The most counterintuitive thing I've learned is that the companies that are most successful are the ones where the founder has figured out that their job is not to have the answers — their job is to build the system that produces the answers. And that's a fundamentally different orientation than most founders have, especially in the early days.
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I asked him how he's able to do that in front of everyone last night. He said really such an enchanting thing. Instead of sitting there and trying to tell someone else, 'No, no, it goes like this. No, no, do it like this,' you just do it yourself and then you know the way the song goes. You know what the drum part's supposed to be, what kind of groove you want. You're just beating yourself up to get it right.
Paul McCartney
Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough. The key is to make your mistakes quickly and cheaply, not slowly and expensively.
Jeff Bezos — Amazon All-Hands Meeting remarks, widely attributed
Because time is something we can measure and tenderness is not, we keep trying to ward off the singular sense of personal failure that the loss of love can bring by measuring the success of a relationship by quantity of time rather than quality of being, only to find ourselves on barren rock.
Maria Popova