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"I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done."
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"Everyone has a business idea. But few have a team... and very few a vision."
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"Do not waste your time and life, searching for a job. Utilize your special skills to begin your own work."
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"Self-employed people work where they live. Entrepreneurs live where they work."
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"I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done."
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"People have come to the erroneous conclusion that if they're not willing to start something separate, world-changing, and risky, they have no business starting anything. Somehow, we've fooled ourselves into believing that the project has to have a name, a building, and a stock ticker symbol to matter."
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"The key to unlock your entrepreneurial spirit is your imagination."
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"I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us."
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"The fact that you have started a small business doesn't mean you should be thinking small. Think BIG! Start Small! Expand your territories!"
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"Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want."
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"If you want an incredibly passionate, happy, ALIVE business don't overcomplicate things. Once all is said and done, the foundational elements of a successful business are very simple: respect, service, value and sales. Comparatively, everything else is froth."
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"I don't believe in failure. It is just the opportunity to start again with better information."
Resilience
"I think it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it's like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths and then reason up from there."
Innovation
"The greatest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."
Motivation
"In terms of the Internet, it's like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were more like a [?], like a collection of cells that communicated by diffusion. With the advent of the Internet, it was suddenly like we got a nervous system. It's a hugely impactful thing."
Technology
"The key to making things happen is focus."
Motivation
"I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself."
Growth
"America is the spirit of human exploration distilled."
Inspirational
"I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don't mean hybrid, I mean fully electric."
Technology
"Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do."
Technology
"You want to be a good person, but sometimes you need to have the courage to be ruthless."
Leadership
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