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Wisdom about entrepreneurship.
What people have learned about entrepreneurship the hard way, and what the classics said about it first.
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From the library
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
Now propriety is the attenuated form of leal-heartedness and good faith, and is also the commencement of disorder; swift apprehension is (only) a flower of the Tao, and is the beginning of stupidity.
What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.
The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
We meet it and do not see its Front; we follow it, and do not see its Back. When we can lay hold of the Tao of old to direct the things of the present day, and are able to know it as it was of old in the beginning, this is called (unwinding) the clue of Tao.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.