I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. — HERBERT BAYARD SWO… - Josh Kaufman

When creating your list of MITs, it’s useful to ask a Self-Elicitation question: “What are the two or three most important things that I need to do today? What are the things that — if I got them done today — would make a huge difference?” Write only those tasks on your MIT list, then try to get them done first thing in the morning.

Market matters most. And neither a stellar team nor a fantastic product will redeem a bad market. . . . Markets that don’t exist don’t care how smart you are. — MARC ANDREESSEN, VENTURE CAPITALIST AND COFOUNDER OF NETSCAPE

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.