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Life & Business

• "The world is vicious. People are awful. Perpetual terror would be a rational response." "Black Mirror", Season 7, Episode 4 ("Plaything")
• The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. Jack London
• You are a most unusual species. Worthy of a second chance. Paxan inhabiting Deanna Troi while Cpt. Picard saving the Enterprise, Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Clues" (4:14)
• You can never understand everything. But, you should push yourself to understand the system. Ryan Dahl (Creator of Node.js)
• Poverty is resolved with education and jobs. You don’t need to teach a man how to fish, as the Chinese used to say. Instead of giving him the fish, instead of teaching him how to fish, you have to teach him how to sell the fish, so that he eats something else besides a fish. Carlos Slim
• I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance… Unless you have a lot of passion about this, you’re not going to survive. You’re going to give it up. So you’ve got to have an idea, or a problem or a wrong that you want to right that you’re passionate about; otherwise, you’re not going to have the perseverance to stick it through. Steve Jobs
• Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower Steve Jobs
• Move fast and break things Mark Zuckerberg, internal Facebook motto until 2014
• A great man doesn't seek to lead; he is called to it. Duke Leto Atreides in “Dune” (2021)
• People who do not spend five to ten hours a week in online learning will obsolete themselves with technology. Randall Stephenson, AT&T
• You're also adding qualitatively different kinds of people to the team. One metaphor I use to explain this shift is to take yet another analogy from the military history: the marines take the beach, the army takes the country, and the police govern the country. Marines are start-up people who are used to dealing with chaos and improvising solutions on the spot. Army soldiers are scale-up people, who know how to rapidly seize and secure the territory once your forces make it off the beach. And police officers are stability people, whose job is to sustain rather than disrupt. The marines and the army can usually work together, but the marines and the police rarely work well together. As you blitzscale, you may need to find new beaches for your marines to attack rather than ask them to help patrol the existing ones. Reid Hoffman et al. in “Blitzscaling”
• I failed my way to success. Thomas Edison
• Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein
• If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse. Jim Rohn
• Success isn't just about what you accomplish in your life; it's about what you inspire others to do. Unknown