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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.

Daniel Campos

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

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.

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Who needs such a long intestine, anyway?

Moshe Dayan

I don't eat or wear animals, but I never tell people not to - that's just my view.

Loretta Swit

When George Bush asked me to sign on, it obviously wasn't because he was worried about carrying Wyoming. We got 70 percent of the vote in Wyoming, although those three electoral votes turned out to be pretty important last time around.

Dick Cheney

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Kazuo Ishiguro

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Chris Hemsworth

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Jo Brand

Love the sinner and hate the sin.

Augustine of Hippo

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Paul Bloom

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Robert Zubrin

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Ernie Hudson

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Abby Elliott

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Damon Albarn

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Janet Reno

You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.

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Lynda Resnick

I just always loved stand-up. It's like magic. You say something, and a whole room full of people laughs together. Say something else, they laugh again. The fact that people come to see that and participate in that... I don't know, it's just like magic.

Dave Chappelle

If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.

Lance Armstrong

Successful enterprises are built from the ground up. You can't assemble them with a bunch of acquisitions.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

Follow what feels good in the moment every moment and it will lead you through a most excellent life.

Jen Sincero

One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground.

Sonny Perdue

Love can reach the same level of talent, and even genius, as the discovery of differential calculus.

Lev Vygotsky

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Jeff Nichols