business

“If you're an academic, your job is to try and be right, unambiguously, completely, absolutely right about something. In business, if only 30% of people do a weird thing 20% of the time, there's still a business opportunity in that.”

“It's the only opportunity that you can have as an individual in business to really create impact in the world. Otherwise you're an employee, part of a big machine.”

“We dramatically, vastly overuse science.”

“A lot of great athletes take it personally. And those are things that you also have to shed when you get out of sport and into life and business is take things less personally.”

“If you have only one leg of a stool, it's easy to kick out, right? So, like, if you say, hey, everything that I am is my business, and you put your identity in that, it's when your business does poorly or it collapses, it just, it shakes you. If you have multi…”

“In business, it's more like being a professional sports franchise, right? You're assembling the best players and you know, we may be friends, but we don't have to be friends because we're not coming together on the basis of friendship. We're coming together on…”

“People always talk about, you know, hacks and quick wins, and how can you shorten the timeline? And ultimately, I think that leads to maybe a quick win here and there, but not longevity. And in business and in sport, The careers are built on longevity and that…”

“I think it is, it's very hard these days to make a profitable business. I think there's never been a harder time to make a profitable business. Never been an easier time to start a business.”

“The more pain you can tolerate in business, the higher likelihood you'll succeed over time. It's just shots on goal”

“Losing money is not pleasant, but every business must at times lose money. Losing money is really serious if you do not know why you are losing, or if you do know why and cannot help yourself.”

“In business, reliability beats everything else. Speed without predictability is useless.”