Tribe of Mentors

Naval Ravikant

Founder, AngelList

“Build specific knowledge and leverage.”

Steve Jobs

Co-founder, Apple

“Focus means saying no.”

Warren Buffett

CEO, Berkshire Hathaway

“Stay inside your circle of competence.”

Jeff Bezos

Founder, Amazon

“Minimize regret; it is always Day 1.”

Jensen Huang

Founder and CEO, NVIDIA

“Greatness is forged by suffering.”

Benjamin Franklin

Printer, inventor, founding father

“Knowledge pays the best interest.”

“Greatness is a disciplined accumulation.”

Ray Dalio

Founder, Bridgewater

“Pain plus reflection equals progress.”

Andy Grove

Co-founder and CEO, Intel

“Only the paranoid survive.”

Satya Nadella

CEO, Microsoft

“Be a learn-it-all, not a know-it-all.”

Peter Drucker

Management thinker, The Effective Executive

“Do the right things, not just things right.”

Paul Graham

Co-founder, Y Combinator

“Do things that don't scale.”

Reed Hastings

Co-founder, Netflix

“Let go of what works before it stops working.”

Phil Knight

Co-founder, Nike

“Obsession comes before permission.”

Archimedes

Engineer and mathematician of Syracuse

“Find the lever and a place to stand.”

Amy Edmondson

Professor, Harvard Business School

“Fear makes teams go quiet.”

“Leave room for error.”

Akio Morita

Co-founder, Sony

“Invention creates demand.”

“Early drafts are ugly babies, protect them.”

Howard Schultz

Builder of Starbucks

“Protect what people loved in the first place.”

Sara Blakely

Founder, Spanx

“Failure is not trying.”

Lynn Conway

Computer scientist, VLSI pioneer

“Build the path, and others can walk it.”

Brunello Cucinelli

Founder, Brunello Cucinelli

“Profit with dignity.”