The Creator's Code The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs Quotes

“The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage. —Arie de Geus”
― Amy Wilkinson, The Creator's Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs

“Creators test ideas in low-risk experiments and quickly, creatively, and inexpensively gather insights to determine whether a product or idea will take off. By taking small risks, they avoid catastrophic mistakes. “Failure is something you know only in hindsight,” Handle cofounder and Menlo Ventures partner Shawn Carolan said. As an entrepreneur trying to solve e-mail overload with Handle, a software application, Carolan calls the twists and turns “pivots” that reveal failure only in retrospect. Creators try several approaches to find out what will work and what will not. •”
― Amy Wilkinson, The Creator's Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs

“But you have to do the best you can, and if you’re not having problems, you’re probably not going fast enough.”
― Amy Wilkinson, The Creator's Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs

“Creators don’t get stuck looking back. They take lessons forward and avoid the trap of regret. They don’t expend effort on what has happened. Instead, they spend all of their energy on what they can do next.”
― Amy Wilkinson, The Creator's Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs

“I’m here to build something for the long term. Anything else is a distraction,” Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg said when he declined Yahoo’s $1 billion offer to buy his social networking service in 2006. The average twenty-two-year-old would have accepted millions in profit from a dorm-room experiment, but Zuckerberg kept his eyes on the horizon.”
― Amy Wilkinson, The Creator's Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs

“Starting a sharing-economy company wasn’t trendy or cool. No venture capitalist clamored to fund “the weird idea” to rent couches and extra bedrooms to strangers. The Airbnb founders’ idea was a long shot. Or was it?”
― Amy Wilkinson, The Creator's Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs

“Airbnb reached “Ramen profitability” in 2010. Gebbia explained: “It’s the moment when you’re making enough in revenue to pay your rent and eat Top Ramen. If you can get to that moment, you have an unlimited runway.”
― Amy Wilkinson, The Creator's Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs

“But the struggle made them more frugal and creative.”
― Amy Wilkinson, The Creator's Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs

“Plank isn’t an expert in fabrics or manufacturing, or even retail. He never played a down in the National Football League. He doesn’t hold a degree from an Ivy League school. He is a creator who has cracked the creator’s code. “What defines our brand is that there is this blue-collar, this walk-on mentality, that there is nothing that can stop me, there is nothing that can prevent me from moving forward to being successful,” Plank said as we walked across Under Armour’s campus in a gritty Baltimore neighborhood.”
― Amy Wilkinson, The Creator's Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs

“Dedicated to things that haven’t happened yet and the dreamers who will make them come true”
― Amy Wilkinson, The Creator's Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs

“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. —Ralph Waldo Emerson”
― Amy Wilkinson, The Creator's Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs

“There are no slam dunks,” said Alex Laskey, cofounder of Opower, which sells energy-saving software. “Might as well fail trying to do something important.”
― Amy Wilkinson, The Creator's Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs

“Creators discover what ignites them, then fuel their efforts with a sense of mission that transcends the bottom line.”
― Amy Wilkinson, The Creator's Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs