"Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past."
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"Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier."
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"I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent."
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"The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values."
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"In Ireland we have a very old saying, When you can see the mountains it's going to rain and when you can't see the mountains it's raining."
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"Frankly, I'm more of a researcher, teacher,motivat or, and coach than I am an entrepreneur."
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"I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that."
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"I did what I think a lot of entrepreneurs do. I started putting up a lot of ads on Craigslist for interns."
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"Lawyers can't tell you you can't do something. They can warn you about risks, and in extreme cases tell you that something is such a bad idea you'll need to get someone other than them to do it but the judgment call of whether the risk is worth it is the entrepreneur's."
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"I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead."
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"Never shame to hear what you have nobly done"
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"Courage and comfort, all shall yet go well"
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"I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist , but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning. I always imagined cartooning would be how I got my seed capital. I always thought my other businesses would be the less dominant part of my life."
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"A recession is very bad for publicly traded companies, but it's the best time for startups. When you have massive layoffs, there's more competition for available jobs, which means that an entrepreneur can hire freelancers at a lower cost."
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"Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups."
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"Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been."
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"Plans are great, but missions are better."
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"When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?"
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"You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome."
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"We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose."
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