Blake Scholl Quotes

If you want to go to a restaurant, you get reservations. If you don’t want to go, you have reservations.

Entrepreneurs should have high tolerance for pain and low tolerance for annoyance. Much opportunity lies in solving what others find annoying—and much pain must be tolerated on the path to success.

Why was the cucumber feeling salty?

He was in a pickle.

If you insert enough socialism in capitalism but keep calling it capitalism, people get fed up with the problems socialism causes but blame capitalism and then turn socialist.

One of the more insane things about the aerospace industry is the habit of price escalation clauses in long term contracts. The norm is to expect costs to rise faster than inflation.

It's like planning to gradually suck a little bit more every year.

It’s easy to think that once you’ve said “thanks” the appreciation box is checked. But gratitude is like love: you don’t say it once at the wedding and call it done. You repeat it every day.

I’ve found curtain dealers can be kinda shady.

Few realize how much the world around us can be improved. Most things could be better—usually significantly better.

Part of becoming an entrepreneur is learning to see “not good enough” everywhere.

Pro tip: if you are ambitious and driven you will always work hard. So work on the biggest idea you can imagine. The effort is the same but the rewards are much, much better.

PS my first company was a barcode scanning game.

Price and cost are different things, often confused.

Cost is what it takes to make something. Price is what it sells for—at a point in time. When supplies are low, costs can be low but prices high. Confuse these concepts—and you’ll miss many opportunities

Best way to get done a day earlier is to start a day sooner

Startup advice: work on the biggest problem others have ignored.

Skeptics: I’ll believe it when I see it
Builders: I believe it, so I’ll make it

Don’t let anyone—most importantly yourself—tell you what you can’t do

I started Boom knowing literally zero people in aerospace. Networks are built naturally when doing something interesting—they are not a precondition.