17 stories

Important quotes from thought leaders for makers, entrepreneurs, adventurers and seekers of truth





I'm a pirate that despises the navy and yet wants to be the navy. I need a boat. This captain's log is on how to build the proverbial pirate boat.






How do you manage your time? Does the company offer any special working hours for you as a master's student? Do they encourage or help financially?






You get as much as you negotiate. The non-negotiator will in the end become the victim.






What kind of tasks or skills make them so valuable? And how can you replicate their success?






Prune your past if you can. And don’t predict the future. Life is real only at this moment. The only thing keeping you from living here is you.






Entrepreneurship is the art of living; not by reading instructions, watching someone else, dreaming, modeling or planning. It’s to live as a painter.






A day inside the mind of an entrepreneur turning off autopilot: Worries pass in an hour. Regrets stay for life. And choices make sense in retrospect.






You don't get over the fear. You run towards it, with your knees buckling.






or Newton's law of universal job gravitation






How to fix the love between your product and customers, in a startup company.






You’re approaching your final college year not having interned at Facebook, Amazon or Google. Are you considered an idiot? Is your career doomed?






"Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better." Florence Nightingale, Founder of Nursing






After all the hard work I've been putting into my startup, I'm going broke. How can I sustain a full time commitment without income?






I am trying to push through with my startup. It feels hard. I feel like I have failed and must start over. Am I alone? Is founder depression normal?






Why some applicants who get rejected everywhere else get accepted to Google?






The first job is a chicken and egg problem. How can I get the first job that gives me experience, when the first job itself needs experience?




