To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it’s going to work, it’s not an experiment.
To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it’s going to work, it’s not an experiment.

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Other Entrepreneurship :
- I take the position that I’m always to some degree wrong, and the aspiration is to be less wrong.
- Slow, Steady and Strong
- Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.
- Entrepreneur, become so disciplined that even your distractions become focused.
- Everything begins small.
- You can’t build the road without walking it.
- Peace first, sophistication later. Harmony first, luxury later.
- If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we’ll turn out all right.
- Schooling doesn’t assure employment but skill does.
- Opinions killed more people than crime
- You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology – not the other way around.
- Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
- It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.
- Hope is fuel, not the destination.
- Success and failure come and go, but don’t let them define you. It’s who you are that matters.
- Doing, not learning to do, is the essence of entrepreneurship.
- Business success is 80% psychology and 20% mechanics.
- Success is made of 1% of luck and 99% of sweat.
- There are no overnight success. It’s a combination of humility, sacrifices, tenacity, failure, and opportunity.
- You can overcome your circumstances or you can let your circumstances overcome you.