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:

Starting with purpose and passion is the strongest leverage point for creating a lasting great business.

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Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck:

Because leaders can only accomplish things through others, the best leaders know how to have critical and courageous conversations.

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Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck:

By making a caring, emotional connection, the best leaders go beyond good listening.

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Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck:

You can’t always wait for the business world to develop a clear new pattern – smart adaptation means not waiting to change until you have no other choice.

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Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck:

Smarts are essential, but in the end, entrepreneurs have to be willing to take a leap of faith.

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Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck:

Launching anything new means a commitment to swimming (at least for a while) in a sea of ambiguity.

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Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck:

No enterprise becomes great without an ahead-of-the-pack, lone-wolf leader who dares to disregard conventions.

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Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck:

Make no mistake: intrepid or gutsy individuals are hardly fearless; they are simply better than the rest of the population at coping with, and even thriving in, fear-based environments.

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Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck:

A gutsy individual isn’t someone who doesn’t feel fear; he’s someone who acts despite his fear.

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Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck:

Founders must lead with the vision that they are doing something great. Confidence, passion, and conviction are contagious qualities.

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