Learning Quotes

"Product/market fit means being in a good market with a product that can satisfy that market."

"If you don't look back at yourself and think, 'Wow, how stupid I was a year ago,' then you must not have learned much in the last year."

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

"The view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. A growth mindset turns failure into a gift."

"If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room."

"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."

"A mind that is full of conclusions is a mind that is dead."

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."

"Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education."

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."

"The enemy of competence is confidence."

"Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don't know anything."

"You are not an imposter. You are just new at this."

"The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company."

"You can’t worry about the mistakes, because you’re going to make a lot of them. You’ve got to worry about learning from the mistakes."

"Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, 'What am I not doing?'"

"All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal."

"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason."

"You don't want to be the smartest person in the room."

"Read. Read everything you can."

"We have a crisis of curiosity."

"My goal is not to be a contrarian. My goal is to be right."

"Man is by nature a political animal."

"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom."

"Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it."

"If you try to be the smartest person in the room, you will likely fail. If you try to be the most learning person in the room, you will likely succeed."

"The most successful people are those who hold strong opinions, loosely held."

"You need to be in a state of permanent beta."

"You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future."

"The first rule of networking is: Lead with curiosity."

"There is no correlation between being good at school and being good at startups."