You Shouldn't Focus On Why You Can't

We Need That Same Mentality In Philanthropy, Trying Things, Taking Risks, Recognizing The First Try, Maybe The Second Try, Maybe The Third Try Won't Work. But If You Stay At It And You're Learning, You're Talking To Others, And You're Learning Together, Eventually You'll Break Through And See The Kind Of Impact You Were Hoping For.

I'm Not Sure I Knew What An Entrepreneur Was When I Was Ten, But I Knew That Starting Little Businesses And Trying To Sell Greeting Cards Or Newspapers Door-to-door Or Just Vending Machine Kind Of Thing Is.. There's Just Something Very Intriguing To Me About That.

You're Not Just Trying To Do Something Marginally, Incrementally Better. You're Doing Something That Is A Fundamental Paradigm Shift, That Will Have Exponential Impact. That Means It's Harder To Do, But Ultimately, If It's Successful, The Impact It Has Is Far Greater.

We Lose Money On Signing Up The Customers Where There's Some Marketing Costs Associated With Giving Them A Free Month. It Doesn't Much Matter Whether You Make A Little Bit Or Lose A Little Bit.. As You Well Know, Because You Lose A Ton On Every Copy Of The Washington Post (newspaper).

The Real Magic In National Geographic Isn't How Much Money They Have Left At The End Of The Year. It's The Fact That Through Their Overall Focus They Are Reaching Hundreds Of Millions Of People And Educating People About The World. It Just Happens To Be Done In A Business-oriented Kind Of Way That Is More Sustainable.