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Some interesting thoughts that I read on the web in last few days about Customer service, Entrepreneurship, and Success. Read on -

Death is my exit strategy. I’ll be doing significant customer service only as long as I live. – Craig Newmark

Lucky things happen to entrepreneurs who start fundamentally innovative, morally compelling, and philosophically positive companies, creating something interesting and valuable rather than strictly seeking money. – Bo Peabody, Lucky or Smart

People think entrepreneurs are risk-loving. Really what you find is successful entrepreneurs hate risk, because the founding of the enterprise is already so risky that what they do is take their early resources, the small amounts of capital that they have, whatever assets they have, and they deploy those resources systematically, eliminating the largest risk first, the second-largest risk, and so on, and so on. – Jeff Bezos

People we see as happy usually have a way to measure failure. – Silicon Valley Junto

It’s possible for something to “fail” but not be a “failure.” – Silicon Valley Junto

#1. If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. -Betty Reese

#2. What I can do, you cannot. What you can do, I cannot. But together we can do something beautiful. – Mother Teresa

#3. Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

#4. Synergy is not about compromise. It is about creating a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. – Stephen Covey

#5.  You eat what you kill….what do you mean you want a salary? – Larry Ellison

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#1. Success is 50 percent luck and 50 percent preparedness for that luck. — Anonymous

#2. A leader is someone who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.  — Leroy Eimes

#3. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.  — Plato

#4. When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package. — John Ruskin

#5. Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the one thing that he can’t afford to lose. — Thomas Edison

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#1. Most people live and die with their music unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash, Founder, Mary Kay Cosmetics

#2. Success is 50 percent luck and 50 percent preparedness for that luck. — Anonymous

#3. A leader is someone who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.  — Leroy Eimes

#4. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.  — Plato

#5. Be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best – night and day – to make you everybody else. — E.E. Cummings, Poet

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#1. Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov

#2. The more I read, the more I realize what I still need. — Aditya Kothadiya

#3. The cosmos is neither moral or immoral; only people are. He who would move the world must first move himself. – Edward Ericson

#4. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.  — Albert Einstein

#5. Everyone has superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished. — Ulysses S. Grant

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#1. The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. –Alvin Toffler

#2. It is optional to become confident because you are successful, but it is mandatory to be confident to become successful. –- Aditya Kothadiya

#3. Do not try to teach a pig to sing — it wastes your time and annoys the pig. — Donald Cliffton

#4. There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity. — General Douglas MacArthur

#5. The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that is too low and we reach it.  — Michelangelo

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#1. If I ever finish a speech, and I can still standup, then that was a lousy speech. — Tom Peters

#2. To lead men you have got to lead them with affection. — JRD Tata

#3. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change a nation; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. — Dr. Margaret Mead

#4. Respect your efforts, respect yourself.  Self-respect leads to self-discipline.  When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power. — Clint Eastwood

#5. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. — Henry Ford

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#1. Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with. — Bob Wells

#2. There are no speed limits on the road to excellence. — David W. Johnson

#3. Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely
in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" — Hunter S. Thompson

#4. Getting reward isn’t about making only right choice; it’s about practicing that choice consistently. — Aditya Kothadiya

#5. Writing is as useful to define your thoughts, as reading is to gather your thoughts. — Aditya Kothadiya

# 1. On matters of style, swim with the current; on matters of principle, stand like a rock. — Thomas Jefferson

# 2. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. — Samuel Johnson

# 3. If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. — Isaac Newton

# 4. Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes, but no plans. — Peter Drucker

# 5. God will not give you a burden that you can’t handle. If you ever find yourself in a mess, which seems impossible to resolve, take it as a complement. God thinks you can do it.

#1. Turn strangers into friends.
Turn friends into customers.
And then… do the most important job:
Turn your customers into salespeople. — Seth Godin

#2. Don’t be afraid to take one large step because you can’t cross a chasm in two small leaps.

#3. Life is really simple as far as I’m concerned. There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you’re successful. — Jason Calacanis

#4. The person who does not read good books has no advantage over the person who cannot read them.

#5. Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what other thinks you are. –John Wooden

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