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Conclusion: Beyond Yourself In the end, there are two things that matter: products and people. What you build and who you build it with. The things you make—the ideas you chase and the ideas that chase you—will ultimately define your career. And the people you chase them with may define your life. It’s incredibly special to create something together with a team. From nothing, from chaos, from a spark in someone’s head, to a product, a business, a culture.
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Tony Fadell
You also have to have the knowledge to enable you to make a very general estimate about the value of the underlying businesses. But you do not cut it close. That is what Ben Graham meant by having a margin of safety. You don’t try and buy businesses worth $83 million for $80 million. You leave yourself an enormous margin. When you build a bridge, you insist it can carry 30,000 pounds, but you only drive 10,000-pound trucks across it. And that same principle works in investing.
The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed
Benjamin Graham, Jason Zweig
She knew the story's credibility would be more powerful if supported by customers already experiencing those benefits. She made sure by launch three very different customers were willing to be public examples: industrial products manufacturer Ecolab, chemical distributor Univar, and consumer brand manufacturer L'Oréal.