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“Lance: Ido and I think that being an entrepreneur is pretty much the best thing you can do with your life, but the reality is, you can be brilliantly smart, wildly ambitious, and still not be perfectly suited to being an entrepreneur.”
― Ido Leffler, Get Big Fast and Do More Good: Start Your Business, Make It Huge, and Change the World

“For me, for a business to be good, it needed to do two things: improve people’s lives in an immediate way—be a great product—and be successful enough to support a meaningful giving-back program.”
― Ido Leffler, Get Big Fast and Do More Good: Start Your Business, Make It Huge, and Change the World

“Our goal was always to apply our very modern sensibilities to a somewhat old-fashioned industry and develop a new business model that worked.”
― Ido Leffler, Get Big Fast and Do More Good: Start Your Business, Make It Huge, and Change the World

“Know what you’re good at and what you have a passion for. Don’t try to force yourself to do something for a living that you’re either no good at or that you take no joy in.”
― Ido Leffler, Get Big Fast and Do More Good: Start Your Business, Make It Huge, and Change the World

“Today as a businessman I still believe that the most important gifts you can give someone—be it your kids or an employee—are autonomy, a sense of fearlessness about the world, and the belief that they can make a difference.”
― Ido Leffler, Get Big Fast and Do More Good: Start Your Business, Make It Huge, and Change the World

“You’re not going out there to make a sale; you’re going out there to make a friend.”
― Ido Leffler, Get Big Fast and Do More Good: Start Your Business, Make It Huge, and Change the World

“Dream more than others think practical. Expect more than others think possible. Care more than others think wise. — HOWARD SCHULTZ, FOUNDER OF STARBUCKS”
― Ido Leffler, Get Big Fast and Do More Good: Start Your Business, Make It Huge, and Change the World

“Treat your buyer or client as a friend and look out for their interests, even when they seem to be at odds with your own.”
― Ido Leffler, Get Big Fast and Do More Good: Start Your Business, Make It Huge, and Change the World

“You need to be able to let go of a dream that didn’t work and commit yourself to a new dream that might.”
― Ido Leffler, Get Big Fast and Do More Good: Start Your Business, Make It Huge, and Change the World

“Do you want to be the person who owns the idea or the product and sets the terms by which it is sold or the person who’s hired to sell, market, or distribute that idea or product?”
― Ido Leffler, Get Big Fast and Do More Good: Start Your Business, Make It Huge, and Change the World

“Being the smartest person in the room is less important than getting the basics right and being truly passionate about your business.”
― Ido Leffler, Get Big Fast and Do More Good: Start Your Business, Make It Huge, and Change the World