Jesse Curry > Jesse's Quotes

“When in doubt, simplify.”
― Eric Ries, The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

“Monetization logic is a simple “Yeah that makes sense” test that is often missing from people’s content marketing efforts.”
― Dan Norris, Content Machine: Use Content Marketing to Build a 7-figure Business With Zero Advertising

“If you take the lowest common denominator approach using cross platform stuff, you by definition create something that’s average.”
― Sean Ellis, Startup Growth Engines: Case Studies of How Today’s Most Successful Startups Unlock Extraordinary Growth

“Uber has taken what could be seen as a massive business hurdle—litigation—and turned it into an asset that drives growth.”
― Sean Ellis, Startup Growth Engines: Case Studies of How Today’s Most Successful Startups Unlock Extraordinary Growth

“There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.”
― Sun Tzu

“It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune; and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it. —Nathan Mayer Rothschild”
― Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor

“Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

“we suggest you go out and get a design team right off the bat—a group of people who will read the book with you and do the exercises alongside you, a collaborative team in which you support one another in your pursuit of a well-designed life.”
― Bill Burnett, Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.”
― Thomas Sowell

“While the idea of equal time for opposing opinions makes sense in a two-party political system, it does not work for science, because science is not about opinion. It is about evidence. It is about claims that can be, and have been, tested through scientific research—experiments, experience, and observation—research that is then subject to critical review by a jury of scientific peers. Claims that have not gone through that process—or have gone through it and failed—are not scientific, and do not deserve equal time in a scientific debate.”
― Naomi Oreskes, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

“If all of this were taking place, Musk, then in his mid-fifties, likely would be the richest man in the world and among its most powerful.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

“The real problem lay outside the banking system”
― Christopher Leonard, The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy