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Business is not a battle to be waged. It’s a puzzle to be solved. ~Sam Zell Sam Zell is a Chicago-based investor in real estate and troubled assets. He is known for successful business turnarounds and his direct style of communicating....

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water, or do you want to come with me and change the world?   ~Steve Jobs Steve Jobs posed the above question to an executive at Pepsi while recruiting him...

One reason to attend conferences: To discover trends while we still have time to be on the cutting edge. Over 400 trend-spotters gathered in downtown Los Angeles for this weekend’s Intelligent Investors Real Estate Conference. This post offers a snap-shot...

Interesting offer, received via email today. Google is offering a “free” Google Home Mini to users of the Spotify music service. All you have to do is connect your Spotify account to your Google account. And then Google will send...

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir [the] blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but...

What important truth do very few people agree with you on?    ~Peter Thiel’s contrarian question Peter Thiel is a Silicon Valley billionaire, co-founder of multiple successful startups (including PayPal), and a venture capitalist. In those roles, Thiel asks the...