"Everything is always impossible before it works. That's what entrepreneurs are all about - doing what people have told them is impossible."

-- Hunt Greene, Venture Capitalist

"The original entrepreneurs of the world are astounding and profound witness to the abilities of ideas and inventions which shaped our world". Jason Leverette 

 

"The patent system added the fuel of interest to the fire of genius." Abraham Lincoln (the only U.S. President to be issued a patent)¹.

Hello Bogdan,

Very interesting quote.  I understand what the author is saying in this quote, but it rubs me wrong. 

I sense that the author is responding to someone's negative comment and he is trying to confirm that they will never believe it to be possible until they actually see it in action and that he (an entrepreneur) will show them.

I believe that anything is possible even before I am able to make it work.  If I didn't have the "anything is possible" attitude, I probably wouldn't waste my time working on it.   I can't imagine something thinking everything to be impossible because even that is possible.

I hope I haven't missed the point of this interesting quote.

Hi Bogdan, Joe has a point. "Everything is POSSIBLE". I see that things may look impossible til it works and people may say It can't be done til they see it works but impossible is so definite. One should always keep an open mind. In my life time I have seen many impossibles---man on the moon, cars that can go (??? miles an hour),messages across the world in a split second, movies in my living room, Gas for $3.00 a gallon, other galaxies. YOu name it and I was told when young that it wouldn't work. Always believe and it just might work. Oh yes, and you haven't failed til you quite trying to make it work.

Hello Bogdan,

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