“Work Hard, have fun, make history”
“Talking to Time Magazine a few years back, Peter Drucker got to the heart of things: “I will tell you a secret: Dealmaking beats working. Dealmaking is exciting and fun, and working is grubby. Running anything is primarily an enormous amount of grubby detail work . . . dealmaking is romantic, sexy. That’s why you have deals that make no sense.” ― Warren Buffett
Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn't smooth. You'll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don't believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don't give up. ― Mark Zuckerberg
“Complaining is not a strategy.You have to work with the world as you find it, not as you would have it be.” ― Jeff Bezos
“It’s not easy to work here (when I interview people I tell them, “You can work long, hard, or smart, but at Amazon.com you can’t choose two out of three”), but we are working to build something important, something that matters to our customers, something that” ― Jeff Bezos
“You can work long, hard, or smart, but at Amazon.com you can’t choose two out of three”),” ― Jeff Bezos
“Most people,” he said, “think that if they work hard, they should be able to master a handstand in about two weeks. The reality is that it takes about six months of daily practice. If you think you should be able to do it in two weeks, you’re just going to end up quitting.” ― Jeff Bezos
“To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it’s going to work, it’s not an experiment.” ― Jeff Bezos
“I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness, to make sure it continues into the future” ― Elon Musk
“If the rules are such that you can’t make progress, then you have to fight the rules.” ― Elon Musk
“Working hard to make useful products & services for your fellow humans is deeply morally good.” ― Elon Musk
“If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.” ― Warren Buffett
“Gold is a way of going long on fear, and it has been a pretty good way of going long on fear from time to time. But you really have to hope people become more afraid in a year or two years than they are now. And if they become more afraid you make money, if they become less afraid you lose money, but the gold itself doesn’t produce anything.” ― Warren Buffett
“In the 54 years (Charlie Munger and I) have worked together, we have never forgone an attractive purchase because of the macro or political environment, or the views of other people. In fact, these subjects never come up when we make decisions.” ― Warren Buffett
“Ideas don’t come out fully formed , they only become clearer as you work on them . You just have to get started.” ― Mark Zuckerberg
“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.” ― Mark Zuckerberg
“I really want to clear my life to make it so that I have to make as few decisions as possible about anything except how to best serve this community” ― Mark Zuckerberg
We are a mission-driven company. In order to do this, we have to build a great team. And in order to do that, you need people to know they can make a bunch of money. So we need a business model to make a lot of money. ― Mark Zuckerberg
The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like. ― Mark Zuckerberg
It's not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad. ― Mark Zuckerberg
If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields. ― Mark Zuckerberg