T. S. Eliot Quotes

Risk is an essential part of progress.

The only rollercoasters I get on are startups.

Much of the excitement we get out of our work is that we don't really know what we are doing.

'Gonzo' means taking an unknown thing to an unknown place for a known purpose. But sometimes we're lost in an unknown place for no known purpose.

Launching a business is essentially an adventure in problem-solving.

In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow your feeling even at the risk of going wrong.

Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.

In a startup, both the problem and solution are unknown.

To be an inventor, you have to be willing to live with a sense of uncertainty, to work in this darkness and grope towards an answer, to put up with anxiety about whether there is an answer.

Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it opens before hitting the ground.

Writing is like building a bridge while you're on it. If you step forward you fall off and there's nothing in front of you.

Founders: there is no shame in failing, take pride in that you have the guts to try something new.

Everybody wants to make something they think is a surefire winner, though nobody knows what a surefire winner is, in my opinion.

Securities, certitudes and peace do not lead to discoveries.

I've always had a feeling that any time you can experiment, you ought to do it. Because you never know what will happen.

You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

If you don't know what makes green, you're going to try every color combination.

I'm not afraid to take chances or go off on my own.

If every effect of any new products or methods were required to be known before they could be produced and marketed, they would not be true innovations - and thus not represent new knowledge of what people would like, if offered.

Everything I do now is a first.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

You've gotta dive into the abyss if you wanna get anything good. Every record, you've gotta go down in the abyss and hope that you come out of it alive.

I like the unknown. I like mystery.