“Arrogance protects you from the naysayers who will try to put your business idea down. You have to say to yourself, ‘I believe in what I am doing.’ If you listen to everybody, you wouldn’t do your idea, because they would tell you about everything that could go wrong with it. I only gave up on one of my seven companies. I made a big mistake because I didn’t trust my own judgment. It’s about sticking with your crazy idea until it’s worth a lot. You put skin in the game, and you fight hard. Sometimes it’s borderline madness.
- — Martin Varsavsky, serial entrepreneur, founder of FON, via BusinessWeek (via Gabor Cselle)
