Inspiration

If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.

Peter Drucker

How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time!

Origin Unknown

If you want to seduce a beautiful woman, court her ugly sister.

Spanish proverb

By itself, genius can produce original thoughts just as little as a woman by herself can bear children. Outward circumstances must come to fructify genius, and be, as it were, a father to its progeny.

Arthur Schopenhauer, On Genius

Very few companies have died due to launching early; at worst, you’ll have a onetime product embarrassment (as Apple did with the first version of its iPhone Maps app). However, countless companies have died by losing the nerve to ship, and freezing into a coma of second-guessing, hesitation, and internal indecision. As in life, so in business: maintain a bias for action over inaction.

Antonio Garcia Martinez, Chaos Monkeys

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Edward Abbey, The Journey Home

If you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.

Steve Jobs

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. Michael Porter

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

Ben Franklin

“If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat. Just get on.” Sheryl Sandberg

I like pressure. Diamonds are made under pressure, and I definitely enjoy it.  Caroline Buchanan

When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. Goodhart Law

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks. Mortimer Adler

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken

There’s nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the agony of regret. Jim Rohn

It has struck me that all men’s misfortunes spring from the single cause that they are unable to stay quietly in one room.

Blaise Pascal