patience
the art of waiting
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patience
The fact is, star brands take time to grow. Take some of the small makeup companies we have acquired recently, like Bliss and Urban Decay. When we bought them, they were little start-ups run by their founders—very simple businesses, but with a lot of originality in the products. So now we know we must nurture them until they have some history. But
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100x method —
"the most successful things I’ve done have one thing in common: I’ve done them at least 100 times."
if you want to start a project, commit to 100 iterations.
1. takes you past the dip: the inevitable downturn when you feel stuck/bored/... See more
Pace of Life
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Spanish artist Maider López turned a traffic jam into art with her 2005 piece, “Ataskoa." #Art
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The temptation to look and feel busy is real and ever-present, especially when you’re young and trying to prove your value. Early-on, we fell prey to it like most do. We intervened unnecessarily in portfolio companies to help “save the day” and listened to low-probability pitch after pitch to make sure we didn’t miss something. We had packed... See more
“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter
hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as
much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first
blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last
blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”
hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as
much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first
blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last
blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”
A quote by Jacob A. Riis
Miles Davis // "Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself."
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