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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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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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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It's the romance, not the finance that makes business worth pursuing.

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The business model can and should change over time, as the world changes.

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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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We've managed to have a long career that is still quite vibrant, yet we've never had to kow-tow to record companies who said we weren't commercial enough.

Alex Lifeson

I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.

Richard E. Grant

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Tryon Edwards

Few people know that I grew up in Germany and that my family still lives there.

Michael Strahan

Everything comes too late for those who only wait.

Elbert Hubbard

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Helen Keller

It's not really cool to be singled out.

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For every athlete, the roar of the crowd goes away, and we have to learn how to turn the page.

Gerry Cooney

Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life.

Napoleon Hill

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Tadashi Shoji

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Michael Hayden

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Oliver Ellsworth

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Robin Li

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Sharon Stone

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Joseph Conrad

Make the best of today as you will never have another chance to experience this day again.

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Punishment is justice for the unjust.

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Woe betide the man who refuses to conform.

Eugene Ionesco

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