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Great entrepreneurs are often great listeners and they can spot patterns and pick up on small details in customer stories.


Alexander Osterwalder

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JILL LEPORE The small are always dependent on the great; they are "small" precisely because they think they are ...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER They got crossed up on the pick-and-roll and Kidd made a great shot. That was demoralizing.
FLIP SAUNDERS Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
DEMOSTHENES The best communicators are great listeners, not talkers.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN Too often, parents whose children express an interest in farming squelch it because they envision di...
JOEL SALATIN They're in a great spot because they can get a great player who will help their football team regard...
MIKE MCCARTNEY Alexander the Great Alexander the Great Butcher .. how much responsibility does Aristotle his teache...
O ANNA NIEMUS How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
ALEXANDER GREAT I am dying with the help of too many physicians.
ALEXANDER GREAT Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
ALEXANDER GREAT I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and ...
ALEXANDER GREAT Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
ALEXANDER GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
ALEXANDER GREAT There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
ALEXANDER GREAT Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them ...
ALEXANDER GREAT I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory...
ALEXANDER GREAT In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
ALEXANDER GREAT Entrepreneurs can't forecast accurately, because they are trying something fundamentally new. So...
ERIC RIES We have the technology, ... We wake up and we're in a great spot.
STEVE APPLETON Great men do not experience small challenges. They face great challenge but that is what makes them ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped withou...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped withou...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES He's a great player. He can line up anywhere on the field. He's capable of scoring from any spot.
ANDRE JOHNSON You've got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams, give them excellen...
BILL GATES Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of...
JAMES CASH PENNEY Great brands are built through great customer insights.
SAURABH UBOWEJA Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, quickly and willingly, without grumbling and...
ROBERT GROSSETESTE A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER I often find that entrepreneurs think my theory is great. My interpretation is that they are people ...
HOWARD GARDNER Mindset fuels behavior... Great lives, great relationships, great businesses, and great love stories...
STEVE MARABOLI A good may be for one ,but a great is for all.
ANUJ SOMANY GOOD and GREAT: “You have always settled for good that is why you are not great. You have to estab...
DR. SHAILESH THAKER It feels great. Anytime you can pick up a win (it's great), especially a win on the road coming back...
ISSAC MARSH The patterns are repeated over and over again, and they can go on for infinity. Just like day and ni...
FAHIMEH AMIRI Too often, politics is like bad theater. The mass media simplifies stories and personalities into th...
KEVIN HASSETT Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That'...
MOHNISH PABRAI Great entrepreneurs from Saudi Arabia are interested in helping promote the Arab language.
ANTONIO SARKIS JR Great acts are made up of small deeds.
LAO TZU Ghost stories and Sherlock Holmes mysteries were great. And I had a major soft spot for those 'C...
RANSOM RIGGS The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They a...
NEIL GAIMAN It was about finding creative, original musicians. Musicians who are strong composers. Flexible, emp...
JOSHUA REDMAN I'm generally risk averse, and most great entrepreneurs I know are as well.
JASON FRIED The Empath is often said to have such a great degree of empathy that they can literally feel what ot...
ALETHEIA LUNA All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a ...
ALBERT CAMUS There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the stor...
STEPHEN KING He's been great at camp. He definitely has a great set of hands and he can sniff out the net, that's...
CHRIS PRONGER A small temptation can stop a great glory and turn great joy into a great sorrow
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It would be so great if we could find some kind of a sky hook and pick up these gorgeous buildings a...
MARY GAUTIER What's really important is that we carefully look at what our lifestyle patterns are, our eating pat...
ALICE LICHTENSTEIN All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a ...
ALBERT CAMUS It's great. When you're part of a team, you pitch in and pick each other up.
ANDY RODDICK I can rely on a solid group with great enthusiasm ... but the teams preceding us in the table are to...
LUCIANO SPALLETTI Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of...
OG MANDINO One of the great things about young entrepreneurs is that they don't know that something can'...
FRED WILSON A great deal of creativity is about pattern recognition, and what you need to discern patterns is to...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; th...
FRANÇOIS FÉNELON It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together an...
GEORGE LOPEZ I love low-budget projects with great acting and great stories you can really get your teeth into.
ERIN RICHARDS Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about pa...
MICHAEL SHERMER We think there [are] great stories and insight out there.
DEAN BARRETT Guys were in the right spot. They helped me out a great deal.
CRAIG AUSTRIE If you can not do great things, Do small things in a great way.
NAPOLEON HILL Todd (Braun) and the guys prepared a great car. Hopefully we can be in this spot after the rest.
JASON LEFFLER There are thousands of inspirational stories waiting to be told about young women who yearn for a gr...
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN When the customer arrives for their test drive, they will have a reserved Internet parking spot and ...
BRYAN HOPKINS If there are people who are not reporting these crimes, we won't be able to pick up the crime patter...
BILLY JONES Comedy and politics have a lot in common. Both are great ways to pick up chicks - just look at Gover...
ALEXANDRA PETRI That is a great building. I can see why he got that price. You can pick that building up and set it ...
DAVID HUDDLESTON Reality so often fails when it comes to small, satisfying details, she thought.
TERRY PRATCHETT Small businesses are so dynamic. If you deliver a great product at a great price, they are very loya...
JUSTIN KITCH They're a great spurt team. Especially when they play here, they can get on a 10-point run. And ofte...
BRAD BROWNELL I know up on the top you are seeing great sights, but down at the bottom we, too, should have rights...
DR. SEUSS The idea is that the customer can wear it to the beach and go to pick up the kids and go to the stor...
JACKIE SCHUTTY I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, ...
LIBBA BRAY If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Life is made up of a few moments all strung together like pearls. Each moment is a pearl, and it is ...
JOYCE HILFER There are two kinds of truth, small truth and great truth. You can recognize a small truth because i...
NEILS BOHR On the red carpet, I saw all these great stories, and I also got to see the plastic surgery up close...
STEVEN COJOCARU In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
GAMALIEL BRADFORD In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
GAMALIEL BRADFORD In a major matter no details are small.
PAUL DE GONDI Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the ...
RONALD REAGAN I can do small things in a great way.
JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE Basically if you study entrepreneurs, there is a misnomer: People think that entrepreneurs take risk...
MOHNISH PABRAI Remember that often we will not know the small details of our life mission
SUNDAY ADELAJA One of biggest lies in politics is the lie that Republicans are the party of big business. Big busin...
TED CRUZ So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
BIBLE Entrepreneurs have a great ability to create change, be flexible, build companies and cultivate the ...
TORY BURCH Over the past century, researchers have studied business entrepreneurs extensively..

In c...
DAVID BORNSTEIN History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many a...
MARK YOST Where we can do better is where they (UPS) do extremely well, with the small and medium customer.
ALAN JR Where we can do better is where they (UPS) do extremely well, with the small and medium customer.
ALAN GRAF JR Economics matters a great deal, and American companies are often torn when they consider their actio...
SONIA ARRISON I'm sure that the average person thought we would fold up right there. That's all everyone thinks we...
CHUCK DARBY Fortunately, I get asked to play - regardless of how big or small they are - some really interesting...
BILL CAMP I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.
TYLER PERRY The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to y...
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ALEXANDER POPE Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
ALEXANDER POPE Our envy of others devours us most of all
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your m...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhe...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which ...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my gr...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those ...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed...
ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
ALEXANDER POPE