Book Titles

Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck
What It Takes to Be an Entrepreneur and Build a Great Business

By Anthony Tjan, Richard Harrington, Tsun-Yan Hsieh

Year Published: 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1422161944
Categories: Entrepreneurship, Guts, Heart, Luck, Smart

82 Quotes Found

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Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck:

Few truly successful businesses start without a Heart-dominated individual at their helm.

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Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck:

The founders who start, execute, and win on big ideas are seldom those who have methodically planned their way.

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Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck:

Heart is about what you purposely, passionately, and insanely love doing, period.

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Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck:

A Heart-driven person cares less about what she lacks and more about what she can achieve with what she already has.

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Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck:

…purpose is about thinking explicitly of how you can change the world for the better and create businesses with integrity, on a values-driven system.

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Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck:

The drive, the movement, and contagiousness of a business derive from its purpose and passion, which are typically a reflection of the founder’s Heart.

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Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck:

Heart-dominant entrepreneurs typically shelve their own personal comforts and needs in order to make their businesses succeed.

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Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck:

Nothing motivates us more, or compels us to work harder, than a compelling or infectious idea.

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Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck:

If we approach an idea or business with Heart, hard work not only becomes tolerable, it turns into a fierce exercise in headlong joy.

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Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck:

Nuance can transform a simple functional transaction into an emotional experience.

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