I may be a mistake maker, but I'm also a mistake breaker.
Obsession makes my life bad and my work good.
As all entrepreneurs will say, "surround yourself with good people". That is the hardest thing : finding good people.
An entrepreneur needs to have values. Values that are wholesome.
Entrepreneurs need to listen. They don't need to be good listeners (although it can only help) but they need to know when to listen.
Creating art (music, books, films, etc. ) can be beautiful and liberating, but trying to sell art, well, that is the movie business. There are few winners, and lots and lots of losers.
There are differences in the businesses themselves, but the fundamentals are the same: give customers a good experience, charge them a reasonable price, listen to them, and treat them with respect.
Humor is not debatable. It's like sex. Either you're aroused or you're not. Nobody can reason you around to their point of view.
In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.
One's emotions are intensified in Paris—one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it is always a positive source of joy to live here, and there is nobody so miserable as a Parisian in exile from his town.
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.