Customers will not come just because you build it. You have to make that happen and it’s harder than it looks. —Peter Thiel
Con cada ambición y meta que tenemos, ya sean grandes o pequeñas, el ego está ahí, socavando nuestra fuerza a lo largo del viaje que nos hemos propuesto realizar.
Certain things in life will cut you open like a knife. When that happens—at that exposing moment—the world gets a glimpse of what’s truly inside you. So what will be revealed when you’re sliced open b...
But that’s the nice thing about lawyers: as long as you’re paying them, they’re usually good with whatever terms go along with it. Compartmentalization is their job. It’s how they represent people who...
Ben Horowitz: There is no silver bullet. . . . No, we’re going to have to use a lot of lead bullets.
BE RUTHLESS TO THE THINGS THAT DON’T MATTER How many have laid waste to your life when you weren’t aware of what you were losing, how much was wasted in pointless grief, foolish joy, greedy desire, an...
Attach yourself to people and organizations who are already successful and subsume your identity into theirs and move both forward simultaneously.
As James Basford remarked, It requires a strong constitution to withstand repeated attacks of prosperity. Well, that’s where we are now.
As Goethe once observed, the great failing is to see yourself as more than you are and to value yourself at less than your true worth.
As Deng Xiaoping once said, I don’t care if the cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice. The Stoics had their own reminder: Don’t go expecting Plato’s Republic.
And that’s what is so insidious about talk. Anyone can talk about himself or herself. Even a child knows how to gossip and chatter. Most people are decent at hype and sales. So what is scarce and rare...
An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before. To them, the idea that no one has ever done this or that is a good thing. When given an unfair...
Almost without exception, this is what life does: it takes our plans and dashes them to pieces. Sometimes once, sometimes lots of times.
All of us waste precious life doing things we don’t like, to prove ourselves to people we don’t respect, and to get things we don’t want.
All of us waste precious life doing things we don’t like, to prove ourselves to people we don’t respect, and to get things we don’t want. Why
All of us regularly say yes unthinkingly, or out of vague attraction, or out of greed or vanity. Because we can’t say no—because we might miss out on something if we did. We think yes will let us acco...
Advertising is just a slightly more scalable form of creating demand than door-to-door sales.
Adversity can harden you. Or it can loosen you up and make you better—if you let it.
Action is commonplace, right action is not. As a discipline, it’s not any kind of action that will do, but directed action. Everything must be done in the service of the whole. Step by step, action by...
Accept only what is true. 2. Work for the common good. 3. Match our needs and wants with what is in our control. 4. Embrace what nature has in store for us.