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Didn't make the YC11 cut? Quotes to the rescue...

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'Success is going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.' Winston Churchill

'There are no short cuts to any place worth going.' Beverly Sills

'If everything seems under control you're not going fast enough.' Mario Andrretti

'To become a champion, fight one more round.' James Corbett

via It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be by Paul Arden

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piousbox
"We are still young, we are still eager to make mistakes."

"It is not the string of wrongs past, but the wrongs to come that I must look forward to."

Sorry, don't remember the sources.

joenorton
"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up." - Vince Lombardi
metachris
"Apparently the most likely animals to be left alive after a nuclear war are cockroaches, because they're so hard to kill. That's what you want to be as a startup, initially. Instead of a beautiful but fragile flower that needs to have its stem in a plastic tube to support itself, better to be small, ugly, and indestructible."

- PG in The hacker's guide to investors, Apr 2007