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Following your curiosity might lead you to your passion or it might not. You might get nothing out of it all except a beautiful, long life where all you did was follow your gorgeous curiosity

These men and women show that pain, suffering and hardship are not the enemies. Delusion, ignorance and fear are the enemies

Being a successful CEO requires the opposite mindset from that of startups entrepreneurs. It isn’t about how fast you can run, how many hurdles you can leap or how many impossible challenges you can overcome. It is rather about enabling others to achieve those qualities in themselves

Clear roadblocks and lay tracks, those are the two things you have to do as CEO

As CEO you have to trust your team members know how to do their job better than you do. If not, you hired the wrong people and assembling the right team needs to be your highest priority

With clear strategic goals, it becomes easy to evaluate opportunities based on wether or not they accomplish the main strategic priorities

I saw every opportunity as relevant and useful. But growth was the goal, not the strategy

You can be be effectively opportunistic only when you have a clear strategy that is agreed upon and followed from the top to the bottom of the organization

But it wasn’t my job anymore to hustle nonstop and think that I had to do everything on my own

Especially in the world of fast moving entrepreneurship, it’s critical to resist the seductive tendency to think you have to act now and to overvalue gut decisions