There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity – Mohandas Gandhi
The Entrepreneur
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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and […]
If you ever need a piece of replacement china, silverware, or crystalware, click your way to Replacements, Ltd. in Greensboro NC. Somewhere in their collection of 12 million pieces, they have what you’re looking for. Founder Bob Page started his business part-time in the 70s, scrounging up interesting pieces from […]
We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. — Maxwell Maltz
In The Difference Between Big Companies and Small Companies, I briefly quoted the Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman, who was talking about an incident in which he was helping the California school board choose a set of science textbooks. Feynman had given a poor review to a book that others […]
The difference between big companies and small companies is that big companies can do dumb things with larger quantities of money. I mention this to my SMB* on a regular basis, when they wonder out loud whether one of their new plans or efforts make sense. “What kind of marketing […]