Quote for Entrepreneurs–April 2008

April 30th, 2008 Sean Murphy

I have been trying to select a good quote every couple of days that is applicable to the challenges of entrepreneurship. What follows are the balance I selected in April. For the first part see Quotes for Founders

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“We are not human beings have a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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“Originality and the feeling of one’s dignity are achieved through work and struggle.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Life is too short to work at a job you hate, but everyone has to do something someone else is willing to pay them for.”
Sid Emmert

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“While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.”
Henry C. Link

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“The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.”
Sydney J. Harris

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“It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.”
e. e. cummings

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Nothing happens without personal transformation.”
W. Edwards Deming

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Your twenties are always an apprenticeship, but you don’t always know what for.”
Jan Houtema

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“Leadership is the art of inspiring people to cooperate and enthusiastically take action toward uncommon goals.”
Col. John Boyd (OODA loop inventor)

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  • 1. SKMurphy » Quotes f&hellip  |  June 5th, 2008 at 10:58 pm

    [...] Continuing my twitter experiment from April I try to select a good quote every couple of days that is applicable to the challenges of entrepreneurship. Here are my choices for May: [...]

  • 2. SKMurphy » Quotes f&hellip  |  September 10th, 2008 at 10:25 pm

    [...] Continuing my twitter experiment from April, May, June, and July  I have continued to select a quote every couple of days that I believe is applicable to the challenges of entrepreneurship. Here are my choices for August: “Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.” Joaquin Setanti [...]

  • 3. SKMurphy » Quotes f&hellip  |  February 6th, 2009 at 6:22 pm

    [...] Continuing my twitter experiment from April and May I try to select a good quote every couple of days that is applicable to the challenges of entrepreneurship. Here are my choices for June: [...]

  • 4. SKMurphy » Quotes f&hellip  |  December 21st, 2009 at 12:17 am

    [...] Continuing my twitter experiment from April, May, and June I continue to select a quote every couple of days that is applicable to the challenges of entrepreneurship. Here are my choices for July: “Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.” Gary Snyder [...]

  • 5. SKMurphy » Two Imag&hellip  |  January 21st, 2010 at 11:51 am

    [...] A great quote that  I used again in April 2008 but couldn’t source it. Paul Graham has it in his quote list. But while Houtema is a legitimate surname, I can’t find the one named Jan. [...]

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