"Ultimately, I don't believe that you can build a company without a lot of effort, and that you need to lead by example."

-- Keith Rabois

#Believe Quotes #Effort Quotes #Example Quotes

“I found that Steve's passion for wildlife and willingness to lay his life on the line so exciting. What you have in our academic arena is a lot of people who are brilliant at what they do-and boring as the day is long.”

Source : "Interview with Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin - Part 4: Adrenaline Junkie?". Interview with Sarah Simpson, www.scientificamerican.com. March 26, 2001.
“Building a mission and building a business go hand-in-hand. It is true that the primary thing that makes me excited about what we're doing is the mission, but I also think, from the very beginning, we've had this healthy understanding which is that we need to do both.”
“You can't have success without trust. The word trust embodies almost everything you can strive for that will help you to succeed. You tell me any human relationship that works without trust, whether it is a marriage or a friendship or a social interaction; in the long run, the same thing is true about business, especially businesses that deal with people.”
“My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. So when we got on a bus, he would always encourage me and my younger brother to get up and offer our seat to an old lady. I grew up kind of liking that, thinking, y'know, that's a nice thing, that's a courtesy.”
“Undertaking initially to protect its citizens against aggression, [government] has often itself become â€¦ a far greater aggressor.”
“Anything made out of destructible matter Infinite time would have devoured before. But if the atoms that make and replenish the world Have endured through the immense span of the past Their natures are immortal-that is clear. Never can things revert to nothingness!”
“We have the ability to provide clean water for every man, woman and child on the Earth. What has been lacking is the collective will to accomplish this. What are we waiting for? This is the commitment we need to make to the world, now.”
“I hike a lot. The view and the air up in the hills are much greater than the hustle and bustle of the city. It makes it all look so silly and small.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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