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Quotes by Entrepreneur
"Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show."
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"Perfectionism at its core isn't about having high standards. It's about fear."
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"The key to success is to start before you're ready."
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"Your time is precious, use it wisely."
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"I'm anti-tax, but I'm pro-carbon tax."
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"I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future."
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"Stop waiting for permission. No one is going to give it to you."
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"Everything is figureoutable."
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"Fashion is never in crisis because clothes are always necessary."
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"The future is vastly more exciting and interesting if we're a spacefaring civilization and a multi-planet species."
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"France needs to find something that makes it stand out. It's not enough for it to do almost as well as its neighbors."
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"I am surprised by how not-adopted the video reply has been. What keeps other people from doing it, I think, is that they think a video comes across as 'I'm cool, look at how many e-mails I get.' That perception doesn't scare me, because I know who I am."
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"I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports."
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"We can see, so we are always blind to things deeper than skin."
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"Being authentic, and being perceived as such by your audience, relies on your ability to ensure that every decision you make when it comes to your business is rooted in being true to yourself."
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"Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement."
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"Focus on progress, not perfection, and you'll move forward."
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"Democrats' definition of "rich" - always seems to be set just above whatever the salary happens to be for a member of Congress. Perhaps that says it all."
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"I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better. I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself."
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"I like the word 'autopilot' more than I like the word 'self-driving.' 'Self-driving' sounds like it's going to do something you don't want it to do. 'Autopilot' is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars."
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"Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations."
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"I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people."
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"Show up, work hard, and be kind. That's all there is to it."
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"Keep your dreams bigger than your fears."
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"I don't believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and make them right."
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"Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment."
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"If you're not progressing, you're falling behind."
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"I think we should explore the possibility of life on Mars, and make humanity a multi-planetary species."
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"The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced."
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"The antidote to overwhelm is action."
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"My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn't due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships."
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"You may not have connections, or an education, or wealth, but with enough passion and sweat, you can make anything happen."
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"Your life is your responsibility. No one else's."
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"The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!"
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"The most powerful words in the universe are the words you say to yourself."
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"Quit worrying about what others think. They aren't."
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"You can have excuses or you can have results, but you can't have both."
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"Your potential is limitless when you decide to own it."
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"I think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that are against, and I think the reasoning for that varies depending on the person, but in some cases, they just don't believe in climate change - they think oil will last forever."
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"Follow your passion, not the money. The money will follow you."
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"When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world."
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"When you fully commit, the universe bends to meet you halfway."
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"Your body hears everything your mind says."
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"Okay, let's talk about cartoon labels for half a second - some people think anything with a dog or a car or a colorful alien is garbage, which is not true. Look at Big Moose Red. It's, like, a $6 wine with a cheesy label, and it's actually a solid wine."
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"When you change your mind, you change your life."
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"As you heat the planet up, it's just like boiling a pot."
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"Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to."
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"Dreams don't work unless you do."
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"Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth."
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