Book Titles

The Messy Middle
Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture

By Scott Belsky

Year Published: 2018
ISBN-13: 978-0735218079
Categories: Boldness, Entrepreneurship, Volatility

122 Quotes Found

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The Messy Middle:

The accounting of how you spend your minutes is the hard truth of your values.

322

The Messy Middle:

Imagination happens only when your mind has the freedom to run rampant.

328

The Messy Middle:

When you’re fully receptive, encounters of chance and mistakes of the eye become ideas.

336

The Messy Middle:

A great founder isn’t necessarily a great finisher. The final mile is a different sport, which means you need to bring on new kinds of coaches and employ different training tactics.

347

The Messy Middle:

When you don’t feel ready for an outcome or wonder whether or not you deserve it, you may unknowingly fight it.

352

The Messy Middle:

Don’t let success at a company prevent you from pursuing scary and wonderful new opportunities to build.

359

The Messy Middle:

…you are not your work. Your work, or your art, is something you’ve made. It can fail, be sold, or be left behind, but it can’t be you.

360

The Messy Middle:

Realizing a deeply held conviction was wrong is a new lease on life. It means you’re still a student, still learning, and not done yet…

367

The Messy Middle:

Challenges will either depress or mobilize your efforts in new ways, but not both.

368

The Messy Middle:

Whatever challenge you’re suffering from, you can use it to decide if you want to live less or live more.

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