How I Built This: The Unexpected Paths to Success from the World's Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs

by Guy Raz

Why is it that so many of us are so bad at differentiating between things that terrify us and things that present a real hazard?

Failing is scary. Wasting your life is dangerous.

Having a fallback plan does not mean you are building an escape hatch from your dream. It’s not an excuse not to try hard, nor is it a ready-made reason to quit. It just means you’ve given yourself a cushion at the bottom of your entrepreneurial leap of faith so that if you do crash, you can bounce back to fight another day.

“Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.”*

More specifically, bootstrapping is using what you have at your disposal to get yourself where you want to be.

Luck, when it comes right down to it, is really just an opportunity waiting to be taken advantage of,