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- Doing deals doesn't yield the deep rewards that come from building up people.
- Breaking an old business model is always going to require leaders to follow their instinct. There will always be persuasive reasons not to take a…
- Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven't asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind…
- Universities think people come up with great ideas by closing the door. The academic tenure process, where you have to publish to journals which are…
- I talk to our kids now that they are grown up, and I ask them about the experiences that had growing up that really had…
- Venture capital is always wanting to go up market.
- We need to have a better balance between a deliberate strategy and staying open. Because in the end, most of us end up being successful…
- Companies, in fact, are specifically organized to under-invest in disruptive innovations! This is one reason why we often suggest that companies set up separate teams…
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- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
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- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong