"If the business were a play, Act One is: Woohoo, bright and bushy-tailed. We're going to make something great! Act Two is: We're six months behind on back-end development. We're trying to raise venture capital. We're trying to figure out what furniture we should sell to make payroll."

--

Source : "How We Did It: Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake, Co-founders, Flickr". Interview with Stewart Butterfield, www.inc.com. December 1, 2006.

Caterina Fake

#Business Quotes #Play Quotes #Two Quotes

“Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.”
“At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is "not done" to say it... Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals.”
“This love for everyday things, part natural from the wide eye of Infancy, part a literary calculation”
“Most suits made the man. Gideon did things to a three-piece suit that should've been illegal.”
“Probably, the nature of homophobia will never be widely interrogated, while we will continue to be excluded from school curricula, subjected to vicious media distortions, or entirely ignored, denied basic civil rights while our demands are ridiculed and derided. But in the midst of all this only one thing has changed for certain. We have changed. We will never go back into the closet.”
“An honest man is always a child.”
“If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.”

Source : "Keep the Faith". Text projections in the Duveen Gallery, Tate Britain, London, 2006.
“You can make money or you can make excuses. Your choice.”

You may also like:

Chad Hurley
Executive
Craig Newmark
Entrepreneur
David Filo
Businessman
Garrett Camp
Entrepreneur
Joshua Schachter
Max Levchin
Computer Scientist
Sandra Lerner
Stewart Butterfield
Vinton Cerf
Engineer