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Ive lived in Jakarta and have seen a lot more by living here, and I understand that theres so much more to Indonesia than just Bali and Jakarta.
The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.
What separates humans from other animals is our empathy. With the possible exception of bonobos, we are the most empathetic animal on the planet.
The general rule is that entrepreneurs need the fear of their brand's demise to make it magic. It is too safe to do it as a corporate subsidiary.
The more defensive and angry I get, the more I later discover those feelings are usually just projections of feelings I am having towards myself.
First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction to everyone else.
I think that business practices would improve immeasurably if they were guided by "feminine" pinciples, qualities like love, care, and intuition.
Ninety-nine per cent of what we say is about values. I firmly believe that ethical capitalism is the best way of changing society for the better.
Allow your team to incorporate giving into their life through their job. Not only do employees stay around a lot longer, they do a lot more good.
At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.
What can we be in life? Few figures in history have answered this question with as much clarity and moral authority as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
I already have enough apparel businesses that are either doing well or not really doing anything at all, and I'm looking to broaden my portfolio.
Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.
When money, rather than innovation or value, is your competitive advantage, that's when things get boring and stagnant, and monopolies take root.
When I was 22 years old, I thought girls would like me if I wrote a novel. I spent so much time writing that I was thrown out of graduate school.
[Facebook and Twitter] aren't the real problems in the office. The real problems are what I like to call the M&Ms, the Managers and the Meetings.
As businesses grow, all sorts of things that once were done on the fly - including creating new products - have a way of becoming bureaucratized.
I always try to go where the excitement is, where the best music is. I dont care what kind of music it is. I go with the best artist we can find.
Everyone gets lucky for some amount in their life. And the question is, are you alert enough to know you're being lucky or you're becoming lucky?
I got involved early on in social media - I created one of the first social networks - and for me, social gaming was a natural evolution of that.
What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.'
The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.
I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.
When you have an idea, a classic entrepreneurial impulse is to hold the idea close to you and not tell people and that's almost always a mistake.
I've been doing a hybrid of investing and entrepreneurship, which I think initially I wasn't set out to do. But I realized it fit my personality.
The Columbia Startup Lab is a visible symbol of how the university is making entrepreneurship an integral part of all colleges at the university.
We're not a media company. We don't own media. We don't own music. We don't own films or television. We're not a media company. We're just Apple.
The problem with the Internet startup craze isn’t that too many people are starting companies; it’s that too many people aren’t sticking with it.
The creative industries tend to dismiss technology as just something to buy and not understand how hard it is and how creative it can be as well.
Yes, in socialism the rich will be poorer - but the poor will also be poorer. People will lose interest in really working hard and creating jobs.
I'd rather people talked about the 1,000 most successful French Internet companies instead of the 5 or 10 faces we already know - including mine.
By definition, design, and practice, capitalism is a system that concentrates economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion of the many.
All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
I think every guy that hits his 40s has a little bit of a wake-up call and wants to just keep things real, as they say, and just to push yourself.
Your subconscious mind makes all your words and actions fit a pattern consistent with your self-concept and your innermost beliefs about yourself.
The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.
When you are younger, you worry about what people think about you. When you are older, you realize that no one was ever thinking about you at all.
Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.
The Law of Concentration states that whatever you dwell upon, grows. The more you think about something, the more it becomes part of your reality.
There are certain religions that require you to pray five times a day and I never understood why Christians aren't asked to pray five times a day.
Sometimes we are so busy helping others that we forget about ourselves. Remember, it's okay to say no and to ask others to carry their own weight.
Frankly, the hardest pieces of feedback we got in the U.S. was, 'I would love if more of our friends were on Path. It's hard to get them to join.'
Traditional news is often full of mistakes, but I think that people are getting more sophisticated in knowing what to trust and what not to trust.
Gone are the days when every successful creator got their own New York Times profile. Nowadays, professional Internet creator is just another job.
Today, making money is very simple. But making sustainable money while being responsible to the society and improving the world is very difficult.
If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
When people give you their stated reason for doing something always assume they are giving you a reason that sounds good, but not the real reason.
Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.
The only way to make podcasting a real big business would be if you could somehow get the top seven podcasters to team up and make a mega-network.
In just a few hundred years, we will have to cover the entire surface of the Earth in solar cells if we want to continue to grow our energy usage.