If failure isn't an option, then success isn't either. Success is just failure repeated until it works.

Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.

Sooner or later, the ones who told you that this isn't the way it's done, the ones who found time to sneer, they will find someone else to hassle. Sooner or later, they stop pointing out how much hubris you've got, how you're not entitled to make a new thing, how you will certainly come to regret your choices. Sooner or later, your work speaks for itself. Outlasting the critics feels like it will take a very long time, but you're more patient than they are.

Entertainment has seduced us into believing that we have a chance to live the life they live in the movies. Even the people in the movies don't live that life. It doesn't take 135 minutes to make a life, it takes almost a century. Everything doesn't depend on what happens in the next ninety seconds. Ever.

It's never too late to start heading in the right direction.

One way to think about running a successful business is to figure out what the least you can do is, and do that.

Effort is its own reward if you allow it to be.