"The media often glamorizes successful founders and makes their paths seem easier than they actually were."

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Source : "The Advice For Any Woman Who Wants To Found A Startup" by Jessica Livingston, www.businessinsider.com. January 31, 201.

Jessica Livingston

#Successful Quotes #Media Quotes #Path Quotes

“The ability to produce every necessity of life renders us independent in war as well as in peace.”

Source : Millard Fillmore (1856). “Biography of M. F.”, p.165
“I have never stopped considering not becoming a writer.”
“I know when I have a problem and have done all I can to figure it, I keep listening in a sort of inside silence 'til something clicks and I feel a right answer.”
“I came to this earth so that I could find my way back to my Beloved.”
“Sarah: That's not fair! Jareth: You say that so often, I wonder what your basis for comparison is?”
“Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one's anger, the more so when the provocation is extreme. For it is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.”
“I can do this, I tell myself firmly. I can be attracted to him. It's just a matter of self control and possibly also getting very drunk. So I lift my glass and take several huge gulps. I can feel the bubbles surging into my head, singing happily "I'm going to be a millionaire's wife! I'm going to be a millionaire's wife!" And when I look back at Tarquin, he already looks a bit more attractive. Alcohol is obviously going to be the key to our marital status.”
“If I do not practice one day; I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it; if I do not practice the third day, the whole world knows it.”

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