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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- Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
- Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?
- Living is different from just existing.
- People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.
- Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
- Do ordinary things extraordinarily well.
- When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.
- Lean brands are the result of continually testing assumptions.
- Life begins when you start something, and blooms when you keep doing it.
- If you’re just starting out, don’t focus on the cheese, focus on the cow.
- What you are seeking, is seeking you.
- Eighty percent of success is showing up.
- I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don’t. It’s the great mystery.
- Gamblers take blind risks. Entrepreneurs take risks while visually impaired and feel their way up and out.
- 1 failure equals 1000 lessons
- Entrepreneur, don’t just read history, write it so people can see the future in the present.
- The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.
- I do not adopt softness towards others because I want to make them better.
- Some people have the courage to bungee jump or even skydive, yet they lack the courage to work for themselves.
- Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do.