Niecy Nash Quotes

Like everybody, I'm making up my life as I go along.

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.

The moment your kid's born you realize no one knows anything. No one goes to classes. You just have a kid. You can read all the books you like, but unfortunately none of our kids have read the books so they don't care. You're basically making it up as you go along.

I try to be home for dinner, but I'm not there enough. I sometimes feel I'm still fumbling, getting it wrong, but I make my way.

In technology startups, there's a lot of winging it.

People learn from their mistakes and move forward.

I improvised my life along the way - I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.

The metaphor that I frequently use for entrepreneurship is jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane plane on the way down.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.

If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong.

I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best.

I got a very late start at fatherhood. I'm a late bloomer in general. It took me seven years to get through four years of college. I was five years away from 40 before I had a family, and I had never been around kids much at all. All of a sudden, I was around three boys all the time.

I really feel that most things are difficult at the beginning and they become fun, something you love, only after you've worked at them. Making children do something hard can, in the long run, be a great parental service.

I'm not somebody who plans. There were times I planned a lot in my life, and it never turns out how you plan it. So I think it's important not to. I'm a very spontaneous person.

As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility.

Kids don't come with an instruction manual. So if you're gonna make mistakes, at least make them your own way.

I spent 26 years in the business without ever knowing what I was doing a month from now.

I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself.

For some reason, I like to put myself in situations where I don't even know how I ended up there. I never want to be complacent or comfortable in a role.

There are people who are able to plan their career, their future, but I've never had any talent for that. I just do things and hope for the best. Say yes, take a chance, and sometimes it's terrific and sometimes it's not.

I can write anywhere. I actually wrote more than I ever did when I had small children. My children were never a hindrance.

I never stop making sure that what I say is the best of what could be said about a particular thing. It's a constant evolution. If I planted a tree one way yesterday, and somebody tells me of a better way to plant a tree, I think, 'You know, they're right, that's better.' Then I change my way to accommodate the new way of planting trees.

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.

Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.