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Entries Tagged ‘quotes’

New Year’s Resolutions (are dumb)

Welcome to 2010!  It sounds so futuristic.
Sometimes I make New Year’s Resolutions.  Sometimes I even write them down.  But the more I think about it, the more I think they’re dumb.  If something is worth doing, why wait for an arbitrary change in the date to start?
The tradition of New Year’s Resolutions dates back 4000 [...]

On Entrepreneurship

“Running a start-up is like being punched in the face repeatedly.  But working for a large corporation is like being waterboarded.” –Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator
This quote was from a recent issue of Inc. magazine, but I don’t really like it that much.  It takes a pretty negative outlook on both start-ups and “normal” [...]

On Management and Leadership

I’m a fan of business books and business quotes… and quotes in general, I guess.  Here are some of my favorite quotes on management, leadership, and the difference between the two.
What do managers do?
“Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.” –John D. Rockefeller
“Whenever there is a hard [...]