"Every entrepreneur faces trade-offs when founding and growing their company. As we discovered at YouTube, those early decisions have far-reaching impacts and lead to unforeseen pitfalls down the road. Noam Wasserman uses vivid anecdotes and deep research to expertly outline the key early choices that define a startup, making The Founder's Dilemmas an invaluable alternative to real-world trial and error."

-- Chad Hurley

#Real Quotes #Impact Quotes #Errors Quotes

“Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, itâ€™s not clear that he ever really did.”

Source : Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.141, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Master the web and you will master your universe - and your (on-line) bank account.”
“To be quite honest, along with thinking and such when it comes to writing, I'm not into words like "theory." I'm a PhD dropout. No matter how many twenty-five-page papers I wrote, I never felt like I was saying much. I didn't feel like the writer of the book, whose work I was analyzing, would have been impressed. It didn't matter how much time or effort I put in.”
“A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.”
“And to tell the truth I don't want to let go of the wrists of idleness, I don't want to sell my life for money, I don't even want to come in out of the rain.”
“Gough, of course, would have loved to speak today but the rules of the game have disqualified him.”
“I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.”
“If you want to know a country, read its writers.”

Source : "Survival instincts" by Aminatta Forna, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.

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