Lost in Startuplandia Quotes

“I had been defining entrepreneurship as withstanding discomfort for unreasonably long periods of time, and he was literally following his bliss. He kicked off his now legendary career by cofounding the Warped Tour, the longest-running traveling music festival in the United States. While I was fighting to get the debt monkey off my back, he had cofounded the coolest circus ever.”
― E. Keller Fitzsimmons, Lost in Startuplandia: Wayfinding for the Weary Entrepreneur

“An entrepreneur is someone who can withstand discomfort for an unreasonably long period of time,”
― E. Keller Fitzsimmons, Lost in Startuplandia: Wayfinding for the Weary Entrepreneur

“The lessons learned here come down to one word: resilience. Each of us had to tap into great stores of energy that, frankly, we didn’t know we even had. We had to find increasingly novel ways to keep ourselves going through the unrelenting storms and dark nights of the soul. We learned that resilience isn’t a given or a personality trait. It’s a precious resource that must be continuously and consciously managed.”
― E. Keller Fitzsimmons, Lost in Startuplandia: Wayfinding for the Weary Entrepreneur