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What line from a parent, teacher, or mentor do you still repeat to yourself?

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David Vélez Co-founder and chief executive of Nubank
¿Es la tecnología, el machine learning y la inteligencia artificial? Sí, es verdad, pero al final la diferencia es que hacemos algo que mi mamá me decía cuando era chiquito: "Tratemos a los demás como nos gustaría que nos traten a nosotros".
Recorded Vicky Dávila, interview, Semana, 1 October 2022 source ↗
Elan Lee Game designer; co-creator of Exploding Kittens
There’s a few that are immediate, because he just drilled them into my head. One is “Nothing attracts a crowd like a crowd.” Try as hard as you want to market something, get a crowd. That’s what actually matters. Another one that he still says all the time is, “You’ve got a violin, I’ve got a barn. Let’s put on a show. Don’t overthink this, just go.
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 4 February 2023 source ↗

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