"In order to learn how to do..." - Quote by Steve Jobs
In order to learn how to do something well, you have to fail sometimes. In order to fail, there has to be a measurement system. And that's the problem with most philanthropy - there's no measurement system. You give somebody some money to do something and most of the time you can really never measure whether you failed or succeeded in your judgment of that person or his ideas or their implementation.
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“For most of my life, I’ve felt that there must be more to our existence than meets the eye. This is who I am, and you can’t expect me to be someone I’m not.”
“I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”
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“Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve, you have to win the war in your thinking first. You can't let the failure outside you get inside you.”
“No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted.”
“Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.”