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 :
- If you can imagine it in details, it can be done.
- Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.
- Value your values by demonstrating your values.
- Think big to see big.
- I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work.
- Entrepreneur, if you’re going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind
- I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.
- Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?
- There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.
- Failure should be archived in head, not heart!
- People who say you will fail are people who have never been successful in their lives
- I think the things you regret most in life are the things you didn’t do.
- Entrepreneurs are those who transform society through the power of their ideas.
- Your mental energy links to your physical energy. Without it, your mind will suffer.
- Selling is a sacred trust between buyer and seller.
- Details matter, it’s worth waiting to get it right.
- If you’re just starting out, don’t focus on the cheese, focus on the cow.
- Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
- How you handle success says a lot about you.
- The secret to success is constancy of purpose.