(Mark) Cuban grew up motivated by money, he wanted to be rich.
~ from Jared’s Money as Motivation.
Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.
~ from the movie Wall Street (1987), Carl Fox to his son Bud.
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“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
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“We are willing to plant seeds that take five to seven years to grow into reasonable things,” he said in an interview. “You can’t do big, clean-sheet invention unless you are willing to invest for long periods of time.”
- Jeff Bezos, “Amid the gloom an e-commerce war“, New York Times.
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Ken Banks devotes himself to the application of mobile technology for positive social and environmental change in the developing world, and has spent the last 15 years working on projects in Africa.
In his essay, Mobiles in Africa: A Travellers Perspective, Ken Banks describes the entrepreneurial spirit thriving in Africa around the mobile industry,
“..Mobile phones are attached to bikes (two and three wheelers), and even boats, and taken to where the business is. In Uganda these bikes, known locally as boda boda’s, are hooked up with spare batteries and desktop mobile devices to create what are affectionately known as Bodafones”. (more…)
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“Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was and began directing all my energy into the only work that mattered to me. Had I already succeeded in anything else, I would have never found the determination to succeed in the one arena where I believed I truly belonged. I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized and I was still alive, I had a daughter who I adored, I had an old typewriter, and a big idea, and so, rock bottom became the foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
– J. K. Rowling choses to talk about the benefits of failure and the power of imagination in her commencement speech at Harvard. (more…)
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Tagged: big ideas, failure, imagination, inspiration, JK Rowling, video
Quote of the day on Entrepreneurial Judgment by Marc (pmarca),
You’d better not have a lot of doubts about what you are doing because everyone else will, and if you do too, you’ll probably give up.
Of course, an entrepreneur’s doubt avoidance is only a plus right up to the point where it becomes pigheaded stubbornness that interferes with her ability to see reality, particularly when a strategy is not working. (more…)
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