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Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business.


Peter Diamandis

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PETER SINGER Church members in too many cases are like deep sea divers, encased in the suits designed for many fa...
PETER MARSHALL Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a produ...
PETER DRUCKER I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustaine...
PETER THIEL There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, ho...
PETER NOONE The break-up of a relationship is always difficult, especially a 30-year one.
PETER HOOK Two halves have little choice but to join;
And yes, they do make a whole
but two wholes when t...
PETER MCWILLIAMS In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way...
PETER USTINOV Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.
PETER LEVI Salvador Dali, lying on his deathbed in a stupor, is said to have been fed thousands of sheets of bl...
PETER LANDESMAN Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey ...
PETER ACKROYD Celebrity poverty, that's the hidden scandal in Blair's Britain. You can't help but worr...
PETER YORK I'm not a fashion architect. I don't dress in Ralph Lauren and Gucci. When I buy a suit, I b...
PETER EISENMAN Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize...
PETER RENA When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
PETER MCWILLIAMS If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
PETER HANDKE Only in this world of topsy-turvy attitudes could outright stupidity, such as I had displayed, be so...
PETER DAVID Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas.
PETER KREEFT Twisting lemons into lemonade.
PETER DUCHAN