Quotes About Outcomes

If you want to make money at some point, remember this, because this is one of the reasons startups win. Big companies want to decrease the standard deviation of design outcomes because they want to avoid disasters. But when you damp oscillations, you lose the high points as well as the low. This is not a problem for big companies, because they don't win by making great products. Big companies win by sucking less than other big companies.

One basket had very good figs, like those that ripen early, but the other basket contained very poor figs, so bad they could not be eaten.

By their fruit you will recognize them. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?

So then, by their fruit you will recognize them.

Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.

No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit.

My brothers, can a fig tree grow olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.