Hired talented people as found, not needed. - John D

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee, and I pay more for that ability than any other under the sun. - John

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee, and I pay more for that ability than any other under the sun. - John D

When you are sure they have character and think they have ability - is to take them to a deep place, throw them in and make them sink or swim - John D

Often the best way to develop workers - when you are sure they have character and think they have ability - is to take them to a deep place, throw them in and make them sink or swim. - John D

A young man who wants to succeed in business does not require chemistry or physics. He can always hire scientists. - John D

I never felt the need of scientific knowledge, have never felt it. A young man who wants to succeed in business does not require chemistry or physics. He can always hire scientists. - John D

I charted my course by figures, nothing but figures. - John D

Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things... fail because we lack concentration - John D

Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things... fail because we lack concentration - the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else? - John D

A man has no right to occupy another man's time unnecessarily. - John D

Curiosity turns work into play. - Paul Graham

http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. - Aristotle

How to Become an Early Riser
If you want to become an early riser (or just exert more control over your sleep patterns), then try this: Go to bed only when you’re too sleepy to stay up, and get up at a fixed time every morning.
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/05/how-to-become-an-early-riser/

Part 2
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/05/how-to-become-an-early-riser-part-ii/

How to Get Up Right Away When Your Alarm Goes Off

无论政府有多么强大，都不可能强大得过市场。- 谢国忠

Ideas are worth nothing on their own. - Rob Walling

How much your ideas worth? http://sivers.org/multiply

Startup ideas are not million dollar ideas, and here's an experiment you can try to prove it: just try to sell one. Nothing evolves faster than markets. The fact that there's no market for startup ideas suggests there's no demand. Which means, in the narrow sense of the word, that startup ideas are worthless.
http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html

http://anttiakonniemi.com/2010/09/20/ideas-are-worth-nothing/
http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2010/10/14/startup-marketing-part-6-why-you-should-start-marketing-the-day-you-start-coding/

No one cares about your idea. Not even your mom (I know she said she does, but she was just being nice). - Rob Walling

http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2010/10/14/startup-marketing-part-6-why-you-should-start-marketing-the-day-you-start-coding/

不辞劳苦的付出，便是「慈悲」。- 證嚴法師靜思語

To willingly undergo hardship for the sake of others is compassion. - Master Cheng Yen

Market comes first, marketing second, aesthetic third, and functionality a distant fourth - Rob Walling

Perfection is always a work in progress. - Tim Milward

http://joel.is/post/3830271787/fear-of-not-shipping

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. - Abraham Lincoln

人都是因为太聪明了，分别的事多，矛盾也多，才会著想不开 。- 證嚴法師靜思語

Often when a person is too smart, they will over analyze things, and contradiction appears; hence they become anxiously entrenched. - Master Cheng Yen

逆境、是非来临，心中要持一「宽」字 。- 證嚴法師靜思語

When conflict and adversity arise, always preserve a spacious heart. - Master Cheng Yen