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“I could make a better bar than this.” I call that moment “the epiphany.” Clif Bar exists because I wanted to make a better product for myself and for my friends.
“I believe that our epiphanies or intuitive insights often reflect who we are, or what we are capable of doing, in unexpected ways.”
― Raising the Bar: Integrity and Passion in Life and Business: The Story of Clif Bar Inc.
― Raising the Bar: Integrity and Passion in Life and Business: The Story of Clif Bar Inc.
“Successful entrepreneurs take who they are and what they already know and create surprising combinations.”
― Raising the Bar: Integrity and Passion in Life and Business: The Story of Clif Bar Inc.
― Raising the Bar: Integrity and Passion in Life and Business: The Story of Clif Bar Inc.
“Often, for me, the best ideas come out of extreme situations in unknown terrain, whether in cycling or in business. Pushing beyond what I think I can do creates an opening for new ideas.”
― Raising the Bar: Integrity and Passion in Life and Business: The Story of Clif Bar Inc.
― Raising the Bar: Integrity and Passion in Life and Business: The Story of Clif Bar Inc.
“Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.”
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
“In a small application, poor design is survivable. Even if everything is connected to everything else, if you can hold it all in your head at once, you can still improve the application. The problem with poorly designed small applications is that if they are successful, they grow up to be poorly designed big applications.”
― Practical Object-Oriented Design: An Agile Primer Using Ruby
― Practical Object-Oriented Design: An Agile Primer Using Ruby
Ignacio’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ignacio’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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255 books
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391 books
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141 books
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80 books
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47 books
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166 friends
49 books
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