One quality of entrepreneurship is just persistence, not giving up because you have road blocks and also not giving in because other people tell you that you're nuts. You are nuts and you should be proud of it. Stick with what you believe in.
Trip HawkinsWe'll look at the japanese launch as a model and aspire to have things go as well as they did over there.
Trip HawkinsBut any big change is more likely to result if there is a disruptive event such as new technologies or platforms that have a surprising effect on market share.
Trip HawkinsYou have to have the kind of personality where you're resilient and you can get up and keep moving and learn what there is. What I tell my employees is, 'I want you to make mistakes. If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying hard enough. But, when we make a mistake, let's all study it. Let's all learn from it. After that, we want to make different mistakes. We don't want to keep making the same mistakes.'
Trip Hawkins