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The wisdom of folksy statements is usually a distillation of a morality tale of some sort. Reasoning about them in the abstract is missing the point. It isn't
by dalbasal 5y ago
The wisdom of folksy statements is usually a distillation of a morality tale of some sort. Reasoning about them in the abstract is missing the point. It isn't a pure logic kind of exercise.
Anyway, discussing the wisdom rally cries, 15 years later... Most business wisdom is temporal. What applies to a >10 person startup hoping to raise $4m by the end of 2006 may not be the applicable wisdom today.