You can't please everyone, so proudly exclude people.

Are you helping people? Are they happy? Are you happy? Are you profitable? Isn't that enough?

If it's not a hit, switch.

I realized why I need to start a new company. Not for the money. Not because I'm 'bored'. But because a company is a laboratory to try your ideas.

If you want to be useful, you can always start now. It will be a humble prototype of your grand vision, but you’ll be in the game. Start by teaching someone this week. Starting small puts 100% of your energy into solving real problems for real people.

Learning. It's really the primary reason behind everything I do. Programming, entrepreneuring, writing.

It was the first follower that transformed the lone nut into a leader.