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:

Successful companies are vigilant companies. They never rest. They never exhale.

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Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck:

Whether it is serendipitous timing, a chance encounter, or a concept that ignites a deep need consumers never realized they had, Luck will always play a role in the business journey.

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Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck:

Success, money, and respect can lead to arrogance (just ask Icarus), so it is important to temper power with humility.

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Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck:

Luck is more about the right attitude and right relationships than anything else.

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Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck:

…the more people in whose path you have placed yourself, the more opportunities will come your way.

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Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck:

People can become more creative, and almost by definition need to be, when limitations are put on them.

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Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck:

If you are oblivious to the risks involved in a given situation, your apprehension about succeeding or not succeeding will fall accordingly. It is hard to be afraid of what you don’t know.

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Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck:

…an unfixed mind free of biases, preconceptions, judgments, criticisms, and expectations is therefore alive and awake to wonder, observe, process, and innovate. – Shunryu Suzuki

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Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck:

There is often an underlying quiet confidence in those who display humility, and a loud insecurity in those who display arrogance.

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Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck:

Fact: If you focus continuously on improving yourself, you will create more, and luckier, opportunities.

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