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Undefeated Motivation

Undefeated Motivation

"I was lucky, I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20." -Steve Jobs -Undefeated Motivation
Steve Jobs 

“I was lucky, I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents’ garage when I was 20.” -Steve Jobs

“I was lucky, I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents’ garage when I was 20.” -Steve Jobs

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“I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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