Quotes For Entrepreneurs–August 2010
Add comment August 31st, 2010
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“I don’t watch metrics on a daily basis because I don’t make metrics-based decisions on a daily basis”
Patrick Mackenzie
From “Back Office Exposed: Bingo Card Creator” an interview with Patrick Mackenzie
Q: Can you share the key metrics you watch on a daily basis? Why are they important to you?
A: I have published a variety of stats but I don’t watch metrics on a daily basis because I don’t make metrics-based decisions on a daily basis, and absent making decisions watching metrics is only as productive as playing WoW.
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“I used to think I had ambition…but now I’m not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They’re easily confused.”
Rachel Field
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“Late to bed, and late to rise, makes a man sick, poor, and stupid.”
Goodman Ace
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“No man is rich whose expenditure exceeds his means; and no one is poor whose income exceeds his outgoings.”
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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“The point of forecasting is not to attempt illusory certainty, but to identify the full range of possible outcomes.”
Paul Saffo
From his blog entry for July 26, 2008: “Strong Opinions, Weakly Held” I offered additional commentary in “Paul Saffo: Forecasting is Strong Opinions, Weakly Held” I am a big fan of Paul Saffo and have blogged about him in these posts:
- Paul Saffo: “Best Strategy is Ready Fire Steer”
- What Happens When 70 EDA Blogs Become 500 in 2011
- Another Perspective on Paul Saffo’s Talk Aug 28
- Paul Saffo on Forecasting Innovation in Silicon Valley
- Paul Saffo at Churchill Club Breakfast Tue Aug 28
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“The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.”
Paul Valery
I used this quote in a postscript to “Paul Saffo: Forecasting is Strong Opinions, Weakly Held” I thought that it neatly summarized the
“entrepreneur’s perpetual challenge: we have to let go of our nostalgia for our imagined (or anticipated) future and deal with the real options that we have created or are otherwise available to us.”
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“The only real training for leadership is leadership.”
Anthony Jay
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“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”
Heraclitus
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“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
Ursula K. LeGuin
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“I heartily accept the motto, ‘That government is best which governs least’; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.”
Henry David Thoreau “On Civil Disobedience“