Jeff Stibel, Harvard Business Review

Entrepreneurs are really just manic-manic. There is one switch and it is always turned to on.”

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Jeff Stibel, Harvard Business Review

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The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”

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Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

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Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”

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The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

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The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”

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No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”

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Passion makes perfect.”

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That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”

– Anna Pavlova

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”

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The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”

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A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”

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The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

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If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”

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Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”

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Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”

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As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

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You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”

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My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”

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The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”

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Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

– Jimi Hendrix

‎The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

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A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”

– Carlos Castaneda

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”

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Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”

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You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”

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My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”

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By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

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Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”

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Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”

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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”

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That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

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Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

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‎That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

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It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.

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There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

– John Quincy Adams

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”

– Steve Jobs

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

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Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”

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Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

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Jeff Stibel, Harvard Business Review

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