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" One of the most important tasks as a leader in a startup is to pick the right metric to track. This is often referred to as the 'compass metric' because it will be your compass for growth. It's important to note that 'compass metrics' will likely change over the lifetime of a business. "

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" As important as hustle is, grit and resilience are equally as important because there's a lot of rejection in our business. "

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" America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger. "

Barack Obama

" I want to put a ding in the universe. "

" We ought to get out of the judging business. We should leave it up to God to determine who belongs in one arena or another when it comes to eternity. What we are obligated to do is to tell people about Jesus, and that's what I do. "

" Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years. "

" After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains. "

" I have serious, serious problems with personas - with unauthentic individuals. "

" Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. "

" It's extremely difficult and very challenging to be a woman in film and television. Just showing up in this business forces you to know yourself. But I learned how to deal with rejection and get tough when I was working as a model - it taught me how to put myself out there. In a way, my time modelling was a preparation for life. "

" Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon. "

" When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals. "

" Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things. "

" Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network. "

" You can put the greatest seafood restaurant next to an average steak house in an urban area, and that steak house will do more business than the seafood place. If you go to the water, you can put an average seafood place next to the greatest steak house, and people are going to eat seafood. "

" I'm in the retail business, not the circus business. "

" Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan. "

" One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do. "

" It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts. "

Will Rogers

You

Costs

" I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled in art school in Dayton, Ohio. I painted for three years, and then show business took hold. "

" Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. "

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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" If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid. "

" Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high, cultured conversations. "

" Making a success in show business is like getting a big promotion on a job. You get more prestige, more authority, more money - and you also get longer hours, more work, and more responsibility. It evens out. "

" Judges should be in the business of declaring what the law is using the traditional tools of interpretation, rather than pronouncing the law as they might wish it to be in light of their own political views. "

" I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there. "

" A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee. "

" Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. "

" In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete. "

" When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change. "

" Paying your employees well is not only the right thing to do but it makes for good business. "