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I'm Not Sure I Knew What An Entrepreneur Was When I Was Ten, But I Knew That Starting Little Businesses And Trying To Sell Greeting Cards Or Newspapers Door-to-door Or Just Vending Machine Kind Of Thing Is.. There's Just Something Very Intriguing To Me About That.

You're Not Just Trying To Do Something Marginally, Incrementally Better. You're Doing Something That Is A Fundamental Paradigm Shift, That Will Have Exponential Impact. That Means It's Harder To Do, But Ultimately, If It's Successful, The Impact It Has Is Far Greater.

You Really Need To Believe That You Are On To Something Important.

The Idea Of An Entrepreneur Is Really Thinking Out Of The Box And Taking Risks And Stepping Up To Major Challenges.

I Was Not An Outstanding Student. I Did A Reasonable Amount Of Work. I Got Generally Good - Pretty Good Grades, But I Was Not That Passionate About Getting Straight A's.