Jason Calacanis in the first Read/WriteTalk interview with Sean Ammirati: "I always look at entrepreneurs as samurai. It's a lonely pursuit at times and basically your life is to fight. And you get done with one fight. You clean the blood off your sword. You put it away. You walk 10 miles to another village. And then you got to clean up that village. A couple of people got to lose their arms. And then you clean the blood off your sword. You have a cup of tea and some rice. And then you walk to the next village. That's the metaphor I work under which is it's a war and you have to just be stoic. And you have to fight hard." What would executives do without the well-worn samurai metaphor to rationalize their coldblooded, mercenary behavior? [
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