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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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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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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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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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May the Almighty Bless you with many more birthdays to come. May each birthday be better than the previous one. Happy Birthday to you.
Anonymous
Where it all will end, knows God.
Wolcott Gibbs
It was one of those goals that's invariably a goal.
Denis Law
I'm a child of the Sixties.
Ian McShane
If you see the sunset, does it have to mean something? If you hear the birds singing does it have to have a message?
Robert Wilson
Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
Bill Nye
I realized very young that I loved reading and wanted to do something related to books/reading for a living. I didn't think of publishing, really, until I was out of college.
Ellen Datlow
The first show I ever played was the International Pop Underground Convention in Olympia, Washington. It was girl night, and I was in Heavens To Betsy. I had just turned 18.
Corin Tucker
A well spent day brings happy sleep.
Leonardo da Vinci
Isn't there a danger with Tweeting, like drunk dialing? Isn't there a drunk Tweeting danger?
Julianna Margulies
If you're playing somebody who is not you, then you can imagine that you are that person. You can feel like he feels, move like he moves, look like he looks - in your own mind.
Morgan Freeman
When I was first starting out, you'd have to bang an old upright piano and stick a mike in it and it would always feed back and you could never turn it up loud enough to be heard and I would beat my hands black and blue and bloody.
Edgar Winter
There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell.
Michael Stipe
Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.
James Jeans
Saddle your dreams before you ride em.
Mary Webb
Strange things have happened, but seldom does it happen.
Henry Bliss
I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.
Helena Bonham Carter
I competed with Yahoo for 15-1/2 years, and the one thing I tried to do over the years was desperately try to get a deal with them.
Ross Levinsohn
Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception.
Stan Brakhage
The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.
Colin Greenwood
Our politicians are stupid. And the Mexican government is much smarter, much sharper, much more cunning. And they send the bad ones over because they don't want to pay for them. They don't want to take care of them. Why should they when the stupid leaders of the United States will do it for them?
Donald Trump
Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.
Lewis Cass
For 'Seabiscuit', I interviewed 100 people I never met.
Laura Hillenbrand
A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
James Dickey