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Top 20 Entrepreneurial Quotes

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34 pointsmakimaki13 comments

Ahh, the inevitable rise of the "top n <something>" lists.

Agreed. This article would have been just as good without the 'Top' in its title.

It's missing a favorite of mine from An Evening (Wasted) with Tom Lehrer: "I thought I would acquaint you with some of the results of my recent researches into the career of the late Doctor Samuel Gall (...) He soon became a specialist, specializing in diseases of the rich. He was therefore able to retire at an early age..."

Is your next start up curing a disease of the rich?

Some of those were new to me + really good. Thanks for sharing.

Some nice quotes here, but also lots of crap from people who don't belong on a list of entrepreneurs:

JFK - son of a bootlegger whose 9th birthday present was $1 million. Never did an honest day's work in his life

Eisenhower talking about planning (lol!) - His botching of D-Day sacrificed many American lives unnecessarily and extended WWII by another year. Asleep at the wheel during the start of the cold war.

Robert T. Kiyosaki - liar and showman - stay away from here please.

Donald Trump (lol) - There's 3 ways to have a million dollars: 1. inherit it 2. work for it 3. Be Donald Trump and start out with $2 million.

Shakespeare - Someone given credit for the work of others.

Anonymous, on the other hand, seems really smart and is quoted all over the place. Who is this guy?

This is completely off topic, but everything I've read about D-Day has said that as much as can be expected in that kind of massive operation, things went alright.

Maybe so, but do you really want to take advice about planning from the leader of the group that came up with the acronym "FUBAR"?

"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable"

Seems like good advice to me, and similar to what a lot of other people have said in various ways.

Agree 100% about Kiyosaki - that guys seems pretty dubious to me:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyosaki#Criticism_and_controve...

Nice link.

In Washington they call a lie "misinformation".

Here they call it a "literary device". lol

I can't think of anyone who is in a place to condescend towards President Eisenhower.

Great list! The comments contain some great ones as well.

number 4 is bullshit

Even though there is some good stuff here, I decided to make a new submission with the really good stuff (IMO):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=89556

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