Quotes by Entrepreneurs - Page 20

Perception is reality.
Carsten K. Rath
She drank in all their compliments and soon she was full of herself.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Personal and private and public and professional lives are blended.Separating them is what makes a fraud, hypocrite, alter ego.
Richie Norton
Do you have the talent?' is rarely the question. 'Do you have the guts to finish?' is the real question.
Orrin Woodward
It's not about what you're capable of, it's about what you are willing to endure.
Orrin Woodward
It is absolutely essential to hang in there—especially when you feel most discouraged.
Steve Shallenberger
You can either hold onto your dream by letting go of your excuses or hold onto your excuses by letting go of your dream.
Orrin Woodward
Few lack talent, but most people lack the vision & perseverance to develop their talents.
Orrin Woodward
The goal - at least the way I think about entrepreneurship - is you realize one day that you can't really work anyone else. You have to start your own thing. It almost doesn't matter what the thing is. We had six different business plan changes, and then the last one was PayPal.If that one didn't work out, if we still had the money and the people, obviously we would not have given up. We would have iterated on the business model and done something else. I don't think there was ever clarity as to who we were until we knew it was working. By then, we'd figured out our PR pitch and told everyone what we do and who we are. But between the founding and the actual PayPal, it was just like this tug-of-war where it was like, "We're trying this, this week." Every week you go to investors and say, "We're doing this, exactly this. We're really focused. We're going to be huge." The next week you're like, "That was a lie.
Jessica Livingston
Sometimes the novel is not ready to be written because you haven't met the inspiration for your main character yet. Sometimes you need two more years of life experience before you can make your masterpiece into something that will feel real and true and raw to other people. Sometimes you're not falling in love because whatever you need to know about yourself is only knowable through solitude. Sometimes you haven't met your next collaborator. Sometimes your sadness encircles you because, one day, it will be the opus upon which you build your life.We all know this: Our experience cannot always be manipulated. Yet, we don't act as though we know this truth. We try so hard to manipulate and control our lives, to make creativity into a game to win, to shortcut success because others say they have, to process emotions and uncertainty as if these are linear journeys.You don't get to game the system of your life. You just don't. You don't get to control every outcome and aspect as a way to never give in to the uncertainty and unpredictability of something that's beyond what you understand. It's the basis of presence: to show up as you are in this moment and let that be enough.
Jamie Varon
My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70m in Tesla, and $10m in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent.
Elon Musk
Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course. The world would create new religions overnight. We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead, the stars come out every night and we watch television.
Paul Hawken
Few coffee shops have books, fewer have good books, and even less will have one book that can change your whole life. Now, the question is: How many people can find that book? And, among those who do, how many will read it? Because, you see, life always provides opportunities, but not many can see them, when they're just there, waiting to be found, when they come our way, even if in the most unexpected place in the world. One has to be very sharp to recognize a window of opportunity in a wall of illusions. And the ability to redirect attention, demands that one can be capable as well of knowing his own limitations in the vast sea of energy and vibrations. Now, I could be talking about a book, a group or a person, as the axiom remains true to itself.
Robin Sacredfire
No worries and no goodbyes, just give me a smile.
David Rangel
While we wait for good things to happen for ourselves, we can do good things for other people.
David Rangel
What is Religion according to you?“Religion is your idea of leading life, the value you not only hold close to your heart but ones that you practice, the passions in your life, the faith in your ideals, the vision you have for your life and the society around you.
Vishwas Mudagal
Fear is the freaky troll under the bridge that leads to achievement.
Richie Norton
Love is the canvas covering the furniture that you've become a part of
Josh Stern
Why are you here? To shine... just shine
Akosua Dardaine Edwards
Stars are not praised for shining during the day, but at night.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is not the fault of the stars that they shine brightly, but the fault of our eyes that they cannot handle light.
Matshona Dhliwayo
I'm here to tell niggas it ain't all swell.There's Heaven then there's Hell niggasOne day your cruisin' in your seven,Next day your sweatin', forgettin' your lies,Alibis ain't matchin' up, bullshit catchin' upHit with the RICO, they repoed your vehicleEverything was all good just a week ago'Bout to start bitchin' ain't you?Ready to start snitchin' ain't you?I forgive you. Weak ass, hustlin' just ain't youAside from the fast carsHoneys that shake they ass in barsYou know you wouldn't be involvedWith the Underworld dealers, carriers of mac-millersEast coast bodiers, West coast cap-peelersLittle monkey niggas turned gorillas.
Jay-Z
What’s the point of living if you don’t live.
Cody McLain
When you learn to talk people up, you will never talk yourself down.
Richmond Akhigbe
Act NOW on those ideas! As they say, you snooze you lose. Or as I say, if you BEGIN you WIN.
Richie Norton
Waiting is not wasting. It is a strategy for champing for greater things.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Feeling at home anywhere on earth, and a foreigner even in the country where I was born, I consider myself an earthling, a citizen of the world.I love nature dearly and all creatures that contribute to make it what it is. I see the beauty in all expressions of life, and I see how blind so many of us still are. Our planet is remarkably abundant and there's more than enough for us all.It is greed and shortsightedness that create the illusion of scarcity. I have lived through tremendous adventures and survived only because other people risked their lives for me. Realising how interconnected and interdependent we all are, I am neither shy or embarrassed when it is time for me lean on another to ask for help. And when I have the opportunity to help another, I view it as my duty and privilege.
Yossi Ghinsberg
I am a living soul dwelling on a planet that is afloat in a universe radiant with life. I feel so small and at the same time so uniquely privileged to partake in that inconceivable mystery.
Yossi Ghinsberg
Life and Death took a break,weary from their burdensome role.Nobody lived or died that day.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Until you find a cause you can die for, you are not worthy to live.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
There is never a right time. Except the time we make right.
Richmond Akhigbe
Everything around you that you call life was made up by people, and you can change it.
Steve Jobs
If you live each day as if it were your last, someday you'll be right.
Steve Jobs
We are treasure chests with more jewels inside than we can imagine.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
If America runs on Dunkin', do I detect a slight limp?
Josh Stern
Every part of Nigeria is blessed.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Forever, if she promises to never part the ocean where the river sings.
Delano Johnson
We could have been the greatest love story ever told.If only you'd stayed in character.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
They say never say never but we'll make an exception because: never would I change you never would I leave you never would I bring you downnever ever will I stop loving you. Now change those woulds to "wills" and you'll have a better idea of me.
Hope Alcocer
A limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms.
Orrin Woodward
Free society's organize around the "invisible hand" while Force society's organize around the State's "visible fist.
Orrin Woodward
Liberty was paid for by past sacrifices and given to us as a present gift.
Orrin Woodward
For all the enlightened nations that profess a loyalty to liberty, democracy, economy and all the rest, there has long been a readiness to look for a chosen one; as Carlyle pointed out, even the French, those great anti-venerators, those relentless beheaders of Great Men, worshipped Voltaire.
Chris Anderson
Living off others is a form of bondage—for if you take from a person his responsibility to care for himself, you also take from him the opportunity to be free.
Cameron C. Taylor
Old: Give me liberty or give me death. - New: Give me liberty or give me debt.
Orrin Woodward
Helping others without any expectation and without gain is just as much a gift to yourself as it is to the person you give to.
Kat Von D.
And that reminds me of another memorable thing Linda once said to me: "There's so much strength in vulnerability. It's the ultimate gift you can give yourself because you allow yourself to open up; to invite someone in.
Kat Von D.
Those who build are greater than those who tear down.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Great things sometimes have small beginnings.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A wounded lion is still more fierce than healthy sheep.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Greatness lies on the other side of fear.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You cannot aspire for greatness and fit in at the same time.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The greatest you is found in the kindest you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The first step to accomplishing the impossible is to achieve it in your mind.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The secret to greatness:do what has been overlooked by the great.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The greatest among you are those with the greatest love.The richest among you are those with the most joy.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Raging winds and clashing seasshould not keep you from victory.Stormy winds and raging seasgive birth to great destinies.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You are only greater than what you overcome.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The great compete not only against others, but against themselves.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Think like the great,speak like the great,act like the great,and you will become like the great.
Matshona Dhliwayo