Love Quote by An Wang

An Wang’s line is the kind of motto that reads like self-help until you remember who’s saying it: a hands-on tech founder who built Wang Laboratories from immigrant hustle into a computing powerhouse, then watched that same empire buckle as the industry pivoted. The phrasing is deliberately symmetrical, a tidy verbal circuit: passion flows into enterprise, enterprise flows back into identity. It’s not poetry for its own sake; it’s a management philosophy designed to make work feel like destiny.

The first half, “heart in the business,” flatters the romantic image of entrepreneurship: conviction, stamina, the willingness to outlast smarter competitors because you care more. The second half is the sharper blade. “The business in your heart” implies you don’t merely clock in; you internalize the company’s needs as personal needs. That’s a powerful tool for a founder trying to align a workforce around long hours, risky bets, and constant reinvention. It’s also a warning label. When the business lives inside you, failure is no longer a market outcome; it becomes a psychic event.

In late-20th-century American capitalism, especially in tech, this fusion of self and firm became a cultural script: the company as family, the product as mission, the founder as believer-in-chief. Wang’s quote captures both the fuel and the trap of that script. It works because it sells commitment as love while quietly normalizing total absorption - the kind that can build an industry, and just as easily consume the people inside it.