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4,407 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“An entrepreneur is someone who, almost artistically, designs a living entity which embodies the values, beliefs, and ambitions of the creator.”
— Jake Lodwick, thoughtcatalog.com
Tagged: Creation, Entrepreneurship
“The luxury privilege of the next twenty years will be to leave the city. Not as its leashed servant in a suburb, but to wherever one wants.”
— Jason Fried, Remote: Office Not Required
Tagged: Cities, Luxury, Work
“The U.S.-China relationship is still full of challenges. We are two large, complex nations with profoundly different histories, political systems, and outlooks, whose economies and futures have become deeply entwined. This isn't a relationship that fits neatly into categories like friend or rival, and it may never. We are sailing in uncharted waters. Staying on course and avoiding the shoals and whirlpools requires both a true compass and the flexibility to make frequent course corrections, including sometimes painful trade-offs. If we push too hard on one front, we may jeopardize another. By the same token, if we are too quick to compromise or accommodate, we may invite aggression. With all these elements to consider, it can be easy to lose sight of the fact that, across the divide, our counterparts have their own pressures and imperatives.”
— Hillary Clinton, Hard Choices
Tagged: China
“Salespeople with the highest annual revenue are those who are the most motivated to help their customers and coworkers; the engineers with the highest productivity and fewest errors are those who do more favors for colleagues than they receive. The highest achieving negotiators are those who focus not only on their own goals, but also on helping their counterparts succeed. Grant also cites research indicating that companies led by CEOs who are 'takers' end up having more fluctuating, volatile returns.”
— Arianna Huffington, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder
Tagged: Business
“If you truly believe in the potential of your company 
to change the world for the better, there's no excuse for settling for an acquisition. An acquisition is the end 
of a dream. Today's titans push the ideal of acquisition 
because they're afraid of future competitors. Google knows that its biggest threat could come from two grad students, the Larry and Sergey of 2013. If you're an entrepreneur who's been seduced by the dream of acquisition, you're basically giving up before you even try. It's OK to sell your 
company if you're honest about it: 'This didn't work out, so we're selling.' 
But there's a dishonesty among many entrepreneurs. They say, 'Our mission 
will continue' or 'Nothing will change.' In fact, the mission was lost, and 
everything will change.”
— Jake Lodwick, thoughtcatalog.com
Tagged: Acquisitions, Business, Google
“I do not want to be interesting, I want to be good.”
— Mies Van Der Rohe, Philip Johnson: Life and Work
Tagged: Against Decoration
“Minimalism is not a style, it is an attitude, a way of being. It's a fundamental reaction against noise, visual noise, disorder, vulgarity. Minimalism is the pursuit of the essence of things, not the appearance. It is the persistent search for purity, the search for serenity, for silence as a presence, for the thickness of spaces, for space as immensity. Minimalism is beyond time - ­it is timelessness, it is noble and simple materials, it is the stillness of perfection. It has to be the being itself, uncovered by useless crusts, not naked but completely defined by itself, by its being.”
— Massimo Vignelli, claudiosilvestrin.eu
Tagged: Against Decoration, Minimalism
“Darling, just change the channel. You are in control of the clicker. Don't replay the bad, scary movie.”
— Elli Stassinopoulos, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder
Tagged: Control, Own Your Happiness
“Nature expects a full-grown man to accept the two black voids, fore and aft, as stolidly as he accepts the extraordinary visions in between. Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.”
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Tagged: Growing Up, Imagination
“Never fall in love with a deal. A deal is just a deal. There will always be other deals and other opportunities. No deal is a must-do deal. If it is, you are at the mercy of the party sitting across the table and—trust me—they will know this perfectly well. In that case, your goose is cooked and your future will already be in their hands.”
— Felix Dennis , The Narrow Road: A Brief Guide to the Getting of Money
Tagged: Business, Negotiation