"When a business becomes successful seemingly overnight, no one knows about all the months and years you've invested, all the projects you've tried before that didn't work."

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Source : "What I've learned, by skype's Niklas Zennstrom" by David Rowan, www.wired.com. November 6, 2010.

Niklas Zennstrom

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“If you decide to become a veterinary surgeon you will never grow rich, but you will have a life of endless interest and variety.”

Source : James Herriot (2012). “If Only They Could Talk: The classic memoirs of a 1930s vet”, p.103, Pan Macmillan
“I find it is happening in different ways to every industry in the world, and positioning yourself for that, and trying to get ahead of that, is a big conversation right now.”
“Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.”
“We see constituents who are manifestly incapable of undertaking any normal work... Those whose applications for benefits are subsequently rejected go through a period of incredible stress, and some, sadly, take their lives during that time. Applicants who appeal usually win.”
“No, there's going to be no even tenor with me. The more uneven it is the happier I shall be. And when my time comes to die, I'll be able to die happy, for I will have done and seen and heard and experienced all the joy, pain, thrills â€” every emotion that any human ever had â€” and I'll be especially happy if I am spared a stupid, common death in bed.”

Source : Letter to his parents from Paris, December 5, 1919.
“He was a parade all by himself, a burst of dazzle and jingle, Santa Claus drinking his whiskey straight and groaning with a bellyache... Babe Ruth made the music that his joyous years danced to in a continuous party... What Babe Ruth is comes down, one generation handing it down to the next, as a nation heirloom.”
“There's nothing terribly wrong with feeling lost, so long as that feeling precedes some plan on your part to actually do something about it. Too often a person grows complacent with their disillusionment, perpetually wearing their "discomfort" like a favorite shirt.”
“Almost all doctrinal error is really truth perverted. Truth wrongly divided. Truth disproportionately held and taught.”

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