Eric Jorgenson

“He just totally changed what we think of as reasonable or impactful in entrepreneurship and company building. So not just the playbook has changed, but like the targets that people can shoot at has changed.”

“And I can't name any other entrepreneurs that had nine figures of net worth and, you know, being as renowned and publicly sort of evaluated as he was, would take that risk of going back to zero just to fulfill the mission.”

“One of his things is like order of magnitude goals. You know, you're not gonna hear him ever say like, I would like you to increase that by 20%, please. You'd be like, drop that. The cost of that should be one percent of what it is. Or I want you to increase t…”

“When I hear, well, best practice is X, I'm like, oh, we're already lost. Like we're starting from a bad place because only incremental improvements are going to come from like, well, how do we do it today? Where he starts with is like, what is the theoreticall…”

“And what I realized is like erring on the side of firing too quickly is actually so rare. And so we have such like an emotional reaction to it. Oh, it's unfair, but actually 99.9% of organizations on the planet are erring on the side of firing too slowly.”

“Reject the trilemma because speed lowers cost, and so if you hold the quality bar and just move faster, you should be able to lower costs.”

“The modern forms of leverage are code, media, and capital. Zero marginal cost and uncapped and accesses this sort of global marketplace.”

“All the difference between a day laborer and Zillow is just like, how leveraged are you and how comfortable are you using each of those different forms of leverage?”

“Hard work is, you know, respectable and admired and yes, we should work hard, but hard work can only get you a two or three X improvement in what you're doing. And if you don't learn to improve how you're working or the elegance or improve your leverage, like …”

“But if you were mired in something else, just like, plodding along on not the biggest opportunity, rather than having the space to jump on the best opportunity, When it came about, then you might miss it. And like, that's the live like a lion kind of mindset i…”

“I give away, we've given away like five million copies of this book, but we've also sold like millions.”

“The degree that you specialize, even if you set out to be a generalist, you will end up becoming a specialist. A sufficiently, like, advanced generalist becomes a unique specialist”

“In particular, if you're young, I feel like it's hard to it's hard to appreciate that what, how lucky some people are getting is actually 20 years of, like, Carefully grown seeds and reputation and relationships and effort and like you shouldn't expect to get …”

“My perspective now in my thirties is that, you know, the first 20 years of your career is an audition for the second 20 years of your career”

“If you grind and beat yourself up, and have this brutal internal monologue, and, like, Right, all the way to, like, winning the game, finally achieving all these things that you hope to the whole time, you have the same epiphany that you can have right now, wh…”

“You can probably be equally effective by just, like by having emotional detachment, rather than having, like, being all in, all consumed, emotionally, like, wringing yourself out every day, feeling massive stress about everything that you're doing”

“And I think the people that end up the most unhappy have repressed so much because they never summoned the courage. And so they're like deeply aware of what it is that they truly want to be doing or feel like they could be doing and just never took that next l…”

“Meditation is the same way. It helps you separate sort of the evaluator, like the observed from the observant, like see your own thoughts from above, but writing it is, is a shortcut to doing it.”

“Pretty sure Eric has made, like, three to five million dollars off of the Navalman Act himself.”