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What is the difference between a parasite and a liberal? The spelling!
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When people tell you that this venerable firm or private investor invested X millions of dollars in that entity and that it is a good investment, be skeptical and stay open to the option of running as far as you can in the opposite direction. We have all seen the biggest names on Wall Street along with the largest sovereign wealth funds on the planet make the dumbest investments ever made. Do your due diligence; ask the right questions, and most important, check out the character of the people involved unless you want to end up being prey to another master of the universe à la Bernie Madoff.
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Remember this... People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours.
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Words are useless without action. Stop fantasizing and just DO it. Be a "game changer" or get played like an idiot.
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Age is just reality we create for ourselves.
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People with higher ratios of positive to negative emotions are more likely to flourish in life.
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Start-ups fail for a lot of different reasons, but one I see repeatedly is ego. It presents as a dangerous sense of self-importance. Or the entrepreneur thinks they are the smartest person in the room who knows better than anyone else and either doesn’t seek out advice or doesn’t want to listen when it’s offered. Such know-it-alls delude themselves into thinking they have everything figured out, even though they don’t. For as hard as it is to elbow your way into the marketplace in ideal circumstances, it’s made exponentially harder when you don’t check your ego at the door.
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My book is not for everyone in the venture capital and entrepreneurial world, and that’s okay. If you try to please everybody and worry about offending anybody, nothing is going to happen. You might make some money, but you certainly won’t create wealth.
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One of the advantages of living in a constitutional federal republic is that we have the ability, if not the duty, as citizens to repair or replace those acts of legislation under which we have agreed to live. We must act when it has become evident that said legislation no longer serves us as a people or advances the principles upon which this nation was founded, one of these being “the pursuit of happiness,” which may only be secured through wealth creation. If it burdens the debt obligation of the government, it cannot be creating wealth. If it does not advance the cause of regaining American competitive dominance in the global marketplace, it is not creating wealth. If legislation and regulation were proposed that taught people how to fish instead of providing fish, then the unemployed would find a way to create jobs for each other. Wealth creation is mankind’s natural objective when given the opportunity. and the tools.
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You shouldn't retire until your money starts making more money than you made in your best year.
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When backing companies, I always look for industries that are ripe for disruption.
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Some people dream of success, others stay awake to achieve it.
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Don't practice until you get it right. Practice until you can't get it wrong...ever.
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Sometimes the hardest things in life are what make you the strongest.
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An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define...or destroy you.
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If riding the bus or the subway doesn't incentivize you to improve your station in life, nothing will.
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Remember... People can always threaten your very life but they can never take away your dreams.
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Female Viagra has been around for years...it's called money.
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Do you want to be super successful? Never appeal to people’s mercy or gratitude... Appeal only to their self-interest & see the results.
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Time decides who you meet in life, your heart decides who you want in your life, and your behavior decides who stays in your life.
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The only reason people hold onto memories is because memories are the only things that don't change, even when everyone else does.
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We're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different.
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A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is always bad for your health.
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At $4 trillion, and roughly only $55 billion in equity, the Fed is leveraged about 77-to-1. They define the word - leverage.
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