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There's a general belief that failure is the friend of the innovator, but I've come to view it a different way.

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Scott D. Anthony
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: February 22
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The reality is customers lie - not because they want to want to deceive you, but because they don't do a good job of predicting what they will do in the future.
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It would be fun too to put some of the great philosophers and political scientists of the past couple centuries into a time machine, have them look at the world today, and see what they think. Imagine Schumpeter, Malthus, Hobbes, Nietzsche, Marx, and more! That would be good fun.
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