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Quotes by Entrepreneur
"Never underestimate the collective strength of your weakest connections."
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"Show up, work hard, and be kind. That's all there is to it."
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"The most powerful words in the universe are the words you say to yourself."
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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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"It is possible for a small group of people to change the world."
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"When you take care of yourself, you take care of the world."
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"If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are ok, nurture the sapling, and work out what might potentially stop it from growing all the way along. Anything that breaks it at any point stops that growth."
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"I could go and buy one of the islands in theBahamas and turn it into my personal fiefdom, but I am much more interested in trying to build andcreate a new company."
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"No one is you, and that is your superpower."
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"Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations."
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"I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is tremendous growth potential for business intelligence."
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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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"If you really want to dominate the competition and make big bucks, you've got to be the best. Do that, be that, and no one will be able to touch you. With one exception. Someone with less passion and talent and poorer content can totally beat you if they're willing to work longer and harder than you are. Hustle is it."
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"I don' believe in perfection. Perfection means that nothing changes."
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"The key to success is to start before you're ready."
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"Everything you dream of is on the other side of fear."
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"Part of my soul goes into each quote I write. A book of my quotes can be yours for just $19.99."
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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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"Your life is your responsibility. No one else's."
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"As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving."
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"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."
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"Quit worrying about what others think. They aren't."
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"You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other."
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"An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us."
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"I'm concerned a little bit with the culture of celebrating the fundraise. My dad taught me that when you borrow money it's the worst day of your life."
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"You want to be a good person, but sometimes you need to have the courage to be ruthless."
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"Follow your passion, not the money. The money will follow you."
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"I'm friends with a guy who is friends with a former Playboy model. So I guess you could say I'm 1 degree away from 212 degrees."
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"Discipline is remembering what you want."
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"When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals."
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"Metal business cards are a good investment. Especially if you were to meet Magneto. He would have no other choice but to be attracted to you."
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"The world needs that special gift that only you have."
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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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"Your future self is created by your present actions."
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"If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste."
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"Small things done consistently in strategic places create major impact."
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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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"You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet."
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"If your personal brand were at a trade show alongside several thousand others, how would you fare? Now scale that to the global economy."
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"People are more comfortable learning about wine because now they can just Google, you know, 'Soave,' and say, 'Oh, O.K., cool'."
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"Keep your dreams bigger than your fears."
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"Contributors and distributors tend to do better at personal branding than takers and fakers."
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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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"Everyone breathing is broken. Keep breathing light into them until the stained glass collage takes your breath away."
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"When I first tried a sensory deprivation tank, people thought I had lost my mind. In fact, I had found it."
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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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"My best ideas come in the shower, where I'm showered with water, but also ideas."
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"There's been a lot written on the topic of minimalism. But I still believe in it."
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