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Hustling doing whatever you have to do, for however long as you have to do it, until you reach your goal. The world belongs to those who hustle, and the world needs hustlers.

Video of Steve Jobs and team during the early days of NeXT.

Most entrepreneurs pursue the question, "How can I succeed?" From day one, Packard and Hewlett pursued a different question: "What can we contribute?"

Excerpts from speeches given by Zhu Rongji, former Premier of China. Shows a man who had a very firm grasp on breadth and depth of policy details, which allowed him to address problems in a straightforward and forceful way.

Mongolia is like baking a cake. All the ingredients are on the table. You've got everything you need to build a modern, prosperous economy. The only thing that's missing is the political leadership to make the tough decisions.

God could make everything, but instead he says, "I bestow upon you the gift of free will so that you can participate in making this world. I could make everything, but I am going to give you some spark of my genius. Surprise me with something truly good and beautiful."

Among the elaborate seals, bronze statues and marble hallways that adorn federal Washington, there is another symbol of the machinery of government that is often overlooked: the lowly ballpoint pen.

We should go pro and abandon anti. Because believing in something? Going after it by running as hard as you can? That is not cool—it is ugly and it is awesome. Why be reductive? Why undercut a true and honest attempt?

Letter to Amazon's shareholders detailing the nature of investments technology infrastructure. Favorite tidbit, personally, is about how technologies are implemented almost exclusively as services, because it "reduces side effects and allows services to evolve at their own pace without impacting the other components of the overall system."

The secret of success turns out to be so incredibly simple: Work your ass off.