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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.

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

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

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

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 footballers' wives I know, they're teachers, midwives. They want to do something useful. One is working at my son's nursery, on her hands and knees, in Converse and jeans, teaching kids to count.

Louise Nurding

If the composer withholds more than we anticipate we experience a delicious falling sensation we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void.

Levi Strauss

The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket.

Steven Pressfield

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

Jane Austen

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

Christopher McQuarrie

Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at the same time, I want precision. And in order to be precise about stuff, you have to get personal. Symbolism is very boring.

Linn Ullmann

I'm not a dispensationalist - I don't believe in the Rapture. I think it's an unbiblical doctrine, and in North American Christianity, at least, it is the teaching that is the root of much of our subculturalism.

Scott Derrickson

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

Lara Flynn Boyle

My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.

Rodney Dangerfield

Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

Mark Twain

I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you.

James Cameron

Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.

Scott McNealy

Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.

Germaine Greer

We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord's blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.

Vladimir Putin

In the early days, myself and my friends were into punk because we had no money, just very basic instruments and skills. It was more about the ethos and the energy.

Alison Moyet

To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

P. T. Barnum

Sonia Sotomayor has lived a remarkable life, and her achievements will prove an inspiration to readers around the world.

Sonny Mehta

Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique.

Leonard Bacon

We were called 'Three Men Who, When Standing Side by Side, Have a Wingspan of Over Twelve Feet.' We had that name for a week or so. We were also called 'Are You My Mother?' for awhile. We went through a lot of really dumb band names - almost as dumb as Fountains of Wayne.

Adam Schlesinger

Moderation is actually the flip side of dieting, that is, imposed deprivation.

Victoria Moran

The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.

Irving Babbitt

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

William E. Gladstone

Some of my favorite artists are Jason Mraz, Eric Hutchinson, Ben Folds, Bruno Mars, Mumford and Sons, Maroon 5 - their vibe is slightly different from all the pop stuff on 'Glee,' although some do fall into that genre.

Grant Gustin