Deferred Life Plan: Step one: Do what you have to do. Then, eventually — Step two: Do what you want to do

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The Monk and the Riddle

In this critically acclaimed bestseller, entrepreneurial sage Randy Komisar asks us to answer it for real. The book's timeless advice - to make work pay not just in cash, but in experience, satisfaction, and joy - will be embraced by anyone who wants success to come not just from what they do, but from who they are.

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Startups are unique animals. We take them pretty much for granted out here now, but they are still endeavors that require very different skills from the ones needed in established companies.

Daniel Campos

Anyone can sail with the wind to his back. Startups usually sail into a stiff wind, leaking like a sieve, in high seas, without food or water.

Daniel Campos

In the world of startups, angels invest in seed or early-stage deals, and with their money they lend a bit of advice. They pay for the privilege of helping the company.

Daniel Campos

Good entrepreneurs are passionate visionaries, usually with one or more exceptional talents, but rarely have they actually built a company from scratch.

Daniel Campos

It's not clear that being the first-mover will provide the rash of Internet startups a sustainable competitive advantage. Ultimately being right, or better positioned, may be more important than being first.

Daniel Campos

Most business ideas do not find funding. Even the majority of those that are funded—that is, vetted by very smart people who think enough of the ideas to invest in them — ultimately fail.

Daniel Campos

It's the romance, not the finance that makes business worth pursuing.

Daniel Campos

Entrepreneurs, in my experience, don't like to be told they're wrong.

Daniel Campos

The business model can and should change over time, as the world changes.

Daniel Campos

Business conditions are forever changing. You need to reconsider your strategies and business models constantly and adjust them where necessary.

Daniel Campos

Business is about nothing if not people.

Daniel Campos

Silicon Valley veterans share a tacit understanding that what a startup needs isn't one CEO, but three —each at successive stages of the startup's development.

Daniel Campos

If you turn a visionary startup into an operating company too early, you throw out its birthright. It will never be as big, or as influential as it might otherwise be. It will be much harder, perhaps impossible, to expand the vision later, when performance is being measured, because then there's too much at stake.

Daniel Campos

Business failures are unfortunate but necessary steps in the search for those few huge successes.

Daniel Campos

If you're brilliant, 15 to 20 percent of the risk is removed. If you work twenty-four hours a day, another 15 to 20 percent of the risk is removed. The remaining 60 to 70 percent of business risk will be completely out of your control..

Daniel Campos

Work hard, work passionately, but apply your most precious asset — time — to what is most meaningful to you.

Daniel Campos

Time is the only resource that matters.

Daniel Campos

The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.

Javier Bardem

People might not get all that they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all that they get.

Frederick Douglass

If any reader has lost a loved one or is afraid of death, modern physics says: 'Be comforted, you and they shall live again.'

Frank Tipler

A life without fame can be a good life but fame without a life is no life at all.

Clive James

Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events.

Thomas Lynch

I think, probably, my best asset would probably be my all round game.

Katie Taylor

I never know, when I start writing a story, what's going to happen, or how it will all get sorted out.

Jacqueline Woodson

The tenor of the comments as we got closer and closer to August got dominated by 'Wouldja please get this over with' and not let us go into default.

Nan Hayworth

Movies like 'The Abyss' and 'Jaws' make people think the ocean is threatening. It's not. It's very tranquil.

Graham Hawkes

Designing kids clothes is something personal to me because I'm a mother. So to be able to see my kids wearing something I've designed is very fulfilling. With the kids' collection, we really try to focus on great quality with an accessible price point in styles that appeal to both parents and kids.

Stella McCartney

I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without.

Helen Reddy

The Pentagon today will not allow any of these people who work for the Pentagon, to talk to the media. They have gagged them from talking to members of Congress.

Curt Weldon

This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.

Henry Ward Beecher

At some point, all comics have to go out and be retail salesmen doing door-to-door. And this idea of somebody who totally knows their craft having to get up for free in front of a crowd to work out some stuff they're thinking in their head, still, after as much success as you can get, is really interesting.

Ira Glass

I play golf with my shirttail out. I own a golf course because it's very, very close to my house, and I don't want to drive 45 minutes to the north side of Oklahoma City to play golf every day. I have race horses 'cause I love horses and it's my hobby.

Toby Keith

I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.

Brad Pitt

I'll read on Twitter, 'Do you still do music?' Music is all I do, all day.

Mike Posner

I still have my high school copy of the collected Poe - missing its covers and pretty worse for the wear.

Matthew Pearl

Frankly, any city person who doesn't think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn't deserve my special food.

Joel Salatin

Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!

Johannes Tauler

L.A.'s cool; I had a run with it to where it just pretty much wore me out. I love the weather and I have great friends there, great family, but I really cannot take a lot of the culture. Like Nashville, where everybody's a songwriter, everybody out there is an actor.

Shooter Jennings

If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.

Helen Dunmore

Men may live fools but fools they cannot die.

Edward Young

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

Wayne Dyer