Walk the Dragon

'cos not everything
needs a TED talk

sharp insights from minds that shaped the world — and a few that history forgot to hype

22 November

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Walt Disney

21 November

Make something people want.

Y Combinator

20 November

I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.

Jeff Bezos

19 November

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle

18 November

In the midst of winter I found there was within me an invincible summer.

Albert Camus

17 November

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

16 November

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

15 November

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Victor Hugo

14 November

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it and I shall move the world.

Archimedes

13 November

People don’t buy what you do they buy why you do it.

Simon Sinek

12 November

We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.

John Dewey

11 November

The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas.

Paul Graham

10 November

The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King, Jr

9 November

Always deliver more than expected.

Larry Page

8 November

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

David Hume

17 September

A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.

Tim Ferriss

3 September

Each man longs to pursue his dream. Each man is tortured by this dream. But the dream gives meaning to his life. Even if the dream ruins his life. Man cannot allow himself to leave it behind.

Kentaro Miura

29 June

Everyone who has taken a shower has had an idea. But it’s the people who get out of the shower, towel off, and do something about it that makes the difference.

Nolan Bunshell

24 June

It’s better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Warren Buffet

23 June

Done is better than perfect.

Sheryl Sandberg