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| Rank |
ID |
Text |
Length |
Races |
Difficulty Rating |
Top Score |
Top 100 |
Average |
Active Since |
| 1. |
#3090023 |
You are trying to tell people that what they are currently buying is not good enough, that they need to pay you in order to change their behavior. |
146 |
2,926 |
1.134 |
217.69 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow2) |
168.65 |
106.74 |
May 1, 2014 |
| 2. |
#3090024 |
The main reason is that you are swimming against the market's existing current, going against the grain. All entrepreneurs do that. If that were not the case, it would not be entrepreneurship. |
192 |
3,005 |
1.077 |
206.71 — PhilliesMagic (fightin_phils) |
166.83 |
103.05 |
May 1, 2014 |
| 3. |
#3090018 |
In order for this book to contain extraordinary value, it must call into question some of the widely held beliefs that we cherish. At a minimum, it must make us think. |
167 |
2,861 |
1.065 |
200.08 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow2) |
160.12 |
102.35 |
May 1, 2014 |
| 4. |
#3090019 |
People have mistakenly assumed that entrepreneurs have to be young, have a truly unique idea, and have to have deep expertise in their subject matter. |
150 |
2,836 |
1.064 |
226.87 — PhilliesMagic (fightin_phils) |
173.20 |
102.31 |
May 1, 2014 |
| 5. |
#3090005 |
I argue that entrepreneurship is the contrarian perception, creation, and capture of extraordinary value. And as you'll see in the following pages, in order to create and capture that extraordinary value, it is necessary to see or sense value in things that many other people see as worthless, impossible or stupid. |
315 |
1,734 |
1.047 |
197.57 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow2) |
158.77 |
93.73 |
May 1, 2014 |
| 6. |
#3090017 |
So the Law of Passion is that entrepreneurs need to learn to mix the hot oil of seeing value where others do not, and the ice cold water of clear-headedness. If I had to choose, I would probably choose clear headedness, but the trick is to mix the two incompatible tendencies. |
276 |
1,868 |
1.040 |
194.43 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow2) |
154.88 |
93.77 |
May 1, 2014 |
| 7. |
#3090012 |
So let the entrepreneurs rummage through piles of society's innovation assets. As they determine what is valuable from scrap, I invite you to watch with me as they surprise us in their value creation. |
200 |
2,713 |
1.039 |
200.07 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow2) |
156.36 |
99.48 |
May 1, 2014 |
| 8. |
#3090000 |
Why is that? The main reason is that you are swimming against the market's existing current, going against the grain. All entrepreneurs do that. If that were not the case, it would not be entrepreneurship. Because you, or your friends, are doing something novel, bringing a product or service to the market is that doesn't exist yet except in your mind's eye. You are trying to tell people that what they are currently buying is not good enough, that they need to pay you in order to change their behavior. That means you are butting up against from anything from apathy to scorn. But if you succeed in scaling that wall of resistance, you will have proven that that new product or service has. |
694 |
1,663 |
1.031 |
202.14 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow2) |
156.59 |
95.78 |
May 1, 2014 |
| 9. |
#3090020 |
But let's take a first look at several of these entrepreneurs, especially those who shatter some of our stereotypes about who the typical entrepreneur really is. |
161 |
2,415 |
1.030 |
185.63 — PhilliesMagic (fightin_phils) |
159.85 |
97.91 |
May 1, 2014 |
| 10. |
#3090015 |
If I tell you what you already believe, then you may like me or feel comforted, but the value created by the ideas in this book will be limited. In order for this book to contain extraordinary value, it must call into question some of the widely held beliefs that we cherish. At a minimum, it must make us think. It has certainly done that for me. Entrepreneurship has become a romantic pursuit for many, but there is no substitute for clear headedness, even when you don't like what you see. Beauty may be the vision of a new product or service, but truth is in its realization. |
579 |
1,370 |
1.028 |
199.72 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow2) |
148.62 |
93.45 |
May 1, 2014 |
| 11. |
#3090021 |
I argue that entrepreneurship is the contrarian perception, creation, and capture of extraordinary value. |
105 |
2,827 |
1.021 |
192.28 — PhilliesMagic (fightin_phils) |
161.72 |
98.36 |
May 1, 2014 |
| 12. |
#3090001 |
Worthless, Impossible and Stupid (Worthless) is about how so many people from all around the world see hidden value in situations where others do not, use that perception to successfully develop valuable products and services that customers usually initially don't think they want, and ultimately go on to realize extraordinary value for themselves. |
349 |
1,461 |
1.006 |
197.37 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow2) |
147.32 |
89.96 |
May 1, 2014 |
| 13. |
#3090022 |
Entrepreneurs' defiance of our expectations is so prevalent that it almost always has a surprising quality-if it weren't a surprise, typically greeted by a great deal of skepticism in the early stages, someone would be doing it already. |
236 |
1,533 |
0.995 |
188.55 — PhilliesMagic (fightin_phils) |
156.30 |
88.20 |
May 1, 2014 |
| 14. |
#3090008 |
I will confess up front that these are weighty issues, some of which I myself raise because they are important, even though I myself don't believe I have satisfactory answers to them. They include income inequality, social entrepreneurship, and whether personal gain is an essential motivator of entrepreneurship. But let's take a first look at several of these entrepreneurs, especially those who shatter some of our stereotypes about who the typical entrepreneur really is. |
475 |
1,392 |
0.984 |
170.43 — PhilliesMagic (fightin_phils) |
141.30 |
88.39 |
May 1, 2014 |
| 15. |
#3090016 |
I believe that entrepreneurship is an extremely valuable endeavor for individuals and societies, even if only a few will succeed at it-much collective value will be created by many more trying than actually succeed. Failure to create and capture extraordinary value-remaining in the realm of the ordinary-may have other benefits such as happiness, insight, and understanding, not to mention mastery and self-control. |
416 |
1,243 |
0.980 |
197.34 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow2) |
151.49 |
90.73 |
May 1, 2014 |
| 16. |
#3090007 |
By the end of Worthless, I will challenge beliefs many of us have come to hold dear, asking probing questions such as: Do you need to be an innovator to be an entrepreneur? Do you need to be young? Is there really any such thing as a "social entrepreneur"? |
256 |
1,583 |
0.977 |
200.22 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow2) |
151.29 |
83.69 |
May 1, 2014 |
| 17. |
#3090009 |
As a result of our stereotype of genius whiz-kids inventing something truly spectacular, people have mistakenly assumed that entrepreneurs have to be young, have a truly unique idea, and have to have deep expertise in their subject matter. Obvious, right? Let's be careful of that "O" word, which we will encounter again a few times in this book. |
346 |
1,322 |
0.971 |
204.92 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow2) |
153.51 |
88.78 |
May 1, 2014 |
| 18. |
#3090013 |
So Shah convinced his landlord, a teacher on summer break, to drop him off in a different spot every morning, and he would work his beat on foot. Shah did find one point for optimism: "At least in India I was used to 100F with high humidity." The first morning at the first house, no one came to the door. The second house, he was waved along. The third house unleashed a dog on him. And at the fourth house, a little kid answered, and seeing Shah standing in front of him, shouted, "Mom, there's a tan guy at the door!" |
520 |
1,092 |
0.969 |
178.78 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow2) |
146.09 |
89.06 |
May 1, 2014 |
| 19. |
#3090002 |
The entrepreneurial record is writ full of entrepreneurs who "should" succeed but don't, and who "shouldn't" succeed, but do; entrepreneurs who almost crashed and burned, only to barely survive and to take off, and those who were taking off, only to suddenly lose altitude and fall. Entrepreneurs' defiance of our expectations is so prevalent that it almost always has a surprising quality-if it weren't a surprise, typically greeted by a great deal of skepticism in the early stages, someone would be doing it already. |
519 |
1,252 |
0.959 |
174.32 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow2) |
143.38 |
87.44 |
May 1, 2014 |
| 20. |
#3090011 |
"The only innovation we introduced was putting lime juice and chili sauce on the popcorn instead of butter," is how Miguel Davila sums up the Cinemex founders' approach to building a pioneering multiscreen cinema chain in Mexico. |
229 |
1,455 |
0.927 |
196.89 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow2) |
140.48 |
81.85 |
May 1, 2014 |
| 21. |
#3090014 |
We will ask from time to time in Worthless where entrepreneurs get their ambition, but it is clear that ambition and expertise are inter-twined; it is just not clear whether expertise leads to ambition, or the other way around, or both. This is illustrated in the story of how non-engineer Oliver Kuttner achieved one of Peter Diamandis' "crazy technological breakthroughs" to win $5 million. |
392 |
1,230 |
0.925 |
185.12 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow2) |
142.26 |
84.86 |
May 1, 2014 |
| 22. |
#3090006 |
Entrepreneurship - perceiving, creating, and capturing extraordinary value - is part of the human experience. In this respect, it is similar to art, poetry, music, and story-telling. Every society's people have developed unique ways of expressing themselves, and entrepreneurship is also a form of self-expression. Also like art and music, whereas they are ubiquitous, not everyone in a society is a musician or artist - or entrepreneur, although from childhood we all have innate abilities to sing and draw. |
508 |
1,208 |
0.922 |
182.50 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow2) |
144.35 |
87.08 |
May 1, 2014 |
| 23. |
#3090003 |
Worthless has two broad objectives: One is to catalyze entrepreneurial aspiration and help more of you to choose the path of entrepreneurship (which I call the "entrepreneurial choice") by simply showing you that entrepreneurship-extraordinary value creation and capture-is possible even though it is extraordinary. |
315 |
1,222 |
0.910 |
174.47 — PhilliesMagic (fightin_phils) |
138.71 |
83.18 |
May 1, 2014 |
| 24. |
#3090004 |
At a recent conference at MIT on business opportunities in Brazil, one of the speakers summed up: "In a word, Brazil is juicy." He was not referring to the juice of electricity, but in Sorocaba, 25 miles west of Sao Paulo, Bento Koike and the venture he founded, Tecsis, have shipped over 12 thousand 50-meter wind turbine blades that operate 24x7 in the wind farms of North America and Europe. Virtually all of Koike's critical raw materials come from the Northern Hemisphere, and all of his customers are there as well. The value-the real "juice"-is created and captured in Brazil. |
583 |
1,058 |
0.869 |
170.21 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow2) |
129.53 |
80.74 |
May 1, 2014 |
| 25. |
#3090010 |
In 1999, at the age of 29 he took over the tiny, failing Actavis (under a different name until 2004) and in eight years had built it into the fifth largest generics pharmaceutical company in the world with, in 2007, 11,000 employees, presence in 40 countries, 650 products, 21 manufacturing plants, 26 successful acquisitions, and R&D in five countries and four continents. |
373 |
1,081 |
0.866 |
168.85 — PhilliesMagic (fightin_phils) |
141.62 |
82.58 |
May 1, 2014 |