Challenging Endeavors Quotes

Why shoot for the moon? It matters because when you try to do something radically hard, you approach the problem differently than when you try to make something incrementally better.

Starting a successful company is one of the hardest things anyone does.

In most fields of endeavor there are no easy jobs; there are only graceful ways of performing difficult ones.

I always liked to take on the middle pockets. They're much harder.

Startups are very hard no matter what you do; you may as well go after a big opportunity.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

We're looking for people who are working on things that seem out of reach, uncomfortably difficult.

Spaceflight, especially in the Mercury spacecraft, clearly wasn't going to be much like flying an airplane.

Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless you start from the top.

You're not supposed to do a television series that takes place in nine cities all over the globe. Everyone will tell you that that's undoable.