"Spending all your money before you have a business model, makes about as much sense as drinking all your water before you hike across a desert so that you won’t have to carry the canteen."

Jay Samit Literature See all quotes by Jay Samit →

React to this quote

More by Jay Samit

“Unfortunately, growing up with a zero-sum perspective is like a horse wearing blinders – it limits the field of view for opportunity.”

“You have a choice: pursue your dreams or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.”

“There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.”

“A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.”

“Most of your life you have been told to get the safe and steady job by people who had given up on their dreams years before you came along.”

“No democracy can survive without a thriving middle class and entrepreneurs are our job creators.”

Resonant Thoughts

"For as long as I can remember, the guitar and music itself is the thing that has gotten me through everything. Whatever it is I'm thinking about, or worrying about, or feeling good about -- anything -…"

— Bill Frisell

Music1951

#music

"I wanted to write a play about racism, about poverty, about the negative forces that haunt us and make us murderous—and the positive forces that do daily battle for us—like love, friendship, family—wh…"

— Migdalia Cruz

Music1958

#friendship

"We have learned coordination of mind and body and the "ki breathing methods". Therefore we can bring the ki of the universe into our bodies at anytime. When a water pump is dried out, no water can flo…"

— Koichi Tohei

Philosophy1920–2011

#life

"They argue that if the rich are made rich enough, some wealth will spill over to make the poor less poor. There is no sign of that happening. On the contrary, the gap has widened. The number of those …"

— Roy Jenkins

Politics1920–2003

#money