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If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would focus on credit
If you have a business idea that's extremely easy to copy, that can often become something of a challenge or problem.
College gives people learning and also takes away future opportunities by loading the next generation down with debt.
Any effort to make the death penalty speedier and less costly - more 'efficient' - will inevitably make it less just.
Our polling methodology has gotten outdated, and, in fact, it's not really telling us what it needs to be telling us.
We are combining elements like tuxedos and workwear, for contrast; some looks also are based on 30s-era inspirations.
When your product solves a problem that costs customers sleep, revenue, or profits, things are definitely looking up.
The folks who rock Uber value their time; they appreciate nice things with a taste of luxury and loathe inefficiency.
We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
Why we do what we do: that moment when you get to see the future on your computer screen before the rest of the world.
The average person works at fifty percent or less of their potential. Your job is to unleash that extra fifty percent.
Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do.
Whenever you set a goal of any kind, you will have to grow and develop to the point where you are ready to achieve it.
Everything you do to improve your physical well-being will have a positive impact on how good you feel about yourself.
Investigate carefully before you invest. Spend as much time researching the investment as you spend earning the money.
The simple act of writing down a goal and making a written plan for its accomplishment moves you to the top 3 percent.
The very act of accepting responsibility short-circuits and cancels out any negative emotions you may be experiencing.
I’m always feeling death, and that is a part of life. When you know a lot of people, you will always experience death.
A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.
A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.
I've always had a tendency to be much more optimistic about people than I should be. I'd like to be a little shrewder.
Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.
YouTube is very culturally recognized. When we started in 2007 YouTube was very relevant, but completely unrecognized.
A better everyday life means getting away from status and conventions -- being freer and more at ease as human beings.
We don't need flashy cars, impressive titles, uniforms, or other status symbols. We rely on our strength and our will!
Your employee should have superior technical skills than you. If he doesn't, it means you have hired the wrong person.
Sometimes it's better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.
In every business I had ever started, even ones that had totally failed, I had kept good relations with the investors.
If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.
When we launched the first version of Basecamp in 2004, we decided to build software for small companies just like us.
Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.
Digg is like your newspaper, but rather than a handful of editors determining what's on the front page, the masses do.
I usually tell people that everything I learned about being an entrepreneur I learned by f'ing up at my first company.
Sometimes listening itself may not be enough-some people must be prodded if you are to find out what they're thinking.
Sudan cannot afford to be on the wrong side of history. The north and south will have to work together, but will they?
In order to stay relevant, you have to stay open to new trends and keep educating yourself. You have to keep evolving.
Everybody believes in innovation until they see it. Then they think, 'Oh, no; that'll never work. It's too different.'
You can never be an entrepreneur if you're afraid to lose money. It's like being a pilot who is afraid of bad weather.
If the slogan for Google is 'Don't be evil', then the slogan for Uber is 'Do a little bit of evil & don't get caught.'
When I'm raising money, this fundraising, I'm thinking about the next fundraising. I'm thinking how I'm set up for it.
We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
Once IBM gains control of a market sector, they almost always stop innovation. They prevent innovation from happening.
My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School.
Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and willing to cooperate.
The whole secret to winning and losing in the stock market is to lose the least amount possible when you're not right.
If you own a portfolio of stocks, you must learn to sell the worst performers first and keep the best a little longer.
Jeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the Internet is wrong.
I believe that when people say something is impossible, it's only impossible because a strategy has not been found yet.
If there is excitement in their lives, it is contained in the figures on the profit and loss sheet. What an indictment.
Had it not been for 'The Apprentice' and Donald Trump, I wouldn't have met my wife through an interview with 'E! News.'