Surround yourself with those who are going to lift you higher.
Future companies are either data-driven or obsolete.
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.