"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."
– Bertrand Russell
"You must wake up every morning and choose to be happy. You gotta put on happiness like you put on your clothes."
"To be happy I think you have to be doing something you not only enjoy, but admire. You have to be able to say, at the end, wow, that’s pretty cool. This doesn’t mean you have to make something. If you learn how to hang glide, or to speak a foreign language fluently, that will be enough to make you say, for a while at least, wow, that’s pretty cool. What there has to be is a test."
"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing in."
– Katherine Mansfield
Every startup executive has to operate under the assumption that incoming employees have *no* working knowledge of what an employee stock option is or how it operates. Failing to abide by this simple rule can result in miscommunication, misaligned expectations and at worst executives taking…
