The Last Lecture

by Randy Pausch

“When you’re screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they’ve given up on you.”

EXPERIENCE IS what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.

Start-up companies often prefer to hire a chief executive with a failed start-up in his or her background. The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.