Some interesting excerpts from 3 different posts/quotes on what it means to be truly experienced as a “startup founder”. I share it because I admire the action, drive and tenacity of “people that make it happen”. I love this quote from Theodore Roosevelt in a 1910 speech about “The Man In The Arena“, mainly because it’s more about “making it happen” versus exalting startup vets over others… as I think that you can make-it-happen in many different arenas.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
