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Success Quote by Jerry Moss

"It's a great story. It's available for anyone else who wants to try it. We're not brilliant. We're not unbelievable. We're just two people who hit a nerve. I think it can be done again and again and again. More people should try it"

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There is a quiet dismantling of genius mythology in Jerry Moss's phrasing, and it reads like a businessman trying to keep lightning from being sealed inside a bottle. "It's a great story" acknowledges the seductive afterlife of success: once you win big, people want narrative more than they want mechanics. Then he flips the script. "It's available for anyone else" is both invitation and provocation, a refusal to let the market crown him as a one-off miracle.

The most strategic line is the blunt self-demystification: "We're not brilliant. We're not unbelievable". In a culture that fetishizes the visionary founder, Moss treats charisma as a distraction from repeatable process. That isn't humility for its own sake; it's an argument about systems. If what they did "hit a nerve", the operative skill is not divine inspiration but sensitivity to a moment - reading taste, timing, and unmet demand. "Nerve" implies the public was already primed; they simply touched the right pressure point.

The repetition in "again and again and again" is doing rhetorical work, turning a personal win into a scalable concept. He's implicitly talking about access: the story is "available" only if people believe it's permissible to try, to enter rooms that have historically been guarded by capital, networks, and gatekeepers. "More people should try it" sounds democratic, but it also doubles as a market thesis: industries calcify when everyone waits for permission. Moss is selling the idea that cultural entrepreneurship isn't a lottery ticket. It's a pattern, if you're willing to risk being ordinary in public long enough to become inevitable.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Moss, Jerry. (2026, January 15). It's a great story. It's available for anyone else who wants to try it. We're not brilliant. We're not unbelievable. We're just two people who hit a nerve. I think it can be done again and again and again. More people should try it. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-a-great-story-its-available-for-anyone-else-162687/

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Moss, Jerry. "It's a great story. It's available for anyone else who wants to try it. We're not brilliant. We're not unbelievable. We're just two people who hit a nerve. I think it can be done again and again and again. More people should try it." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-a-great-story-its-available-for-anyone-else-162687/.

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"It's a great story. It's available for anyone else who wants to try it. We're not brilliant. We're not unbelievable. We're just two people who hit a nerve. I think it can be done again and again and again. More people should try it." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-a-great-story-its-available-for-anyone-else-162687/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Jerry Moss (born May 8, 1935) is a Businessman from USA.

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