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You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

— Jim Rohn, The Art of Exceptional Living (lecture series) (1994)
1w ago

The difference between a business and a cult is that a business creates value for the outside world; a cult extracts value from insiders and gives it to the leader. Most startups fail not because the idea is bad, but because the founder confused the two.

7mo ago

The difference between a business and a cult is that a business creates value for people who are not going to work there. A cult is just a business where you worship the CEO.

7mo ago

If the technology you're building with is so much better, why in the world are you just selling it to someone else as a component? Why not just make a better end product?

7mo ago

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