The field seems to require a painfully uncommon synthesis of imagination and realism.
The field seems to require a painfully uncommon synthesis of imagination and realism.
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Other Entrepreneurship :
- FOCUS: Follow On Course Until Successful.
- I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure which is, Try to please everybody.
- Don’t aim for perfection. Aim for ‘better than yesterday’.
- Entrepreneur, become so disciplined that even your distractions become focused.
- We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.
- Wrong partners cost much more money than bad financial investments.
- Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.
- If you always succeed, you don’t think big enough
- Confidence comes from crossing thresholds.
- Normal is where innovation goes to die.
- Vision without execution is just hallucination.
- 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.
- Entrepreneurship is not a title, it is a mindset, a way of life; it is the future!
- No one needs to light a fire under you when there’s a fire in you.
- A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
- If it feels like it’s you versus the world, chances are it’s really just you versus yourself.
- You can win big battles by winning small victories at a time
- Entrepreneurship should be a viable career path not just a last resort to joblessness.
- Optimism, pessimism, f*** that; we’re going to make it happen. As God as my bloody witness, I’m hell-bent on making it work.
- In order to get what you want, you need to know what you want.