I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy. ~Naveen Jain
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Whenever armed forces are used, the idea of combat must be present. The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time. ~Carl von Clausewitz
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed. That sets his doors wide open to a thief, and shows the felon where his treasure lies? ~Ben Jonson
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. ~Gregory Bateson
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A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment. ~American Proverb
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He who wishes to talk well must first think well. ~Proverb
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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All human joys are swift of wing. For heaven doth so allot it. That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it ~Eugene Field
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~Japanese Proverb
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The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry. ~Osmanli Proverb
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The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected. ~Jacki Weaver
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Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb
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It's like there's a moment that happens in baseball, and when it happens, I do everything to concentrate. When you do that, it can be good. ~Miguel Cabrera
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He who eats alone, coughs alone. ~Arabic Proverb
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