Daniel Isenberg > Quotes

“When I speak to potential entrepreneurs,” Davila reflects now, “I tell them, don’t expect that the sky’s going to open and a lightning bolt is going to hit you with the next Facebook idea. Those things are Haley’s comet—they come by once every hundred years. You don’t need to have that as entrepreneur. You just have to figure out something people need and find a way to execute it better than everyone else.”
― Daniel Isenberg, Worthless, Impossible and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value

“We aspire to what we think we can achieve, and what we think we can achieve is influenced by what we see others achieving.”
― Daniel Isenberg, Worthless, Impossible and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value

“Entrepreneurship is not about central tendencies; it is about extremes. Entrepreneurship is not about what is likely; it is about what is possible. It is not about ordinary; it is about extraordinary. The common denominator of all of these accessible entrepreneurs is their contrarian perception, creation, and capture of extraordinary value. It is their recognition, realization, and reaping of more value than anyone else (the market) could have anticipated.”
― Daniel Isenberg, Worthless, Impossible and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value

“You need incentive and fear of losing your shirt. If you don’t have that fear, you’re not being driven to enhance yourself on an ongoing basis.”
― Daniel Isenberg, Worthless, Impossible and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value

“To paraphrase Nobel laureate Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, entrepreneurship consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and doing what nobody has done.1”
― Daniel Isenberg, Worthless, Impossible and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value