"A compromise is a river stone ground down over time to something perfectly agreeable...and mediocre."

A thread of my favorite quotes from Shopify CEO @tobi & President @harleyf from our Clubhouse chat

For motivating your team: "Get people to fall in love with the same problem"

"It's hard to build an ecommerce brand, but the cost of failure is as close to zero as it's ever been."

"Sometimes failing makes you better at winning. Some of the top Shopify shops are shop #6 for the merchant [after 5 failures]" -Shopify's @tobi & @harleyf

"Look at failure as the successful discovery of things that did not work"

"You have to go on all the side-quests to get info or fail utterly...and manage to keep going."

"The goal is not to win, the goal is to see how deep the rabbit hole goes" -Shopify's @tobi & @harleyf

"Entrepreneurship is working 100 hours for yourself so you don't have to work 40 hours for someone else"

"You need role models. People who know entrepreneurs have the audacity to try it." -Shopify's @tobi & @harleyf

"People are looking for an alternative career path. What if everyone commercialized their hobby? You just need 1000 true fans"

"Every 26 seconds, a new entrepreneur gets their first sale on Shopify." - @tobi & @harleyf

"Be where your competitors aren't" [like new social apps & community groups]

"But the web browser is the one place on the internet you can truly own. No middle men. You can really tell your story & it will outlast every channel." -Shopify's @tobi & @harleyf