Quotes for Entrepreneurs - May 2008

May 31st, 2008 Sean Murphy

Continuing my twitter experiment from April I try to select a good quote every couple of days that is applicable to the challenges of entrepreneurship. Here are my choices for May:

“Practice is the best of all instructors.”
Publilius Syrus

“You can’t hire someone to practice for you.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. see also his “21 Suggestions for Success”

“Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure.”
Sydney J. Harris

“Innovation is the first reduction to practice of an idea in a culture.”
James Brian Quinn in “Intelligent Enterprise: A Knowledge and Service Based Paradigm for Industry”

“The First Step Toward Getting Somewhere Is To Decide That You Are Not Going To Stay Where You Are.”
J. Pierpont Morgan

“Intelligence is defined by prediction. ”
Jeff Hawkins

“HTML is now the default document format: a WYSIWYG editor for it is long overdue”
Kevin Marks in “Misunderstanding the Innovator’s Dilemma”

“We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.”
Roy Amara  Note: also called “Amara’s Law” and often incorrectly attributed to Paul Saffo among others:

• So what exactly did Paul Saffo say and when did he say it?
• Improving on Quotage

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