Comments on: When to Burn the Boats

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:14:53 +0000

Beautiful written. I was just writing a chapter in a book called “Back-Ups Hold You Back” and was looking for this quote about the ancient greek’s burning their ships and found this beautifully written piece.

Thank you for sharing this wonderfully written article.

You may not know the results, but if you think you will fail, you will. Do not leave your life to chance and luck – if they help you along the way – so be it.

Thanks again,

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:29:58 +0000

Thank Alex for sharing this wonderful article. Well advised.

One must be able to know him/her self…how capable of he/she is to endure hardships and obstacles that comes in his/her way. I mean one must know his/her level of tolerance…that all can be learnt and raised by trial and error excercise but once you succeed to attain your extreme degree of endurance, you will stand out with all your confidence to overcome any situation you might be in. so the point is, when You know yourself, you know when to take step and how to cope up with things that mingle in. You wont be asking The time to burn your boat…Because you know.

By: Make No Little Plans – Defining the Scalable Startup « Steve Blank

Make No Little Plans – Defining the Scalable Startup « Steve Blank — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:03:28 +0000

[...] were aligned with the founders. For the entire team, turning down the Google deal was equivalent to burning the boats on the shore. (One founder quit and joined Google.) After that, there was no doubt to existing employees and new [...]

By: Calet

Calet — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:16:47 +0000

Alex Blackwell: Thank you. It does make sense, and now I’m able to understand that expression, and ready to use it as well. Thank you, again.

By: Alex Blackwell

Alex Blackwell — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:25:58 +0000

@ Calet: The expression “to burn a bridge” means to take an action you may regret and will not be able to take back. For example, if you leave a job and on your way out the door you tell your boss that you do not care for him or her. The problem is if your next job does not work out, you will not be able to go back to your old job because you “burned a bridge” with you parting remarks. Make sense?