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“If you wanted to get rich, how would you do it? I think your best bet would be to start or join a startup. That’s been a reliable way to get rich for hundreds of years. The word ’startup’ dates from the 1960s, but what happens in one is very similar to the venture-backed trading voyages of the Middle Ages.”

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“When William Swanson joined Raytheon as a young engineer in 1972, he was timid and sat quietly scribbling notes at meetings. Decades of observations and wisdom have been boiled down into 33 concise leadership tips that Raytheon had printed into a 3 1/2-by-6-inch booklet called Swanson’s UnWritten Rules of Management. By word of mouth, it is turning into one of the hottest underground leadership books in memory. So far, Raytheon has given out 100,000 copies.”

“There are thousands of reasons why entrepreneurship should never take place but only one good one for why it does: these individuals have superior speculative judgment and are willing to take the leap of faith that is required to test their speculation against the facts of an uncertain future.”

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“If there’s such a thing as a stereotypical ‘great boss,’ Michael Feiner wouldn’t be the first to come to mind. The former PepsiCo executive lacks the sentiment of Herb Kelleher, the beloved former chief of Southwest Airlines. Nor has he got the goofy humor of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos… His message: A great boss doesn’t need a larger-than-life persona, and leadership isn’t composed of heroic gestures and brilliant insights. Rather, it’s the unglamorous and old-fashioned work of building relationships, being committed to employees’ success and holding them accountable.”