The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure. Eric Ries Read Quote
I’m a father; I’m a friend. I think I’ve got the biggest heart in the world. A lot of times, that’s not a good thing. It’s a gift and a curse. Allen Iverson Read Quote
At first, whenever I first got into the UFC, I was like, ‘oh my God, I’m in the UFC.’ When you come from where I came from, being in the UFC basically meant I was on top of the world. Derrick Lewis Read Quote
I had a standup act, and I ended up turning it into something that was really watered down and accessible. Something that went from scary and threatening to something that was almost to the point of being corny. Bobcat Goldthwait Read Quote
I think dead humans rising from their graves with little to no sense of who they were in their past lives to mindlessly roam the earth consigning others to the same fate would be a bit depressing. Alfred Enoch Read Quote
We have to reduce the burden placed on our economy by years of deficits and debt. Jack Lew Read Quote
I think history shows that countries have to have some kind of a threshold level of economic success before they begin to have the means and the will to focus on the environment. Henry Paulson Read Quote
Moreover, the abundance of chemical compounds and their importance in daily life hindered the chemist from investigating the question, in what does the individuality of the atoms of different elements consist. Johannes Stark Read Quote
I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics. Edmund Hillary Read Quote
