"First mover Advantage doesn't go to the company that starts up, it goes to the company that scales up"

-- Reid Hoffman

#Firsts Quotes #Advantage Quotes #Scales Quotes

“I asked them if it wasn't too much trouble, if I wasn't being too pushy, if they could execute what we were trying to do. And if it didn't make them too angry, if they also wanted to play some defense on the other end, that would be great.”
“Jesus is no longer one to be accepted or invited in but one who is infinitely worthy of our immediate and total surrender.”
“Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that aught begins or ceases to be; for nothing comes into being or is destroyed; but all is an aggregation or secretion of preexisting things; so that all becoming might more correctly be called becoming mixed, and all corruption, becoming separate.”

Source : "The History of Ancient Philosophy". Book by Heinrich Ritter, translared by Alexander James William Morrison, Volume 1, 1838.
“A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.”

Source : Millicent Fenwick (1948). “Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage”
“The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.”
“Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the beginners from experienced artists.”
“I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said 'There's no military solution to terrorism. If there were, Israel would be the safest place in the world. But there's no military solution.'”

Source : "Exclusive Interview: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip's Bradley Whitford". Interview with Travis Fickett, www.ign.com. September 22, 2006.
“Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.”

Source : Georg Simmel (2008). “Englischsprachige Veröffentlichungen: 1893 - 1910”

You may also like:

Ben Casnocha
Writer
Blake Ross
Software engineer
David Filo
Businessman
Jeff Weiner
Businessman
Max Levchin
Computer Scientist
Peter Thiel
Entrepreneur
Sam Altman
Chris Yeh
Author
David Sze
Venture capitalist