We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes — understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

Life is a dance between making it happen and letting it happen.

Courage begins the difficult deed, but fortune governs its outcome.

-- Democritus

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

-- Bertrand Russell

Fear is the disease. Hustle is the antidote.

-- Travis Kalanick

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.

-- Sara Blakely

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

-- Walt Disney

Short selling is intellectually much harder than going long. You need to have a thesis, and you also need the courage to stick with it when things go against you.

-- David Einhorn