Book Titles

The Start-up of You
Adapt, Take Risks, Grow Your Network, and Transform Your Career

By Ben Casnocha, Reid Hoffman

Year Published: 2012
ISBN-13: 978-0307888907
Categories: Career, Networking, Startups

72 Quotes Found

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The Start-up of You:

When you do something, you stir the pot and introduce the possibility that seemingly random ideas, people, and places will collide and form new combinations and opportunities.

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The Start-up of You:

Most of the time you simply do not know when, where, and how opportunity will knock.

152

The Start-up of You:

Make things happen, and in the long run, you’ll design your own serendipity, and make your own opportunities.

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The Start-up of You:

Shared experiences lead to trust, which leads to people’s sharing information and opportunities.

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The Start-up of You:

When you have no choice but to fight, you fight hard.

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The Start-up of You:

If you want to find out how resourceful you can be, shrink your budget. Move your deadlines up. See how you cope. This may make you more resilient to actual hardships that inevitably arise.

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The Start-up of You:

Breakout opportunities come and go – if you don’t seize them, you lose them.

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The Start-up of You:

The lesson is that great opportunities almost never fit your schedule.

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The Start-up of You:

Keeping your options open’ is frequently more of a risk than committing to a plan of action.

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The Start-up of You:

To move forward in your career, you have to commit to specific opportunities as part of an iterative plan, despite doubt and despite inconvenience. If not now, when?

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