If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful.
If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful.
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- Every once in a while, I find myself in the presence of purity – purity of spirit and love – and I always cry. It always just reaches in and grabs me.
- Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.
- When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.
- Ideas are meaningless without a masterful execution.
- If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.
- An entrepreneur is someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.
- You have to make your own chances.
- You can’t get rich thinking poor.
- Business Plans: It’s about the Process, Not the Product
- You should take the approach that you’re wrong. Your goal is to be less wrong.
- Truth is the greatest marketing campaign.
- To escape fear, you have to go through it, not around.
- Success in life is not for those who run fast, but for those who keep running and always on the move.
- Choose a job that you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- You lose respect when you demand respect.
- Life is too short for long-term grudges.
- It is remarkable how many things you can explode. I’m lucky I have all my fingers.
- Dreams remain dreams until we decide to act upon them.
- When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.
- There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.