Top 7 Quotes by Randy Komisar

The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.

The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.

Randy Komisar

Travel, Risk, Doing What You Want

Randy Komisar, Kent L. Lineback (2000). “The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur”, p.154, Harvard Business Press

Passion and drive are not the same at all. Passion pulls you toward something you cannot resist. Drive pushes you toward something you feel compelled or obligated to do. If you know nothing about yourself, you can't tell the difference. Once you gain a modicum of self-knowledge, you can express your passion.....It's not about jumping through someone else's hoops. That's drive.

Randy Komisar

Passion, Differences, Jumping

Randy Komisar, Kent L. Lineback (2001). “The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living”, p.83, Harvard Business Press

The risk of working with people you don't respect; the risk of working for a company whose values are incosistent with your own; the risk of compromising what's important; the risk of doing something that fails to express-or even contradicts--who you are. And then there is the most dangerous risk of all--the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet that you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.

Randy Komisar

People, Risk, Important

Work hard, work passionately, but apply your most precious asset—time—to what is most meaningful to you.

Randy Komisar

Meaningful, Hard Work, Assets

Randy Komisar, Kent L. Lineback (2001). “The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living”, p.156, Harvard Business Press

Don't confuse drive and passion. Drive pushes you forward. It's a duty, an obligation. Passion pulls you. It's the sense of connection you feel when the work you do expresses who you are. Only passion will get you through the tough times.

Randy Komisar

Passion, Tough Times, Connections

Randy Komisar, Kent L. Lineback (2001). “The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living”, p.93, Harvard Business Press

Rather than working to the exclusion of everything else in order to flood our bank accounts in the hope that we can eventually buy back what we have missed along the way, we need to live life fully now with a sense of its fragility.

Randy Komisar

Live Life, Order, Needs

Randy Komisar, Kent L. Lineback (2001). “The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living”, p.13, Harvard Business Press