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“The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job.” – Michael Gerber
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“If you want to be inventive — you have to be willing to fail.” – Jeff Bezos
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“Purpose is a soft virtue — but it’s what gives you steel in your spine.” – Rich Karlgaard
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“The challenge is not just to build a company that can endure; but to build one that is worthy of enduring.” – Jim Collins
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“Monotony is the awful reward of the careful.” – A. G. Buckham
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“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” – Bill Gates
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“Don’t treat your customers like a bunch of purses and wallets.” – Chris Brogan
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“There are a thousand excuses for failure, but never a good reason.” – Mark Twain
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“Nine out of ten businesses fail; so I came up with a foolproof plan — create ten businesses.” – Robert Kiyosaki
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“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
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“I’m not a businessman — I’m a business, man.” – Jay-Z
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“If plan “A” fails — remember you have 25 letters left.” – Chris Guillebeau
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“We make a living by what we get. But we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
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“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win — you’re still a rat.” – Lily Tomlin
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“You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.” – Walt Disney
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“Believe that you will succeed — and you will.” – Dale Carnegie
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“Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.” – Og Mandino
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“As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.” – Donald Trump
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“There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.” – Roger Staubach
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“Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.” – Napoleon Hill
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“Being great at everything is not an actionable message.” – Floris Maljers
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“Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom.” – General George Patton
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“If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.” – Benjamin Franklin
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“Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.” – Steve Jobs
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“It’s not about how to get started; it’s about how to get noticed.” – Steve Case
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“A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are for.” – John Shedd
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“Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.” — Apostle Paul
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“If I find 10,000 ways
something won’t work, I haven’t failed. I am not discouraged, because
every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.” – Thomas Edison
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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
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“Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” – Richard Branson
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“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn
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“If we don’t allow ourselves to make mistakes, we will never invest in things that are radical.” – Jeff Clavier
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“The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.” - Nolan Bushnell
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“Success is one thing — but impact is another.” – Ray Lewis
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“I own my business. My business doesn’t own me.” – Cherie Ve Ard
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“Nothing will work unless you do.” – Maya Angelou
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“Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein
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“You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.” – John Lennon
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“If you have any more than three priorities; you have no priorities.” – Maggie Fox
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“A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.” – John C. Maxwell
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“Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.” – Theodore Roosevelt
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“In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.” – David Ogilvy
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“Success is doing what you want, where you want, when you want, with whom you want and as much as you want.” – Tony Robbins
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“If you don’t have a competitive advantage — don’t compete.” – Jack Welch
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“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” – John Wayne
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“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” – Zig Ziglar
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“Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.” – Napoleon Hill
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“If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.” – Mario Andretti
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“Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” – Steve Jobs
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“Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.”— – Henry David Thoreau
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“Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.” – Benjamin Franklin
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“Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.” – W. Clement Stone
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“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein
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“Do or do not. There is no try.” – Yoda
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“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” – Abraham Lincoln
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“Capitalism will save us.” – Steve Forbes
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