Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process.
TOM PETERSThe worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
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The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
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Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she’d added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community.
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I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
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The worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
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Now that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.
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Business ceases to be work when you’re chasing a dream that has engorged you. (“Work should be more fun than fun” – Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn’t there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.
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Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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Hire disrespectful people.
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Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated…they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.
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Hire attitude train skills.
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Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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