I’d rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person.
I’d rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person.

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Other Entrepreneurship :
- The death of the entrepreneur is solitude.
- Distractions can make a day feel like an hour.
- Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
- Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.
- A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
- Failure is never fatal nor final. It is the very foundation for success.
- Always do what you love in order to love what you do.
- Save to invest, don’t save to save.
- You are about to succeed when the urge to quit is the greatest.
- In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.
- Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.
- Act and fail, but don’t fail to act.
- Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
- Nations are not built on the laws of governments, strong nations are built on the sweat of entrepreneurs
- If price is what you communicate, don’t complain about lack of margins.
- Like everything in life, it is not what happens to you but how you respond to it that counts.
- There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen.
- The good news for shareowners is that a single big winning bet can more than cover the cost of many losers.
- Be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.