Mark Pincus Quotes

I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal sense.

Drifting, without aim or purpose, is the first cause of failure.

How can I fail when I have no purpose?

If you don't know what you want to do, it's harder to do it.

I love idleness. I love to busy myself about trifles, to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them, to come and go as my fancy bids me, to change my plan every moment, to follow a fly in all its circlings, to try and uproot a rock to see what is underneath, eagerly to begin a ten-years' task to give it up after ten minutes: in short, to fritter away the whole day inconsequentially and incoherently, and to follow nothing but the whim of the moment.

Am I a weed, carried this way, that way, on a tide that comes twice a day without a meaning?

The mark of a bad leader is not to make the wrong decision. It is to make no decision at all.

The way we always want to compromise between everything, I think that's really Belgian. I think I'm really Belgian for that, because I never make choices. That's my problem, actually.

As long as you're clear about your goal, failures don't mean it's not going to work.

Unfortunately, hardworking, academically gifted young people are kind of lazy when it comes to determining direction.

Mediocre founders spend a lot of time talking about grand plans, but they never quite make a decision.

When you're trying to please both sides of the fence at the same time you really can't do that.

If you have a choice of two things and can't decide, take both.

Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.

A point in every direction is the same as having no point at all.

A lot of people don't know what they want, you know, or they're just kind of vague about it.

Fatigue dominates the lives of those who are living without direction and dreams.

Many times through the ages, like as not the chance appears, but because of indecision, man's fond hopes are drowned in tears.

The idle mind knows not what it wants.

If only I knew what I wanted I could try to see about getting it.

Until a man selects a DEFINITE PURPOSE IN LIFE, he dissipates his energies & spreads his thoughts over so many subjects & in so many different directions that they lead not to power, but to indecision & weakness.

Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.

If you have no major purpose, you are drifting toward certain failure.

Person who chases two rabbits catches neither.

Between two stools one sits on the ground.