Hi, my name is Andrew and I’ve been an entrepreneur for 9 months now. And let me tell you, I’ve probably learned more in these past nine months than in any other nine months of my life (save perhaps the nine months after I was born and maybe even the nine months after that when I was a knowledge soaking sponge, but you get the idea). Being an entrepreneur is great shit. Of course, I don’t get company benefits, paid vacation, and a paycheck every two weeks, but I’m learning a lot damnit. It’s school for the real world and I consider the lack of a paycheck my tuition.

As many of you already know, I’m a fan of trying to condense knowledge and emotion into a single line of text (a proverb, so to speak). It’s an excellent exercise of internalizing something learned and mashing it up in your head until you come up with a one-liner. It’s also great for advertising copy, as my colleague Art Bradshaw would say. But anyways, I found this great list of Entrepreneurial Proverbs on O’Reilly Radar and thought I should share it. My favorite: Work only with people you like and believe in. And the one that I need to add to the list (told to me by our advisor Don Myll): Always seek a fast “no” instead of pursuing a slow “no”.