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Quotes

Robert E. Lee, on the press

July 11, 2010

It appears we have appointed our worst generals to command forces, and our most gifted and brilliant to edit newspapers! In fact, I discovered by reading newspapers that these editor/geniuses plainly saw all my strategic defects from the start, yet failed to inform me until it was too late. Accordingly, I’m readily willing to yield [...]

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You Rock

March 8, 2010

Seth Godin rocks it out as usual: Five minutes a day you might do exceptional work, remarkable work, work that matters. Five minutes a day you might defeat the lizard brain long enough to stand up and make a difference. And five minutes of rocking would be enough, because it would be five minutes more [...]

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John Galt Speaking

February 9, 2010

The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it’s yours. But to win it requires total dedication and a total break with the world of your past, with the doctrine that man is sacrificial animal who exists for the pleasure of others. Fight for the value of your [...]

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Hesitancy

March 7, 2009

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the [...]

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Fred Wilson: That’s Impossible

March 7, 2009

“If someone says: ‘That’s Impossible’. You should understand it as: ‘According to my very limited experience and narrow understanding of reality, that’s very unlikely’” – Fred Wilson, avc.com.

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How to build a boat…

January 30, 2009

If you want to build  a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools, and organize the work, but rather make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands. – Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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Creative Aloneness

January 28, 2009

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone. – Rollo May

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Failures

January 26, 2009

An inventor is simply a person who doesn’t take his education too seriously. You see, from the time a person is six years old until he graduates from college he has to take three or four examinations a year. If he flunks once, he is out. But an inventor is almost always failing. He tries [...]

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