“When a customer sees that a company from India is performing in the financial markets better than their local partner, their attention is caught. We leveraged the financial markets for building brand, for competing in the marketplace.”— Kris Gopalkrishnan
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A growing archive of 3,000+ moments, drawn from every interview.
When we were first able to make approximately what our fathers made by doing performance, we considered ourselves completely successful and had no ambition beyond that. If we were playing fairs and cruise ships, we were happy.
— Penn JilletteMagician, Illusionist & Half of Penn & Teller Duo
I'm interested in the 'modern' definition of magic which plays with epistemology, and the determinations we make about what's true, and what is real. The most important decisions you can make center around your perceptions of the world, and what makes you doubt them.
— Penn JilletteMagician, Illusionist & Half of Penn & Teller Duo
Magic is this incredibly weird bondage and discipline you make where you say to someone, 'do this thing to me that's morally wrong… you have my consent…' – once you give your consent, the morality changes.
— Penn JilletteMagician, Illusionist & Half of Penn & Teller Duo
Until James DeGale won a World Title, no-one who'd won a gold medal for Britain in the Olympic Games had ever won a professional World Title, which is quite amazing. Sometimes the greatest boxers get overlooked.
— Frank WarrenFounder of PostSecret, anonymous confessions project & book series
There's an old adage that the boxer is the last one to know – it's not true, he's the first one to know, but the last to acknowledge it. You can learn from defeat – it's not the end of the world, but you have to learn from it.
— Frank WarrenFounder of PostSecret, anonymous confessions project & book series
Anyone can have a good trainer; you can learn the moves and get fit. Any boxer or athlete can get super fit – the edge is mental ability – It's having the self-belief. If you're not right in the head? You'll never do it.
— Frank WarrenFounder of PostSecret, anonymous confessions project & book series
To be a great fighter you obviously have to have talent, but what really matters is dedication and discipline. I've seen so many guys with talent where I've thought, 'this guy's going to be a world champion...' but they've not had the dedication. You can't just succeed with talent.
— Frank WarrenFounder of PostSecret, anonymous confessions project & book series
I got into boxing promotion by accident. I went to the meeting, turned around and said, 'I don't need you, we'll promote it...' I don't know why I even said that! The next minute, I was in the promotion business and helping to get this thing together; I got bitten by the bug, and it went from there.
— Frank WarrenFounder of PostSecret, anonymous confessions project & book series
We can take a hell of a lot more stress than we believe we can. We should learn how to fight not flight. And fight doesn't have to be a physical thing – it can be that you feel something's going to be uncomfortable 'okay well let's avoid it'. No, go through with it but go through with it in a progressive manner.
— John KavanaghBoxing coach of Conor McGregor at Straight Blast Gym Dublin
It's like playing chess but while getting punched in the face.
— John KavanaghBoxing coach of Conor McGregor at Straight Blast Gym Dublin
If you want to grow, you need to go through something uncomfortable and come out the other end. If you want to grow, you have to go forward in progressive steps. It should always be a little bit uncomfortable because otherwise there's no growth.
— John KavanaghBoxing coach of Conor McGregor at Straight Blast Gym Dublin
I approached fighting, and each contest, as an experiment. I would develop hypotheses on what strategies and techniques were winning, I would set-up experiments (or go into fights)- try them out- run tests- look at the results and try to be as unemotional as possible.
— John KavanaghBoxing coach of Conor McGregor at Straight Blast Gym Dublin
What's the business hip hop of this post pandemic world? Who's going to be the Rapper's Delight of the post pandemic world?
— Mark CubanBillionaire Investor, Shark Tank Investor & Dallas Mavericks Owner
You have to re-earn your customer's business every single day – it's not just about listening to them, but anticipating what they don't realise they need, and staying ahead of them.
— Mark CubanBillionaire Investor, Shark Tank Investor & Dallas Mavericks Owner
Your competitors are looking for the product, idea or feature that gives such a competitive advantage that they can take all your customers away from you. You need to work like someone's trying to take it all away from you, because they are.
— Mark CubanBillionaire Investor, Shark Tank Investor & Dallas Mavericks Owner
Taking that first step is your biggest competitive advantage; most people won't do it.
— Mark CubanBillionaire Investor, Shark Tank Investor & Dallas Mavericks Owner