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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage,...

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The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. T...

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Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tool...

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A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life—and I've never let it keep me from doing a si...

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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion,'" she repeats, making sure of it. If she had paper a...

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Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

The Sun-Dial at Wells CollegeThe shadow by my finger castDivides the future from the past:Before it,...

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The Sun-Dial at Wells CollegeThe shadow by my finger castDivides the future from the past:Before it,...

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Awake! arise! the hour is late! Angels are knocking at thy door!They are in haste and cannot wait, A...

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Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Sun-Dial at Wells CollegeThe shadow by my finger castDivides the future from the past:Before it,...

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Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

The Sun-Dial at Wells CollegeThe shadow by my finger castDivides the future from the past:Before it,...

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One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motiv...

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Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee; as for the time it did me. The...

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When someone is searching." said Siddhartha, "then it might easily happen that the only thing his ey...

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First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

Don’t play for safety. It’s the most dangerous thing in the world.

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see farther.

The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seei...

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You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve

A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long for...

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Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadi...

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Always remember, child... that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If yo...

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Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

Speed to fail should be every entrepreneur's motto. When you finally find the one idea that can't be...

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Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.

CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so th...

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The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead...

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A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic...

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Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new ent...

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All businesses -- no matter if they make dog food or software -- don't sell products, they sell solu...

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Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you lov...

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There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive break...

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The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have some...

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Disruption isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you respond to what happens to you.

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Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

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There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn'...

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Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

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The business world is littered with the fossils of companies that failed to evolve. Disrupt or be di...

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A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.

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In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

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Insight and drive are all the skills you need. Everything else can be hired.

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Data has no ego and makes an excellent co-pilot.

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Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

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Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

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Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.

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Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.

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Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

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An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.

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A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a ...

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No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.

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You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed ...

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The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.

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Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey...

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The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful ones know that the most...

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You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.

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Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering ...

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Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.

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To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

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No one who ever led a nation got there by following the path of another.

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You can truly have it all, just not all at the same time.

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The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.

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A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.

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It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the...

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You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams...

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Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.

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The customer is always right...even when they're wrong.

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If you can imagine a solution, you can make it happen.

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There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it ...

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Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.

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The joy of disruption comes from accepting that we all live in a temporal state.

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Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the cont...

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Billions of dollars worth of research knowledge lie dormant at American universities waiting for the...

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Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.

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Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast.

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The bounds of human possibility are not as confining as we think they are; they are made to seem to ...

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Sirs, if you are listening and are not acting, it is like a man who is always tilling but never sowi...

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Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to...

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Everything is hard before it is easy

Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you; Be true to your word and your work and your friend; ...

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