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Passion is the most expensive currency in the world! Start convincing others to get richer. A passionate team can achieve anything. other currencies come later.

The challenge for the entrepreneur is to find your passion and make fear history.

Ideas are meaningless without a masterful execution.

Entrepreneurship is a scary city! NO water- dig wells, NO food- plant trees, NO family- build one, NO identity- prove yourself.

If you you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together. African Proverb

Some people say, "What difference does it make what color the winemaker is that made the wine? Judge the wines off their own merit." Like, of course. And I do believe that my wine is judged off its own merit. But the fact is that when you walk into places and people can't believe that you're the principal or you're the owner or you made the wine, it's mind-blowing to me some days. It's like, wow. That's why we need to continue talking about it.

We__e all been in positions where we felt out of place or not accepted for whatever reason. For me, that__ been my life. I__e always been that person that stood out. And what makes you an outcast is what makes you unique, and you should harness that. Being a black sheep gives you creative license to do sh*t differently.

If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far go together", African Proverb

If you want to glide toward money, you have to make sure your message is clear as a bell, and you need to ensure that you have a unified team capable of communicating it.

If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together" African Proverb

a good product is not the secret to success

The goal - at least the way I think about entrepreneurship - is you realize one day that you can't really work anyone else. You have to start your won thing. It almost doesn't matter what the thing is. We had six different business plan changes, and then the last one was PayPal.If that one didn't work out, if we still had the money and the people, obviously we would not have given up. We would have iterated on the business model and done something else. I don't think there was ever clarity as to who we were until we knew it was working. By then, we'd figured out our PR pitch and told everyone what we do and who we are. But between the founding and the actual PayPal, it was just like this tug-of-war where it was like, "We're trying this, this week." Every week you go to investors and say, "We're doing this, exactly this. We're really focused. We're going to be huge." The next week you're like, "That was a lie.

Even though you read much Zen literature, you must read each sentence with a fresh mind. You should not say, __ know what Zen is,_ or __ have attained enlightenment._ This is also the real secret of the arts: always be a beginner._-__hen you are sitting in the middle of your own problem, which is more real to you: your problem or you yourself? The awareness that you are here, right now, is the ultimate fact. _-__nowing that your life is short, to enjoy it day after day, moment after moment, is the life of __orm is form and emptiness is emptiness._-__ou may feel as if you are doing something special, but actually it is only the expression of your true nature; it is the activity which appeases your inmost desire. But as long as you think you are practicing zazen for the sake of something, that is not true practice._-__he most important thing is to forget all gaining ideas, all dualistic ideas. In other words, just practice zazen in a certain posture.

Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effort, moment after moment, is our way. In an exact sense, the only thing we actually can study in our life is that on which we are working in each moment. We cannot even study Buddha__ words._-__o we should be concentrated with our full mind and body on what we do; and we should be faithful, subjectively and objectively, to ourselves, and especially to our feelings. Even when you do not feel so well, it is better to express how you feel without any particular attachment or intention. So you may say, __h, I am sorry, I do not feel well.

My best ideas come in the shower, where I__ showered with water, but also ideas.

For any creative thought to be contagious, it must first be worthy of a sneeze.

An "eye" on the vision is more important than an "I" on the vision.

A lot of the machines that Google is built on__ommodity is the polite word for them__hey're regular PCs and so they're not always the most reliable.