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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- I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.
- Don’t die without fulfilling your purpose.
- If you start dreaming you are not running fast enough
- Innovation is the ability to see the change as an opportunity; not a threat.
- Without having a goal it is difficult to score!
- A company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn’t last.
- Success, like happiness, is a by-product, not a goal.
- As much as possible, avoid hiring MBAs. MBA programs don’t teach people how to create companies.
- When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
- If you’re just starting out, don’t focus on the cheese, focus on the cow.
- In business, what’s dangerous is not to evolve.
- My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
- Fall down 7 times, stand up 8
- I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.
- An entrepreneur is an innovator, a job creator, a game―changer, a business leader, a disruptor, an adventurer.
- Don’t buy value-added. Be the one adding value. Create goodwill.
- The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.
- Like everything in life, it is not what happens to you but how you respond to it that counts.
- Strategize yearly, plan quarterly, examine monthly, reflect weekly, act daily, and live #intentionally.
- If you don’t know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?