The Long Run & Other True Stories Quotes

“Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.”
― JEFF BEZOS, The Long Run & Other True Stories

“What’s the secret to my miraculous recovery, you might ask? Well, there is no secret because there has been no miracle. I got better the way everyone gets better: by trial and error and error and error, by fumbling around and making mistakes but not giving up and working incredibly hard at it every day and eventually, through a painful and laborious process of eliminating every wrong turn, finding my way. For me, the hardest part was”
― Mishka Shubaly, The Long Run & Other True Stories

“You don’t get to try them out, and you don’t get to give them back.” Great,”
― Mishka Shubaly, The Long Run & Other True Stories

“When you say something true, even by accident, there is no way of taking it back.”
― Mishka Shubaly, The Long Run & Other True Stories

“It wasn’t about to happen — it had already happened. All we had to do was rock hard and drink harder and we would catch up to our destiny.”
― Mishka Shubaly, The Long Run & Other True Stories

“The song had magic in it. It made me something more than I had been. I was no longer just the acerbic guy intent on drinking himself to death. There was now a small but special thing about me. I could do something: I could play a song, transport people from their own lives for a second, and make them sad. It was music’s promise of transformation that brought me to this graveyard of dreams, New York City, in”
― Mishka Shubaly, The Long Run & Other True Stories

“But your old life doesn’t just fall away from you like a snake shedding its skin. You carry it with you everywhere you go. Whenever I walk into a bar for a show, I still know how to talk to the bartender to get free drinks all night after only buying a couple of rounds. I know who’s got coke or who knows someone who can get it and I know who would take me home.”
― Mishka Shubaly, The Long Run & Other True Stories