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Quotes by Entrepreneur
"Entrepreneurs often underestimate costs and overestimate rewards. But the fact that they estimate & still take action sets them apart from peers."
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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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"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 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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"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."
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"Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to."
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"Build a valuable brand by branding what is valuable about you."
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"Those without passion are often passed and shunned."
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"The most honorable part of a network are the hubs, not the nodes that lead to nowhere."
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"The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply."
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"Corporate & personal branding both require storytelling to be captivating. Stories provide context, meaning & the opportunity for relationship."
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"I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving."
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"Most startups actually start down and only go up if they catch the winds of market demand."
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"Confidence is not a requirement for taking action. It's the result of taking action."
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"Entrepreneurs see what others can't, do what others won't, and accomplish what others dream."
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"Create lightning bolt ideas during brainstorms by causing disturbances in your atmosphere."
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"Capitalize on charm by continually captivating your customer."
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"20% of management theories are responsible for 80% of results. That's assuming the Pareto Principle makes the cut."
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"Rebels revel in rewriting reality's restrictions."
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"A personal brand, once local and temporal, is now global and forever. That's the blessing and the curse of the internet with regards to your reputation."
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"The heart pointed to the brain and said with great disdain, "Those who live their lives in here live the lives most full of fear."
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"As you heat the planet up, it's just like boiling a pot."
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"Dreams don't work unless you do."
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"Entrepreneurs see the "no diving" sign and back-up to get a running start."
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"A broad trend I'm completely obsessed with is mobile commerce. Like completely. I'm completely convinced that everybody's going to be buying from their mobile devices. Whoever can claim that space or be in that space, I'm very interested in."
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"My greatest expectation is that I expect more of myself than anyone could expect."
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"I get this buzz every time I'm quoted online. The ego high... yes... but also a Google Alert."
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"Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it."
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"When you change your mind, you change your life."
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"Run after today, lest you run out of tomorrows."
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"Success happens when you refuse to give up."
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"Great things take time. Keep going."
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"Not only should we encourage kids to daydream, but also to jump-in and build those dreams. Dreaming is largely lost among adults drowning in self-imposed realities."
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"Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor."
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"I'm anti-tax, but I'm pro-carbon tax."
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"I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens."
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"A degree helps to a degree, but your work is largely what you create it to be."
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"The best cure for a stick up your butt is a dog to play fetch with."
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"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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"If you're struggling to "think outside the box remember the box is self-imposed. Who says it has to be a box? Why not a bowl of petunias?"
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"A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block."
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"Imagine our imaginations were limited only to the limitless. Still, it wouldn't matter without a motivation to move."
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"I'm considering writing a self-help book and giving people 20 cents to read it. This way, I can be sure they all get new paradigms."
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"Fortune follows those who can create ideas by connecting old ones. Strong personal brands are created when connection and creation connect."
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"Don't simply dream, create. Don't simply create, ship. Don't simply ship, dream."
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