"Most start-up companies fail and it is smart public policy to help entrepreneurs increase their odds of succeeding. But, the biggest loss to our economy is not all the start-ups that didn't make it: It's the ones that might have been created but weren't."

-- Eric Ries

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“The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.”
“I am interested in the gaps between one piece of sidewalk and the next. I am interested in the things for which we dont always have a name, and the things that are not easy to articulate - the difference between what we think and how we feel.”
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

Source : "A DreamWithin a Dream" l. 10 (1849)
“I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Biographers know nothing about the intimate sex lives of their own wives, but they think they know all about Stendhal's or Faulkner's.”
“It is foolhardy to make a second trade, if your first trade shows you a loss. Never average losses. Let this thought be written indelibly upon your mind.”

Source : Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1966). “How to Trade in Stocks: The Livermore Formula for Combining Time Element and Price”
“Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.”
“Vitality springs from diversity -- which makes for real progress so long as there is mutual toleration, based on the recognition that worse may come from an attempt to suppress differences than from acceptance of them. For this reason, the kind of peace that makes progress possible is best assured by the mutual checks created by a balance of forces-alike in the sphere of internal politics and of international relations.”

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