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 :
- Entrepreneur, stay hungry, stay humble & stay hopeful.
- There are no overnight success. It’s a combination of humility, sacrifices, tenacity, failure, and opportunity.
- To soar, we must leave anything that weighs us down.
- As much as possible, avoid hiring MBAs. MBA programs don’t teach people how to create companies.
- Breakdowns create breakthroughs.
- Optimism doesn’t make you more persistent. Persistence makes you more optimistic.
- You’re not born with confidence; it is a skill to learn.
- Entrepreneur, if your distinction isn’t angering the mediocre, it’s actually mediocre.
- Your wealth is a measure of how much you trust yourself.
- Don’t delude yourself into thinking something’s working when it’s not, or you’re gonna get fixated on a bad solution.
- Procrastination is one of the loyal aides of poverty.
- Successful people don´t make noise.
- You can learn a lot from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.
- I think this is the start of something really big. Sometimes that first step is the hardest one, and we’ve just taken it.
- There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen.
- Hard work never cheats, it leads to success.
- Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Everything begins small.
- People who say you will fail are people who have never been successful in their lives
- Living in the past makes your future predictable.