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Quotes by Entrepreneur
"Entrepreneurs see the "no diving" sign and back-up to get a running start."
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"A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you're probably under a restraining order."
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"Those without passion are often passed and shunned."
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"Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something and give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing."
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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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"A degree helps to a degree, but your work is largely what you create it to be."
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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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"Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor."
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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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"I surround myself with books when I write, thus surrounding myself with writers... only they don't critique me and then get up for coffee."
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"Rebels revel in rewriting reality's restrictions."
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"Unwavering incremental change can create remarkable and monumental results."
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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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"You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place."
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"If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive."
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"Do billboard salesmen record their sales on charts? If so, who's at the top of the billboard charts for billboard sales?"
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"You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box."
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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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"The smell of new office supplies is so satisfying while being kicked out of Staples for inappropriate behavior with a file folder is so embarrassing."
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"Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives."
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"There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their success rate, but you have to take risks."
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"I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company."
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"It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will."
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"If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion."
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"The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable."
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"The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative."
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"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."
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"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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"Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success."
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"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."
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"I think it matters whether someone has a good heart."
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"If you look at space companies, they've failed either because they've had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think."
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"Entrepreneurs don't ask for permission. They act per a mission."
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"Entrepreneurs see what others can't, do what others won't, and accomplish what others dream."
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"The only personal branding consultant who can ever hope to have a clear understanding of you and your value can be found in the mirror."
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"You shouldn't do things differently just because they're different. They need to be better."
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"I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you're like, 'Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?'"
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"There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What's the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing."
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"The fundamental good of society is not the state, it's not the politicians, it's the people."
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"I'm glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That's cool."
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"A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It's a gasoline car with slightly better mileage."
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"I don't care about being rich. I care about making an impact."
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"I think the world will be a much better place if we put our energy towards important things."
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"The reality is that very few people end up doing something that changes the world."
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"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."
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"Jean-Baptiste Say may have coined the term 'entrepreneur' but he totally missed the opportunity to put it on a t-shirt and sell it."
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"If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman."
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"The key to making things happen is focus."
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