Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing
The definition of winning has become distorted. If winning the rights to a property brings with it hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, what have you won? When faced with the prospect of heavy financial losses, we have consistently walked away and have done so again.
| Buchi Emecheta, Novelist (1944) |
| John Gardner, Novelist (1933) |
| Josh Hartnett, Actor (1978) |
| Norman Jewison, Director (1926) |
| John B. Keane, Playwright (1928) |
| Ali Landry, Model (1973) |
| John Cotton Dana, Author (1929) |
| Ruth St. Denis, Dancer (1968) |
| Robert Green Ingersoll, Lawyer (1899) |


