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

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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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One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail.

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If you fall, get back up. That's what life is about.

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Eugene H. Peterson

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