# #expression

> 14 public memos tagged #expression on MythOS.

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## Memos

- [Don’t buy yesterday's technology for tomorrow's prices.](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/2a85bd): "Don’t buy yesterday's technology for tomorrow's prices." Contexts expression startup-advice
- [Ask for money, get advice](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/d602e4): "Ask for money, get advice. Ask for advice, get money twice." is an expression, popularized by Pitbull, which is now used to convey the counter-intuitive insights to entrepreneurs raising capital....
- [Date before you marry](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/d1746c): "Date before you marry" is an expression often shared by seasoned, Silicon Valley founders, executives, and investors—comparing the 'founder and investor' relationship to marriage to stress the...
- [Fail early, fail often](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/bf73e8): "Fail early, fail often" is an expression commonly shared with entrepreneurs. Learning from mistakes is natural and taking risks is what entrepreneurs do. That doesn't mean you fetishize failure. [2]...
- [Fac, si facis](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/d71402): Fac, si facis (Do It If You’re Going To Do It) The painter Edgar Degas, though best known for his beautiful Impressionist paintings of dancers, toyed briefly with poetry. As a brilliant and creative...
- [Carpe Diem](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/b9ff72): Carpe Diem (Seize The Day) Locked in prison by Henry Bolingbroke (Henry IV) in Shakespeare’s Richard II, Richard II gives a haunting speech about his hopeless fate. One line stands out, as it...
- [Festina Lente](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/1616e0): Festina Lente (Make Haste Slowly) From the Roman historian Suetonius, we learn that festina lente was the motto of Rome’s first emperor, Augustus. “He thought nothing less becoming in a well-trained...
- [Good artists copy; great artists steal.](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/abd9cb): "Good artists copy; great artists steal" has been attributed to numerous sources. [1] The adage was engrained in my mind, and process, by the book 'Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You...
- [It's Research](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/38adf7): "If you take from one person, it’s stealing. If you take from lots of people, it’s research." ~ Teddy Tannenbaum Tags teddy_tannenbaum expression
- [Bring Experience To Words](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/4b2031): “The process is strange and yet it is true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.” ~ Plutarch “It wasn’t the words that helps me...
- [Principle Isn't Prophecy](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/e1ce5f): The expression "principle isn't prophecy"—itself being a principle—warns of the allure that guiding principles have "Fail early, fail often" as a principle provides guidance, but—when viewed as...
- [So let it be written, so let it be done.](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/75d9d4): "So let it be written, so let it be done." is an expression, often used in a religious context, that refers to the making an important decision. [1] The phrase is a representation of the power which...
- [If it works it’ll be perfect.](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/e0e5ed): "If it works it’ll be perfect." is an expression highlighting the dangers of perfectionism. "Perfect is the enemy of good." ~ Voltaire [1] References Perfect is the enemy of good, wikipedia.org Tags
- [Good founders copy, great founders steal.](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/4152bc): Good founders copy, great founders steal. is an expression that's comingsoon *This Living Document is inprogress. Want to see it now? Tell me why. References Tags