mjking’s most recent Quotables

Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

"But the majority of things that one could get stressed about, they’re not worth getting stressed about."

This ability to bounce back after a setback is the single most important trait an entrepreneurial venture can possess

You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

Whatever you’re thinking, think bigger.

When people are placed in positions slightly above what they expect, they are apt to excel.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

If you just work on stuff that you like and you're passionate about, you don't have to have a master plan with how things will play out.

Based on the premise that start-ups tend to fail through lack of customers rather than lack of technology or product features, customer development is a systematic way of identifying who the customer is, what it is they need and whether that need is sufficient to build a business on.

The internet smashes gatekeepers, democratizes markets and brings a greater degree of control to people's lives. Strive to empower.

The web is a social movement and I like to think of a new company as a manifesto.

It's hard to do a really good job on anything you don't think about in the shower.

There are lots of good reasons to abandon a project. Having a little competition is not one of them.

When bootstrapping, you need to find a team that’s willing to work for nothing and spend their off hours with you.

Make something someone specific needs, launch fast, let users show you what to change, change it, repeat the last two.

To lean startup method is not about cost, it is about speed.

Never let your schooling interfere with your education.