“Forget about having an identity crisis and get some identity capital. … Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that's an investment in who you might want to be next.”
“Prisoners learn how to make do with less, and many of them want to take this ingenuity that they've learned to the outside … but there's no training, nothing to prepare them for that.”
— Jeff Smith
Jeff Smith: Lessons in business … from prison
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“[We need] to nurture the entrepreneurial spirit and the tremendous untapped potential in our prisons.”
— Jeff Smith
Jeff Smith: Lessons in business … from prison
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