"What would the world look like if more people tried to change things, conspired to change things they found unjust, unfair, immoral?"."Cunning and resources might win the war, but it’s the stories and the myths afterward that will determine who deserved to win it."."Another maxim from Napoleon: "Never interrupt an enemy making a mistake.”".It is having redundancies on top of redundancies, so you can absorb the losses you eventually incur." "And so the essential trait of the successful man is not only perseverance but almost a perverse expectation of how difficult it is going to be.
""The problem with the Silicon Valley," as Jim Barksdale, the former CEO and president of Netscape, once put it, "is that we tend to confuse a clear view with a short distance.”"."It has been the great collective self-deception of Silicon Valley, and perhaps of our age, that a person can engage in aggressive “disruption" of existing industries while pretending that they are not at least similar to the ruthless capitalist barons of the previous century, that there is not a drop of Carnegie or Rockefeller or Vanderbilt DNA in the whole business."."We are often taught that successful strategy is a matter of boldness, but it has also always been the case that it’s as much a matter of patience and due diligence as it is of noticeable action.".What would happen if more people took up plotting, coordinating how to eliminate what they believe are negative forces and obstacles, and tried to wield power in an attempt to change the world? We could almost always use more boldness, and less complacency.”" Too little scheming, rather than too much. "Perhaps we have too few conspiracies, not too many.
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