If you're trying to create a ...

If you\'re trying to create a company, it\'s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
 Sam Walton
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

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When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.
“I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.”
“I don’t ever give up. I’d have to be dead or really incapacitated.”
I think that's an important thing to do, to really pay attention to negative feedback, and solicit it, particularly from friends. This may sound like simple advice, but hardly anyone does that, and it's incredibly helpful.