A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
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- Our thoughts and our mind-sets greatly affect our perception of what life is really about
- Someday is a dangerous word.
- You are more likely to be successful if you worry about providing value instead of being successful.
- If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far go together
- If only 1 out of 10 businesses succeeds, start 10 businesses. Just sayin.
- At the earliest stage, the only people who can invest in you are three Fs: friends, family and fools.
- Impatience makes even the strong weak.
- If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.
- See the big picture and details of everything in your life (zoom out, then zoom in).
- Most improved things can be improved.
- Fall down but never back down.
- The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.
- Learn from your history, but don’t live in it.
- Give your idea a chance. You’ll never hit a home run if you don’t swing.
- I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.
- Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?
- Don’t die without fulfilling your purpose.
- If you won’t trust yourself, nobody else will.
- It’s what you do in the dark that puts you in the light
- Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get
