It’s when you take that leave of absence or quit your job to focus on the startup full-time that it becomes real. - Roger Lee, president at PaperG

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"In a startup, there are many situations where you just don’t know what you’re supposed to do because you’ve never seen it before. But it’s also really exciting because you get experience you may never get in a traditional job." - Kevin Yang, EAT Club

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"People don’t tell you how much the world is slanted toward 'no.' The number of times we heard 'no' when building Teach For China was huge." - Rachel Wasser, co-founder of Teach For China

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"The idea wasn't to start a company. The idea was to get this product out to everyone who needed it." - Linus Liang, co-founder of Embrace

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"I knocked on 19,000 doors full-time for 15 months, and that’s how I won the election." - Stanley Chang, Honolulu City Council, District 4

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"Investors want to rush in and invest when you position their fear and greed together: their greed to make a billion dollars and their fear of losing the deal." - Yu-Kai Chou, RewardMe

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