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When you engineer early success, what you’re really doing is engineering hope. Hope is precious to a change effort.
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141 |
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Any new quest, even one that is ultimately successful, is going to involve failure.
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162 |
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We will struggle, we will fail, we will be knocked down – but throughout, we’ll get better, and we’ll succeed in the end.
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169 |
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…culture often is the linchpin of successful organizational change.
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241 |
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…successful people find value in unexpected places, and they do this by thinking about business from first principles instead of formulas.
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2 |
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Monopoly is the condition of every successful business.
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34 |
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The most successful companies make the core progression – to first dominate a specific niche market and then scale to adjacent markets – a part of their founding narrative.
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56 |
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The most contentious question in business is whether success comes from luck or skill.
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59 |
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The biggest secret in venture capital is that the best investment in a successful fund equals or outperforms the entire rest of the fund combined.
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86 |
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VCs must find the handful of companies that will successfully go from 0 to 1 and then back them with every resource.
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