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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Other Entrepreneurship :
- To rise you must first fall.
- Position yourself with something that captures your curiosity, something that you’re missionary about.
- If you try to be everything to everyone, you become nothing.
- Fail soon so that you can succeed sooner.
- Like everything in life, it is not what happens to you but how you respond to it that counts.
- We all know that if you swing for the fences, you’re going to strike out a lot, but you’re also going to hit some home runs.
- The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.
- Complaining is not a strategy.You have to work with the world as you find it, not as you would have it be.
- It’s what you do in the dark that puts you in the light
- Those who dare to think, and act with a plan, will eventually prosper.
- If it feels like it’s you versus the world, chances are it’s really just you versus yourself.
- No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.
- Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
- There is a hero in every heart just waiting for ignition.
- Be the change you wish to see in the world.
- You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve.
- It’s not about money or connections. It’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.
- Creative thinking poses a dynamic asset to every human
- I always advise people – Don’t wait! Do something when you are young, when you have nothing to lose, and keep that in mind.
- Time doesn’t change things. It’s how we use our time that makes the difference.