, you'll never be successful.
-- Justin Kan

#Successful #Needs #Execution
Many many external circumstances are outside of your control, but will affect the outcome, and you have to be OK with that.
-- Justin Kan

#Outcomes #Circumstances

When you have success on the field, you're more popular and you have that fame that comes with it. You realize you're in the public eye more and you've got to be a little bit more careful about some of the things you're doing out in public and make sure you're smart about the things you say. You're still going to make mistakes from time to time, but you represent an even greater population and people are that much more looking for you to be in the wrong place at the wrong time or fall down or say something really stupid that's going to get you in trouble.
People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'
Shakespeare was a smart dude. He was the president of Rome.
Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.
The art of decoration requires the most sophisticated and self-indulgent skills. Its aim has always been to sate the senses as gloriously as possible. ... ornament is not only a source of sensuous pleasure; it supplies a necessary kind of magic to people and places that lack it. More than just a dread of empty spaces has led to the urge to decorate; it is the fear of empty selves.
When it came down to technical skill and ability of the two teams, Croatia were far superior.
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
Stay focused. You gotta believe in yourself. I think that's the biggest thing I've been able to do throughout my whole career, even before I actually had a big career in this industry.

Justin Kan famous quotes

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