"All Truth Passes Through Three Stages..."
The following quote is stenciled on the wall of idealab, a business incubator in
Pasadena, California.
Idealab is run by the extraordinary entrepreneur Bill Gross and COO Marcia Goodstein.
Bill Gross has started dozens of companies in his career, including Citysearch, eToys, and GoTo.com. Gross is therefore well-acquainted with the reaction new ideas often get when they are first introduced to the world, as well as the attitude you have to have when you introduce them.
To succeed as Gross has, you have to believe in your ideas when other people are laughing at them--or, worse, attacking them.
So it was no surprise to see this quote from the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer on idealab's wall:
Idealab is run by the extraordinary entrepreneur Bill Gross and COO Marcia Goodstein.
Bill Gross has started dozens of companies in his career, including Citysearch, eToys, and GoTo.com. Gross is therefore well-acquainted with the reaction new ideas often get when they are first introduced to the world, as well as the attitude you have to have when you introduce them.
To succeed as Gross has, you have to believe in your ideas when other people are laughing at them--or, worse, attacking them.
So it was no surprise to see this quote from the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer on idealab's wall:
"All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self evident."
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
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