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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- Disruption isn’t about what happens to you, it’s about how you respond to what happens to you.
- Taking risk will have its consequences, so does not taking any risk.
- Fly, if you are tired of walking.
- Dreams don’t get done until they are due.
- Followers accept answers. Leaders ask questions.
- Happy people produce. Bored people consume.
- Gamblers take blind risks. Entrepreneurs take risks while visually impaired and feel their way up and out.
- Instead of visualizing the price of failure try visualizing the rewards of success. You’ll make it.
- If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.
- I like treating things as if they’re small, you know Amazon even though it is a large company, I want it to have the heart and spirit of a small one.
- Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.
- Freedom is the foundation for all wonderful things in life.
- Urgency makes the difference between practitioners, proclaimers and procrastinators.
- Complaining is not a strategy.You have to work with the world as you find it, not as you would have it be.
- The customer is always right.even when they’re wrong.
- Successful companies are started, and made successful, by at least two, and usually more, soulmates.
- Someday is a dangerous word.
- Difficulties come not to obstruct, but to instruct.
- You can’t achieve major goals with minimal effort.
- Customers don’t know what they want until we’ve shown them.