Surrender your self-interest. Love others as much as you love yourself. Then you can be entrusted with all things under heaven.
You say: "I'm a blue sky thinker. " Investor thinks: "You have no business model, and you don't know how to ship. "
Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.
Entrepreneur is not a job title. It is a state of mind of people who want to alter the future.
The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place.
If you want to make a good first impression, smile at people. What does it cost to smile? Nothing. What does it cost not to smile? Everything, if not smiling prevents you from enchanting people.
Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.
This is the good and happy news, that Christ has paid for our sin, and through His suffering has redeemed us from eternal death. It is His kingdom and His ministry, to preach the Gospel to the poor; that is His purpose. For to the great and holy He cannot come. They do not wish to be counted sinners, and therefore do not need His Gospel.
If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England - you couldn't have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.
Service is a balm to both the spirit and the body.
There must be a God, because I don't know how things work.