Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.


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MARK TWAIN
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find...
MARK TWAIN
Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood...
MARK TWAIN
As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.
MARK TWAIN
I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshol...
MARK TWAIN
Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than...
MARK TWAIN
The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without burst...
MARK TWAIN
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
MARK TWAIN
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
MARK TWAIN
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do wh...
MARK TWAIN
To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand ...
MARK TWAIN
All workers, whether they are employed in the private or public sector, should avoid living 'pay...
MARK SKOUSEN
Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset ...
MARK GATISS
I have a very dear family and very dear friends. They're my rock. These are people who knew me f...
MARK RUFFALO
There is no better way to quickly buoy hard-pressed homeowners than helping them take advantage of t...
MARK ZANDI
I'm nutty bunny number two. I love me and I love you.
MARK MCKINNEY
Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the ...
MARK ZANDI
James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire t...
MARK WAHLBERG
There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the ...
MARK GODDARD
I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Los...
MARK GODDARD
I vaguely remember in the '90s when Calvin Klein started making unisex CK1. Don't worry abou...
MARK RONSON
Well, right now we're so busy that I kind of had to put all the hobbies on hold. But I like goin...
MARK KELLY
I have traveled down this path before - 'List of Seven' and 'Twin Peaks' both have t...
MARK FROST
We have pension funds with 1.5 trillion euros investments, and they want to find business opportunit...
MARK RUTTE
We need not to just kill the boat-smuggling business model: we also need to get rid of this asylum-s...
MARK RUTTE
Potential home buyers have a two-step decision process. First, they determine whether they can affor...
MARK ZANDI
The best person to get something done is a busy person.
MARK BURNETT
The Romney candidacy is better than it was four years ago, but it's not clear that it's good...
MARK STEYN
I don't buy the argument that there can't be a successful independent candidacy for the pres...
MARK MCKINNON
Having been heavily involved in the planning of a couple of G.O.P. conventions, my view is, we shoul...
MARK MCKINNON
Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, t...
MARK HOPPUS
The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,...
MARK ZANDI