April 4, 2023
Entrepreneurship

Are You Driving or Being Driven?

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I read a quote that stuck with me:

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

                                                          – Leonardo da Vinci

Are you driving what’s happening or being driven?

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