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We’re looking for extraordinary entrepreneurs who can create very large businesses. After eighteen years and backing over one hundred entrepreneurs, I’ve learned it’s a rare person who has the combination of attributes to get through the challenges of a startup and create a large company that changes our lives.”

Tren Griffin - A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs

2017, Columbia University Press

But since for most of the world’s history the main route to wealth was to steal it, we tend to be suspicious of rich people.

Hackers & Painters - Big Ideas From the Computer Age

Paul Graham

Logical positivism, later called logical empiricism, and both of which together are also known as neopositivism, was a movement in Western philosophy whose central thesis was the verification principle (also known as the verifiability criterion of meaning). This theory of knowledge asserted that only statements verifiable through direct observation or logical proof are meaningful in terms of conveying truth value, information or factual content. Starting in the late 1920s, groups of philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians formed the Berlin Circle and the Vienna Circle, which, in these two cities, would propound the ideas of logical positivism.

Logical Positivism - Wikipedia

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