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Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business.
Peter Diamandis
Business
Entrepreneur
Passion
Build
Enormous
Startup
Through
Takes
Days
Efforts
Gets
The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest market opportunities. And that's a huge thing. Solve hunger, literacy and energy problems, get the gratitude of the world and become a billionaire in the process.
Peter Diamandis
Gratitude
World
Opportunities
Problems
Become
Energy
Market
Hunger
Solve
Huge
Huge Thing
Get
Literacy
Biggest
Process
Billionaire
Thing
Nothing is more precious than life... especially the life of your child.
Peter Diamandis
Life
Nothing
More
Than
Precious
Child
Your
Your Child
The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.
Peter Drucker
Technology
Internet
Physical
Costs
Computers
New
Practically
New Information
Information
Information Technology
Communications
Eliminated
Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.
Peter Drucker
Business
People
Money
Other
Defined
Easily
Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.
Peter Lynch
Business
Idiot
Later
Run
Sooner
Sooner Or Later
Because
Go
Any
Going
Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.
Peter Lynch
Business
Sometimes
Easy
Share
Ticket
Although
Lottery
Forget
'Perfect competition' is considered both the ideal and the default state in Economics 101. So-called perfectly competitive markets achieve equilibrium when producer supply meets consumer demand.
Peter Thiel
Competition
Achieve
Economics
State
Meets
Considered
Markets
Both
Perfect
Consumer
Supply
Perfectly
Ideal
Demand
Equilibrium
So-Called
Producer
Default
Competitive
Don't bother starting the 10,000th restaurant in Manhattan. Find something to do that if you don't do it, it won't get done.
Peter Thiel
You
Find
Restaurant
Something
Bother
Get
Done
Manhattan
Starting
The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present - and that's not fully valued.
Peter Thiel
Future
Valued
Idea
Most
Very
Different
Successful
Successful Businesses
Businesses
Fully
Present
When people use the word 'science,' it's often a tell, like in poker, that you're bluffing.
Peter Thiel
You
Science
People
Word
Tell
Poker
Like
Often
Use
I don't think success is complicated; if you do something that works, then it's a success.
Peter Thiel
Success
You
Complicated
Think
Something
Success Is
Then
Works
Any entrepreneur has to prepare for a lot of dark days, and they've got to really like what they are doing, and they have to have a reason for it to succeed.
Phil Knight
Dark
Entrepreneur
Days
Like
Got
Doing
Lot
Any
Succeed
Really
Reason
Prepare
When you really understand who you are, it enables you to fight and believe.
Phil Knight
You
Fight
Believe
Understand
Enables
Really
Who
You've got to love what you do to really make things happen.
Philip Green
Love
You
Make
Got
Happen
To Love
Really
Things
Things Happen
It's not my style to blame anybody else.
Philip Green
Blame
Style
Else
Anybody
Anybody Else
Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.
Pierre Omidyar
Opportunity
Everyone
Born
Equal
Equal Opportunity
Equally
Lacks
Capable
If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.
Pierre Omidyar
You
People
Strangers
Distrust
Remarkable
Over
Get
Initial
Things
I had the notion that, OK, so now we have all of this wealth, we could buy not only one expensive car, we could buy all of them. As soon as you realize that you could buy all of them, then none of them are particularly interesting or satisfying.
Pierre Omidyar
Buy
You
Wealth
Car
OK
Only
Could
Had
Soon
Particularly
None
Expensive
Interesting
Them
Realize
Then
Notion
Now
Satisfying
I developed an interest in supporting independent journalists in a way that leverages their work to the greatest extent possible, all in support of the public interest.
Pierre Omidyar
Work
Way
Independent
Possible
Developed
Support
Journalists
Supporting
Greatest
Interest
Public
Public Interest
Extent
My dad was a physician. As a kid, I remember driving around with him on weekends so he could do his rounds at the hospital and talk to patients. We'd spend time in the car talking about what was going on with them, their stories.
Pierre Omidyar
Time
Remember
Car
Physician
Spend
Kid
About
Could
Weekends
Hospital
Driving
He
Talk
Him
Talking
Around
His
Going
Patients
Stories
Them
Dad
Rounds
The world does not wait for you.
Rajeev Suri
You
World
Wait
Does
My focus is mainly on education. I believe education made all the difference for me, and it is certainly going to make all the difference for other children, too.
Ram Shriram
Education
Me
Focus
Made
Believe
Too
Other
All The Difference
Mainly
Make
Going
Difference
Children
Certainly
If I were to look in the United States or in Europe, in some of the garages, you would have a Bentley or two Bentleys or a high-end Mercedes, and you may find a Smart also in that same garage because that person thinks it's a fun extra car to have. He may have four cars but also have a Smart because he thinks it is cute.
Ratan Tata
You
Smart
Car
Cute
Extra
States
Would
Find
Some
High-End
Mercedes
He
Look
Also
Because
Were
Person
Same
May
Europe
Fun
Garage
United
United States
Four
Thinks
Two
Some entrepreneurs talk of a high burn rate, high advertising rate, and so on, with no outcome, so it doesn't impress me. But an entrepreneur who has that kind of a feeling of responsibility towards his investors is somebody who will have all my support.
Ratan Tata
Me
Entrepreneur
Will
Responsibility
Somebody
Feeling
Impress
Kind
High
Outcome
Some
Rate
Entrepreneurs
Investors
Support
Towards
Talk
Advertising
His
Burn
Who
The government should do its job. The government's job is, in fact, to run the country, to manage the country, to govern the country. And governance is an important thing, not application where it suits one so, to micro control where it suits them on the other hand.
Ratan Tata
Government
Suits
Job
Country
Important
Control
Other
Run
Fact
Important Thing
Govern
Governance
Hand
Manage
Micro
Where
In Fact
Them
Should
Thing
Application
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