A pointer to a pointer to a pointer to a memorable quote

I came across a very nice quote on Mike Arrington’s TechCrunch. Mike quotes Yossi Vardi quoting Teddy Roosevelt as below:

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

“Citizenship in a Republic,”
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

What I found particularly interesting was the analogy drawn by Vardi towards entrepreneurship. And as a fledgling entrepreneur, I can instantly identify with this quote.

Definitely worth noting down somewhere in my book blog.