Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.
I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left.
I think making a name for yourself is a wrong objective...I would prefer to look for ways where you can make maximum contribution, and thatepends on two things: clearly what your skills are and, less clearly, what the activities that you truly enjoy are. By choosing occupations that you can get excited about you are likely to do your best work.
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human