Fred Wilson Quotes

You don't have to solve every problem at once.

Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.

We haven't rushed to set up targets, either in business or in football. Our goal was to understand how to act and then to move gradually.

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

I don't want to pack everything into one year and then do nothing the rest of my life. I think it's important to do things bit by bit.

When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.

We can't solve all of our problems in a short time.

For me pressure is positive. The players need to know they need to deliver results because we have massive support but we also need time because Rome was not built in a day.

Everything happens at one step at a time.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that's by going step by step.

I take things one step at a time.

Nothing happens without focus. Don't try to do everything at once. Take it one step at a time.

The best teachers have shown me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly - we only think it does.

If you're running a 26-mile marathon, remember that every mile is run one step at a time. If you are writing a book, do it one page at a time. If you're trying to master a new language, try it one word at a time. There are 365 days in the average year. Divide any project by 365 and you'll find that no job is all that intimidating.

Don't look at the big picture as the only achievement. Start with set, smart goals and work up to something bigger.

Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

One cannot leap a chasm in two jumps.

Life is not a sprint. It was never meant to be. It is just a step of faith after another.

Sometimes the problem has to mature before the solution can mature.

In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.

It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.

Decide that you will not try to do everything at once. That is why time is spread out.

Everything takes time... and that's something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to. You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously. You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.

Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.

I used to try and take things in leaps and bounds. Now I've realized it's got to be step by step.