Growth Quotes

"Every day you are trying to find more of what you're capable of."

"You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft that you will die without ever realizing your true potential."

"Life is one big tug of war between mediocrity and trying to find your best self."

"Pain unlocks a secret doorway in the mind, one that leads to both peak performance, and beautiful silence."

"Denial is the ultimate comfort zone."

"You gain knowledge through suffering. And on the other end of suffering is a world that very few people have ever seen."

"True self-confidence is not a feeling. It’s a state of being. It’s the ability to look in the mirror and like what you see."

"Your entitled mind is dead weight. Cut it loose."

"Nobody cares what you did yesterday. What have you done today to better yourself?"

"We all have the ability to come from nothing to something."

"The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing."

"The world is not a place of suffering to be endured, but a school where the soul is formed through experience."

"Failure is the crucible in which the strongest characters are forged; it is the highway to success."

"The creative mind is like a spider, spinning its own web of beauty from the materials found within itself."

"Everything in nature is a lesson in patience and the inevitable cycle of renewal."

"Failure is not the opposite of success; it's a stepping stone to scale."

"Blitzscaling is what you do when you need to grow really, really quickly. It’s the science and art of rapidly building out a company to serve a large and usually global market, with the goal of becoming the first mover at scale."

"Zero to one is about creation; one to n is about scaling. Both require entirely different mindsets."

"The best way to scale is to build something that people love so much they tell their friends. Organic growth is the most powerful engine."

"Product-market fit isn't a one-time event. You have to maintain it as you scale, or the growth will eventually break the business."

"Scaling is what you do when you need to grow really, really quickly. It is the science and art of building up a company to service a large, usually global, market, with a very fast rate of growth and under conditions of uncertainty."

"The only way you're ever going to get to the other side of this journey is by suffering. You have to suffer in order to grow."

"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change."

"Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change."

"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely."

"Abundance is about creating a world of possibility."

"Play iterated games. All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest."

"Commerce is a positive-sum game."

"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."

"Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it."

"I don't think limits."

"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."