"I would tell startups to just keep your head down, keep building. Your contingency plan, if you have one, should be because you are still spending more than you make and you still don't have a line of sight for that J curve. That is the most important contingency. Because otherwise you are betraying that equation to your cofounders, to your investors, to your employees and to your customers."

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Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com

Chamath Palihapitiya

#Important Quotes #Building Quotes #Employee Quotes

“The guys who stick around are the smartest guys and the guys who are the most self-driven. You have to have drive. The coaches can only take you so far. You have to want to learn and work.”
“The World Cup is a truly international event.”
“Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.”
“I see only my objective - the obstacles must give way.”
“I've been a political junkie for a long time. I find the way Washington works is just fascinating to me.”

Source : "Actor-director-producer Tony Goldwyn". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 6, 2013.
“In your life there's peaks and valleys and sometimes we regress, and we don't even know we regress. You just have to learn how to accept all of your mistakes and learn to love yourself again.”

Source : FaceBook post by Mary J. Blige from Jan 30, 2013
“The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations”
“At some point in your life, this statement will be true: tomorrow you will lose everything forever.”

Source : Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Enhanced Edition): A Novel”, p.206, Knopf

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