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"If you focus on the wall, you will drive right into it. If you focus on the road, you will follow the road. Running a company is like that. " and “I didn’t quit.”

I am going to engrave the above mentioned quotes in gold* and put it on my wall.

* - Or just have my young kid write it with a pencil on a paper and put it on my wall.




Haha, it's a great life lesson no doubt. I learned this concept a few years ago when I first started to ride a motorcycle, and they have a phrase for it - target fixation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_fixation

What amazed me more was how the fundamentals of riding a motorcycle contained many great life lessons. It's not just target fixation, but rider awareness, maintaining margin, and all sorts of other little things.




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