“One of Mark Twain's more uplifting quotes maintains that small people always belittle your ambitions, while the great make you feel that you can be great.” Marktwain Book:Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley Source: Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
“Investors are people with more money than time. Employees are people with more time than money. Entrepreneurs are simply the seductive go-betweens. Startups are business experiments performed with other people’s money. Marketing is like sex: only losers pay for it.” “Company culture is what goes without saying. There are no real rules, only laws. Success forgives all sins. People who leak to you, leak about you. Meritocracy is the propaganda we use to bless the charade. Greed and vanity are the twin engines of bourgeois society. Most managers are incompetent and maintain their jobs via inertia and politics. Lawsuits are merely expensive feints in a well-scripted conflict narrative between corporate entities. Capitalism is an amoral farce in which every player—investor, employee, entrepreneur, consumer—is complicit.” SuccessManagersInvestorsStartupsEmployees Book:Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley Source: Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley