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You don't delegate. You hire great people. You help them in doing it. If they do it better than you, then you can back off.

Todd Graves
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Todd Graves

I'm interested in stuff that's very hard to make and that's singular, that can't be easily copied.

Patrick O'Shaughnessy
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Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Colossus & Positive Sum
Patrick O'Shaughnessy

The most interesting people are the most interested.

Michael Ovitz
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Michael Ovitz, Creative Artists Agency (CAA)
Michael Ovitz

I'm interested in being the best at whatever I get into, to the point of it probably not being healthy.

Michael Ovitz
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Michael Ovitz, Creative Artists Agency (CAA)
Michael Ovitz

If it's special to you, hold onto your equity. Take the risk, get more financing, but keep it yours, because you'll always be able to protect your baby.

Todd Graves
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Todd Graves, Raising Cane's
Todd Graves

[When an agent can work for seconds], you're literally talking about just a specific command. [When an agent can work for hours], you're talking about giving it a task and having it do the task. [When an agent can work for years], what you're talking about is you're giving the agent a mission.

Scott Wu
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Scott Wu, Cognition
Scott Wu

If you're experienced, you know why not to do something or how not to do something. Whereas if you're a young engineer you don't have that negativity towards certain things.

James Dyson
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James Dyson, Dyson
James Dyson

The most successful companies don't have more lucky events. They just seize on that luck better than other companies.

Jonathan Ross
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Jonathan Ross, Groq
Jonathan Ross

You didn’t even have to be smart. You had to have good follow-up. If you followed up, it kind of gave that extra point on the smart side of the scale.

Michael Ovitz
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Michael Ovitz, Creative Artists Agency (CAA)
Michael Ovitz

Losing my father and realizing I was on my own, that combination made me never satisfied, always wanting to find something better, and bounce back from failures.

James Dyson
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James Dyson, Dyson
James Dyson
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