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 :
- Choose a job that you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.
- Failures are the stairs we climb to reach success.
- Sometimes we measure things and see that in the short term they actually hurt sales, and we do it anyway.
- If you don’t love it, you’re going to fail.
- Life is too fragile and valuable to be spent doing something you hate.
- There is a hero in every heart just waiting for ignition.
- Dreams become nightmares when dreams become jobs.
- Success in life is not for those who run fast, but for those who keep running and always on the move.
- What you are seeking, is seeking you.
- I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the nonsuccessful ones is pure perseverance.
- When we are connected to the source, we will not be afraid of any task set before us.
- A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.
- Passion, Patience, and Persistence are the ingredients to be an entrepreneur.
- Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.
- Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast.
- Innovation is the ability to see the change as an opportunity; not a threat.
- To be a great business person, you must be a great observer.
- There’s a single path to success. Yours.
- Don’t aim for perfection. Aim for ‘better than yesterday’.