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 :
- Build systems for the business to come, not the business you have.
- If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.
- Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
- Fall down 7 times, stand up 8
- We are comfortable planting seeds and waiting for them to grow into trees.
- Eighty percent of success is showing up.
- Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
- I do not adopt softness towards others because I want to make them better.
- Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.
- We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.
- People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.
- You are about to succeed when the urge to quit is the greatest.
- Business success is 80% psychology and 20% mechanics.
- Act NOW on those ideas! As they say, you snooze you lose. Or as I say, if you BEGIN you WIN.
- An entrepreneur in debt is an entrepreneur in business.
- Work hard, have fun, and make history.
- Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.
- Screw it. Let’s do it.
- It is better to die for a dream than to live a nightmare.
- Difficult roads lead to beautiful destinations