Quotes About Challenge

Letting go and trusting others to do things well is one of the more challenging aspects of being a leader of a growing organization.

I'm tired of sailing my little boat Far inside of the harbor bar; I want to be out where the big ships float — Out on the deep where the Great Ones are! … And should my frail craft prove too slight For storms that sweep those wide seas o'er, Better go down in the stirring fight Than drowse to death by the sheltered shore! — Daisy Rinehart

Scaling up is every entrepreneur's dream — and nightmare. Hypergrowth is terrifying, and it's most often success that kills great companies. This

Make no mistake: the future is now about survival.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

When problems go beyond hope of solution, insanity comes creeping.

A thousand million times, castle technologies had fallen to things like cannon; why should her world be different?

We're endangered by our own success.

Real courage comes from outfacing the danger.

Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent.

No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.

Necessity is the mother of invention. Danger is the father of preparation.

No great man will ever succeed in life if they do not grind their teeth and take the most dangerous path for the attainment of an end.

David he'd become, but against what Goliath did he rage so fierce?

When we start organizing, we tend to put tactics before reason. We see a messy space and launch a wild, full frontal assault before we understand the background of the problem and equip ourselves to meet the challenge. This is like going into battle unarmed without knowing our enemy!

It's much easier to destroy a life than it is to live one.'

Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.

part of the battle, before things had gone from bad to worse. Alem imagined himself in Tosh's position, with death coming

The thing is," Tom said, "I won't come." "Just to spoil my fun? Or you think you're still too weak?

No victorious revolution without an idea. Certainly! But just as certainly: It is not the idea which makes a revolution, but privation which causes it to break out. And once under way, it deviates from the idea.

Méfie-toi, Artémitch, du confort bureaucratique, C'est de la vase; on s'y noie.

I had learned a long time ago that there was no point at all in setting out to meet dragons and in the like on an empty stomach.

SAP with its sharp fangs was biting everyone in the behind, for our good, we are told