Focus on one thing Quote by Antonio Garcia Martinez

“First, the ability to monomaniacally and obsessively focus on one thing and one thing only, at the expense of everything else in life. I” quote by Antonio Garcia Martinez — Download Open image

““First, the ability to monomaniacally and obsessively focus on one thing and one thing only, at the expense of everything else in life. I””

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“All ambitious men want either to please their fathers or to punch them in the goddamned face.”

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“Don’t work for the survivors or architects of massacres. You’ll live just long enough to regret it.”

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“In all my experience in both startups and large companies, including and especially at Facebook, I would always prefer - a hundred times prefer - being subject to the rigors of the market, the fickleness of luck, and the whims of users than to navigate the popularity-contest politics of a large company, surrounded by the mediocre duffers who've succeeded in…

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“As a Facebook product manager, you resembled an Afghan warlord or a pirate captain: fearsome in appearance to any outsiders, the scourge of entire companies and industries, but actually barely in control of your small band of engineer-hooligans, and always one step from mutiny. To the outside world, your job was easy: a two-line email would have the senior management…

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