(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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Tagged: mark cuban, money, motivation, wall street
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
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Tagged: alan kay, future, innovation, invention
“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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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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I happened to come across this relevant post on on the value of business ideas.
Quote for the day: The most brilliant idea, with no execution, is worth $20.
“Ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.
Explanation:
AWFUL IDEA = -1
WEAK IDEA = 1
SO-SO IDEA = 5
GOOD IDEA = 10
GREAT IDEA = 15
BRILLIANT IDEA = 20
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Tagged: business value creation, execution, founders, ideas, startup valuation
I had no idea Shakespeare said this,
“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we might oft win, by fearing to attempt!”.
The founder of Mint.com encourages you to stay on track.
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Tagged: inspiration, quotes, shakespeare, william, william shakespeare
