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Intense, burning desire is the motivational force that enables you to overcome any obstacle and achieve almost any goal
The primary reason for underachievement and failure is that the great majority of people don't decide to be successful.
When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up.
The reason for living is to have great relationships, to have people you love and respect and who love and respect you.
One time, I was going to be in L.A. for 10 days for a business conference, and I took eight different pairs of sandals.
If you look at Adele, the reason she did so well was she created great music. It wasn't about a clever marketing trick.
Entrepreneurship is usually about people executing in the face of other folks telling them that it's not going to work.
You can’t focus on what everyone else is doing — it has to be about what’s really broken and what you can do to fix it.
Using the Lean Startup approach, companies can create order not chaos by providing tools to test a vision continuously.
A solid process lays the foundation for a healthy culture, one where ideas are evaluated by merit and not by job title.
Every time you start a company - and I've started five or six - you have the opportunity to screw up in whole new ways.
I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty.
The only investment I ever made which has paid consistently increasing dividends is the money I have given to the Lord.
Even if you're a relatively small player in search, that can still mean a company that's worth several billion dollars.
I like to think of myself as a leader whose door is always open. But I recently learned that an open door isn't enough.
The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.
The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.
Too often, the music business allowed third-party companies to innovate for us - and that simply does not work anymore.
Seeing young people caring about sound again and realizing that it's not cool to not have good sound, that means a lot.
My father was incredible: a longshoreman; my mother was a secretary. Very 'go to work' people. That's how I saw things.
You need to find people that are drawn to the idea that you build, and they end up taking it and making it even better.
An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.
Those folks who try to impose analog rules on digital content will find themselves on the wrong side of the tidal wave.
I urge telecommunications regulators to develop a commercial strategy for delivering effective access to the continent.
In order to do a good job of those things that we decide to do, we must eliminate all of the unimportant opportunities.
Our whole goal is to basically feature publishers' content and get people to click over to that content on the website.
It is very difficult for any dictator or any incumbent to falsify the results of an election and just get away with it.
If you really want you people to innovate, buy a science fiction book, tear off the covers, and tell them it's history.
We need more pessimism that the future might be a lot worse, and we need more optimism that the future might be better.
I think it's always good for gay people to come out, but it's also understandable why people might choose not to do so.
One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they’re doing as something that’s going to be the whole world.
In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results.
Among the songs I love best were those that I see as historically important, which help to change and develop my taste.
Hank Williams was one of the greatest writers of all time, and it's very sad that his career lasted for only six years.
Startups don’t fail because they lack a product; they fail because they lack customers and a profitable business model.
If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.
My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
Any rap record from 1989 to 1999, besides [ones on] Death Row, we did promotions for it. We had our hand in everything.
Mastermind and collaborate with other smart entrepreneurs if they have futures that are even bigger than their present.
The benefit to building a startup is that customers don't have the same kind of friction when they adopt new technology.
Growing up, my religious identity was primarily one of confusion. Nothing was pushed on me; nothing was overtly offered.
I'm never the smartest guy in the room. I'm willing to work harder than most people around me, come earlier, stay later.
Resolve to pay any price or make any sacrifice to get into the top ten percent of your field. That payoff is incredible!
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Single-minded concentration in the direction of your dreams intensifies your desires and increases your self-confidence.
You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.
Keep your sales pipeline full by prospecting continuosly.Always have more people to see than you have time to see them .
The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on.
The better organized you are in the simple things, the more spontaneous and free you can be in the ore important things.
In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though - Lady Gaga and Britney Spears.