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 don’t have paying customers, you have a hobby.
- Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck.
- The doers are the major thinkers. The people that really create the things that change this industry are both the thinker and doer in one person.
- Position yourself with something that captures your curiosity, something that you’re missionary about.
- Failures are the stairs we climb to reach success.
- Companies are rarely criticized for the things that they failed to try. But they are, many times, criticized for things they tried and failed at.
- Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.
- Dreams remain dreams until we decide to act upon them.
- I want to put a ding in the universe
- The people who are right a lot, often change their minds.
- A good entrepreneur is a good teacher.
- Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don’t do anything new.
- There is no success or failure, there’s only life.
- In order to get what you want, you need to know what you want.
- Failure doesn’t define you, giving up does.
- The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.
- Be your best, it is enough.
- Make it happen, or it won’t.
- What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.
- Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.