Hollywood, the Constitution, and Your Future

I just saw Will Smith’s The Pursuit of Happyness for the second time this week, and I had forgotten what a powerful movie it was. Or maybe I just wasn’t in a position to truly appreciate it when it first came out. It’s like studying Shakespeare in high school: at the age of fourteen you can’t even begin to appreciate the language or relate to the feelings in his plays (years later, that hasn’t improved much). But with time comes perspective, and I saw this movie in a completely different light.

 

Hey. Don’t ever let somebody tell you… You can’t do something. Not even me. All right? You got a dream… You gotta protect it. People can’t do somethin’ themselves, they wanna tell you you can’t do it. If you want somethin’, go get it. Period. - Chris Gardner, The Pursuit of Happyness

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Achieving Success Requires Risk

“Success comes to those who dare to dream dreams and are foolish enough to try and make them come true.” - Vinod Khosla: Venture capitalist, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, and avid hang-glider.

How do you manage risk in your business? Are you foolish enough to try to make your dreams come true? What good is a life littered with unfulfilled dreams? Maybe we’d all be better off if we did a little hang-gliding…

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” - Andre Gide, French writer, humanist, and Nobel Prize winner