Trip Hawkins Quotes

Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.

Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight with the them hereafter.

Life teaches you that you need to make decisions in the right time - not too early, not too late.

Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?

No one wants to be patient. No one wants to wait for anything. They want it right now - that instant gratification.

It’s true what they say about patience being a virtue; it just happens to be a virtue that I choose not to pursue.

Patience expands your options. If you insist on immediate gratification, your choices are severely limited.

Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.

It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle.

I bought me a spy-glass some weeks since. I buy but a few things, and those not till long after I begin to want them, so that when I do get them I am prepared to make a perfect use of them and extract their whole sweet.

I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.

How do we appreciate the good without letting it be the enemy of the perfect? How do we keep a step in the right direction from becoming a stopping point? How do we get beyond shades of insipid light green?

Older people do a better job of managing their impulses, and so they're better able to put off putting off.

Delayed gratification is the one thing we ignore these days. And if you delay it, it becomes more pleasurable later in life.

The main reason for people's lack of success is their willingness to give up what they want most of all, for what they want right now!

It's better to stay too long than to leave too soon.

Keep what you've got till you get what you need, y'all. You gotta give a lot just to get what you need sometimes, y'all.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, "In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!

You’d get very rich if you thought of yourself as having a card with only twenty punches in a lifetime, and every financial decision used up one punch. You’d resist the temptation to dabble. You’d make more good decisions and you’d make more big decisions.

If we wait for the perfect answer, the world will pass us by

Vision rarely require immediate action. It requires patience.

The person who forgets the ultimate is a slave to the immediate.

A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.