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Quotes For Entrepreneurs–August 2010
Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 09:20 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
You can follow @skmurphy to get these hot off the mojo wire or wait until the end of the month when they are collected on the blog. You can also buy the E-book version at http://www.leanpub.com/skmurphy2 + + + “I don’t watch metrics on a daily basis because I don’t make metrics-based decisions on a daily basis” Patrick Mackenzie From “Back Office Exposed: Bingo Card Creator” an interview with Patrick Mackenzie Q: Can you share the key metrics you watch on a daily basis?
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Picked Up And Moved Heavy Objects Without Getting Hurt
Posted on Friday, August 20, 2010 - 02:43 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
My first real job was as a furniture mover when I was 16. When it came time to put together a resume as I was graduating from college “picked up and moved heavy objects without getting hurt”  was the best description I could come up with. I came across a copy of that first resume over the weekend and tried to recapture my frame of mind when I wrote it.
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Paul Saffo: Forecasting is “Strong Opinions, Weakly Held”
Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 02:37 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
From Paul Saffo’s blog entry for July 26, 2008:  “Strong Opinions, Weakly Held” The point of forecasting is not to attempt illusory certainty, but to identify the full range of possible outcomes. Try as one might, when one looks into the future, there is no such thing as “complete” information, much less a “complete” forecast. As a consequence, I have found that the fastest way to an effective forecast is often through a sequence of lousy forecasts.
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Quotes For Entrepreneurs–July 2010
Posted on Saturday, July 31, 2010 - 09:29 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
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Quotes for Entrepreneurs – April 2010
Posted on Friday, April 30, 2010 - 04:30 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
“There was a long silence on the other end, a silence peculiar to conference calls when an entire group stops to think.” Clay Shirky in “The Collapse of Complex Business Models” “Ignorance is always ready to admire itself.
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Quotes For Entrepreneurs – March 2010
Posted on Wednesday, March 31, 2010 - 09:50 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
“To have what you want is riches, to be able to do without is power.” George MacDonald “And the man in the suit has just bought a new car, From the profit he’s made on your dreams” Jim Capaldi “The Low Spark of High Heel Boys” “The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.” Peter Drucker “Real world tests are all open book: lessons gleaned from the free market inexorably determine success.” Jonathan Rosenberg full quote: ”In the real world the tests are all open book, and your
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Quotes for Entrepreneurs – February 2010
Posted on Sunday, February 28, 2010 - 20:01 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
“When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.”  William Wrigley Jr. “Your brand is the promise that you keep.” Kristin Zhivago “Plans are made, unmade, revised, and recast through action and interaction with others on a daily basis.” Saras Sarasvathy See also “Saras Sarasvathy’s Effectual Reasoning Model for Expert Entrepreneurs” “Ask for input only if you plan to do something with it or about it.” Richard Moran “Nuts, Bolts, and Jolts” “Simple ain’t easy.” Thelonious Monk “O
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Quotes for Entrepreneurs - January 2010
Posted on Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 09:06 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
Get them while they are hot on http://www.twitter.com/skmurphy “Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.” G. K. Chesterton “No amount of sophistication is going to allay the fact that all your knowledge is about the past and all your decisions are about the future.” Ian E.
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One Door Closes, Another Opens
Posted on Friday, January 1, 2010 - 20:16 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
I had the privilege to hear Andrew Grove address the Churchill Club on November 6, 2001 at a dinner meeting in San Jose. His autobiography “Swimming Across” had recently been published and he recounted some key events in his life in the course of his talk. After he escaped from Hungary following the collapse of the Hungarian Revolution in 1956 he made his way to New York in 1957 and associated with a group of fellow Hungarians. He remarked that the emigres divided into two camps.
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Quotes for Entrepreneurs - December 2009
Posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 - 20:45 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
Quoting myself a lot this month, evidence for something. I will have to look back in a year and see how many are still useful. “Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.” Daniel Raeburn from “Vessels” Hemingway’s shortest story: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” Raeburn’s is as heartbreaking: “Irene Raeburn: born December 28, 2004, died December 24, 2004.” “Lots of guys came and went who had way more talent.
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