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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..

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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.
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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.
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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.
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Good entrepreneurs are passionate visionaries, usually with one or more exceptional talents, but rarely have they actually built a company from scratch.
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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.
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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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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.
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It's the romance, not the finance that makes business worth pursuing.
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Entrepreneurs, in my experience, don't like to be told they're wrong.
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The business model can and should change over time, as the world changes.
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Business conditions are forever changing. You need to reconsider your strategies and business models constantly and adjust them where necessary.
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Business is about nothing if not people.
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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.
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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.
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Business failures are unfortunate but necessary steps in the search for those few huge successes.
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Work hard, work passionately, but apply your most precious asset — time — to what is most meaningful to you.
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Time is the only resource that matters.
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We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
Dale Carnegie
With young people, it's how brassy and flashy can you be. But you get a bit older, it's about how restrained can you be. You have to feel it all, think it all, but you don't have to play it - it's just gotta be there, and if the story's good and the script's good, people will see it.
Robert Taylor
When I was young, clothes were really just about what fit, because Ashley and I were so tiny. So I understood fit before I understood style.
Mary-Kate Olsen
Say yes. You'll figure it out afterward.
Tina Fey
Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
Red Buttons
I love 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' That was like the only black book we read in high school.
Junot Diaz
Congresswomen are congresswomen - you are, sorry. And for women who want to be congressmen, there's a screw loose in their head. I'm proud of being a woman. I think 'congresswoman' is the appropriate term, and 'Madame chair' is just fine with me.
Linda Sanchez
I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.
John Sculley
We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.
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Tamra Davis
All boxers are different, and we all approach the fights in different ways.
Miguel Cotto
The way that light hits objects in life, three-dimensional objects before you photograph them, is really the story of photography.
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The world you live in is not a given; much of what is best in it has been built through the struggles of passionate activists over the last centuries. They won us many freedoms and protected many beauties. Count those gifts among your growing heap.
Rebecca Solnit
Forgetting is the only revenge and the only forgiveness.
Jorge Luis Borges
In the past I've worked with directors who saw very much their scene in their head and knew exactly how they were going to cut it.
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Every human being makes mistakes.
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The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station in New York City to play disco in the late '70s.
Michael Rapaport
Monetary policy causes booms and busts.
Edward C. Prescott
There are a few really fantastic stories left, and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find even new ones.
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Discovering I'm gay just sort of happened much later in life.
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Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
Nikolai Berdyaev
When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives.
Nancy O'Dell
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called games.
W. H. Auden
I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary.
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