Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the face.

—Mike Tyson

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Real winners do not compete.

—Samuli Puronen

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Accountability is something that is left when responsibility has been subtracted.

—Pasi Sahlberg

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You can make money or you can make sense. The two are mutually exclusive.

—Buckminster Fuller

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Instead of standing on the shore and proving to ourselves that the ocean cannot carry us, let us venture on its waters just to see.

—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Visualizing data is like photography. Instead of starting with a blank canvas, you manipulate the lens used to present the data from a certain angle.

—Paul Butler

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Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

—Frank Zappa

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If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large

—Jeff Bezos

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Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.

—Kevin Kelly

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You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.

—René Daumal

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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

—Abraham Lincoln

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A man with a conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point.

—Leon Festinger

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I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.

—David Ogilvy

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Just because you were born in a stable doesn’t make you a horse.

—Kevin Rowland

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Everyone has a plan until they’ve been hit.

—Joe Louis

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Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the face.

Real winners do not compete.

Accountability is something that is left when responsibility has been subtracted.

You can make money or you can make sense. The two are mutually exclusive.

Instead of standing on the shore and proving to ourselves that the ocean cannot carry us, let us venture on its waters just to see.

Visualizing data is like photography. Instead of starting with a blank canvas, you manipulate the lens used to present the data from a certain angle.

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large

Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

A man with a conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point.

I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.

Just because you were born in a stable doesn’t make you a horse.

Everyone has a plan until they’ve been hit.

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