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"Business ideas are like those flying dragons in Avatar. First you have to find one, let it choose you, then be brave enough to ride it."
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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."

"Entrepreneurs don't have weekends or birthdays or holidays. Every day is my weekend, my birthday, my holiday. OR, every day is my work day. Mostly it's a choice."

"Employment deprives you of innovations."

"Do not waste your time and life, searching for a job. Utilize your special skills to begin your own work."

"The one thing all entrepreneurs have in common is that they started. The one thing everyone else has in common is that they haven't."

"In the beginning I just wanted to survive. For the first three years, we made zero revenue. I remember many times when I was trying to pay up, the restaurant owner would say, 'Your bill was paid.' And there would be a note saying, 'Mr. Ma, I'm your customer on the Alibaba platform. I made a lot of money, and I know you don't, so I paid the bill.'"

"Everyone has a business idea. But few have a team... and very few a vision."

"Any family without an entrepreneur has a limited hope."

"Being an entrepreneur is like being a pirate. Go for the booty and discover new, uncharted lands."

"In business, sport, entertainment and beyond an idea is worth next to nothing. The energy, effort, passion, talent, tenacity, strategy, resilience and resourcefulness to see it through and make something of it is worth everything."
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"Life is a web of intersections and choices. Your 1st choice is to recognize an intersection. Your 2nd choice is to be grateful for it."

"I check every can of Barbasol I buy for dinosaur embryos. I haven't found any yet, as evidenced by the lack of T-Rex screams in my apartment."

"Never before have the tools of value creation been so great and the potential artisans so busy watching the Kardashians."

"I've written for the waste basket so often that we've become friends. He writes too, but it's mostly garbage."

"A product in the marketplace is the result of thought in an inner space and action more than the common place."

"The one thing all entrepreneurs have in common is that they started. The one thing everyone else has in common is that they haven't."

"Let's form a committee tasked with exploring why committees are so ineffective. Then we'll stand-back and watch it argue and self-destruct."

"A brand precedes, parallels, and leaves a path behind. What your brand will say, is saying, and has said matters more the deeper we go into the globalized, digitized, connection economy."
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