“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”
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“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.”
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http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/complex...
“Three rules for a career: 1) Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy yourself; 2) Don’t work for anyone you don’t respect and admire; and 3) Work only with people you enjoy.”
http://www.gurufocus.com/news/119820/30-of-ch...
“In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.”
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“I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, 'OK, I'm looking back on my life. I want to minimize the number of regrets I have.'”
“I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.”
“When people give you their money they tell you the truth.”
“If I'd listened to customers, I'd have given them a faster horse.”
“Business can learn about new conditions the same way a gene pool does. I'm not claiming companies can get smarter, just that dumb ones will die.”
“Take a simple idea and take it seriously.”
“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”
“Fail faster, try again sooner.”
“Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.”
“We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.”
“I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.”
“Quality is earned long after midnight the night before a major launch, pouring over details that no one will notice but you.”
https://twitter.com/capttaco/status/430574690...
“The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.”
“The superior man understands what is right the inferior man understands what will sell.”
“Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.”
“If you never want to be criticized, for goodness' sake don't do anything new.”
“We make silk purses out of silk.”
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“Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.”