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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn't smooth. You'll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don't believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don't give up.

No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.

It's difficult to do something radically new, unless you are at the heart of a company.

I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.

Somehow, the company must stay true to the founding vision while avoiding the pitfalls of rapid growth - and perhaps survive the hiring of a previously successful executive who doesn't work out.

Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.

The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.

You can never be satisfied as an entrepreneur, and the basis of any successful, growing business is new clients.

I think you're defined as a company by what you choose to do and what you choose not to do.