To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.
To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.

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Other Entrepreneurship :
- Impatience makes even the strong weak.
- You don´t have to win the game, play until the others get tired.
- To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.
- Computers are like a bicycle for the mind.
- Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
- Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Failure is not failure unless we fail to learn from it.
- Only those deals get closed which you deserve.
- Big things start small.
- The road to success is always under construction.
- Winners never quit, quitters never win.
- You will have more regrets for the things you didn’t try than the ones you tried and didn’t succeed at.
- Value your values by demonstrating your values.
- I never fail. It’s just that the people around me succeed more than I.
- Business success is 80% psychology and 20% mechanics.
- Ideas are easy; Saying it is easy; Doing it is difficult.
- Optimism, pessimism, f*** that; we’re going to make it happen. As God as my bloody witness, I’m hell-bent on making it work.
- Bad timekeeping will suck the life out of your bank account.
- Just pick a goal and stick to it – no big complicated secret.
- You don’t get what you wish for; you get what you work for.