Paul Graham Quotes

6 quotes from Paul Graham on investing, entrepreneurship and motivation.

On investing

• The most dangerous way to lose time is not to spend it having fun, but to spend it doing fake work. When you spend time having fun, you know you're being self-indulgent.

On entrepreneurship

• It's hard to do a really good job on anything you don't think about in the shower.

• The most important thing is not to let fundraising get you down. Startups live or die on morale. If you let the difficulty of raising money destroy your morale, it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

• When something annoys you, it could be because you're living in the future... Live in the future and build what seems interesting.

• That's the thing about counter-intuitive ideas, they contradict your intuitions. So, they seem wrong.

On motivation

• Keep your identity small.