• “Play long enough and you might get lucky – In the technology game, tomorrow looks nothing like today.”

• “Remember that this is what separates the women from the girls. If you want to be great, this is the challenge. If you don’t want to be great, then you never should have started a company.”

• …And the one that is true for a lot of other cases, not just startups: “The Struggle is where greatness comes from.”

It’s about grit and your ability to be optimistic 90% of the time and realistic in the other 50%

– The Hard Thing About Hard Things.