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“To be a great investor, you must have an approach, and you have to stick to it, despite the times when it’s not working.” -Marks
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Whether it’s articulated or not, every business is driven by one of two philosophies. A company is either competition-driven or story-driven.
Bernadette Jiwa • Story Driven: You don't need to compete when you know who you are
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Why do so many founders build things no one wants? Because they begin by trying to think of startup ideas. That m.o. is doubly dangerous: it doesn't merely yield few good ideas; it yields bad ideas that sound plausible enough to fool you into working on them.
Paul Graham • How to Get Startup Ideas
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The test of a business man is not whether he can make money in one or two boom years, or can make money through the luck of getting into the field first, but whether in a highly competitive field, without having any initial advantage over his competitors, he can outdistance them in a perfect honourable way and keep the respect of himself and of his
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Jason Fried on company culture:
"You have to find the nature of things. That's the thing I've found to be the most useful tool in anything: trying to understand the true nature of an experience, place, or thing and rolling with the nature.
Any time you go against the true nature of something, you're just battling unnecessarily.
So yeah, figure it ou
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More recently I’ve kept repeating to myself, don’t abandon your vision . Decisiveness is knowing myself well enough to take the plunge, then the rest is all faith.
Peak Decisiveness
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