When you read a biography, everybody wants to know the beginning. There's always a part of the biography after they're super rich and famous and they're donating a bunch of money and I'm glad they're doing all that, that's fundamentally not interesting. How many people can relate to that? But everybody can relate to, hey, I have a dream. This is what I want my life to be. Life is going to throw up all these barriers, so how do I navigate that maze to actually get to where I'm going? Everybody can relate to that.

Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Passion & Pain

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Many massively popular artists have followed this path in their own way. Regardless, you must start somewhere—ideally somewhere quantifiable. By which I mean: Who is buying the first one thousand copies of this thing? Who is coming in on the first day? Who is going to claim our first block of available dates? Who is buying our first production run?

Ryan Holiday • Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts

How I Built This: The Unexpected Paths to Success From the World's Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs

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“I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point?”

― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

sometimes as an entrepreneur, you have to over-index to courage. You have to think about the world that you wish to exist, not the one that does exist. As investor, I'm constantly looking at distribution of probabilities, that those outcomes will in fact be achieved.

Invest like the Best • Thriving in Changing Markets

One thing I'm always on the lookout for with people. Are they moving quickly? Are they evolving quickly? In my view, at the end of the day, when you're betting on a founder, especially if the market's not super clear, what you're trying to do is, you're trying to predict that, that particular person will have as many shots on goal as possible

Daniel Gross • Finding Undiscovered Talent

How to Recognize What You’re Really, Really Good At

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