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The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur are the ability to fail, to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on them, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.
James Altucher
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James Altucher
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 23
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