resilience Quotes

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn't smooth. You'll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don't believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don't give up.

It's, like, even in journeys like Facebook, we've had some very serious ups and downs.

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

It is good for a person who has suffered from acute shyness, as I had, to find that he can cause as much upset as he suffered. Better to be a brute, I thought, than to be a wallflower.

Think of the aged and bed-ridden Matisse cutting out strips of coloured paper, much as a child might, and investing them with a more than mortal vitality... Those strips of paper resonate because they prove that our materials don't determine in advance the worth of what we make.

The Christian Armenian story was the Polish Jewish story. The efforts of the Armenians to stay alive in Musa Dagh chimed with those struggling to survive the ghetto.

One of the great things about us Jews is that we tell the best jokes. Part of the reason is we tell jokes against ourselves - before anyone else gets to do it.

The world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don't try and burn the planet down.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.