You start a company.
It fails (as first companies often do).
You start another.
People ask you ‘Why?’
‘Haven’t you gotten the entrepreneurial bug
out of your system?’
‘Haven’t you already done it?’
These questions are asked more often
when your first company was a success.
Madonna,
in Harper’s Bazaar,
shares
“Does somebody ask
Steven Spielberg
why he’s still making movies?
Hasn’t he had enough success?
Hasn’t he made enough money?
Hasn’t he made a name for himself?
Did somebody go to Pablo Picasso
and say,
“Okay, you’re 80 years old.
Haven’t you painted enough paintings?”
No.
I’m so tired of that question.
I just don’t understand it.
I’ll stop doing everything that I do
when I don’t want to do it anymore.
I’ll stop
when I run out of ideas.
I’ll stop
when you fucking kill me.
How about that?”
We build companies
because that is what we do.
It is our gift to the universe,
our way of making a difference.
There’s no stopping us.
Many of us will happily create products
until we die.
And that’s something
to be proud of,
to embrace.