Quotes by Entrepreneurs - Page 32

A title from the1966 movie"The Russians Are Coming,The Russians Are Coming," gives a new meaning toa phrase: "wait a minute, we've seen this movie before
Steven Ivy Attorney Entrepreneur
The minute you stop caring about your business, is the same minute your business stops caring about you.
Steven Ivy Attorney Entrepreneur
Its easier to start a global business than a local one, make your business one where you can work from anywhere in the world
Roger James Hamilton
In the midst of battle, you need something versatile to keep your focus
Isaiah Hankel
Just finished [Capitalist in North Korea]—fascinating! What an experience. Wow." —Justin Rohrlich, Emmy Award Winner, Head Writer, Minyanville's World In Review
Felix Abt
A decision is only as strong as the belief standing behind it
Isaiah Hankel
Research on the human brain has shown it is predisposed to think in the terms of a story.36 This predisposition is continuously reinforced and strengthened throughout the life of your brain. Imaging studies have shown only a small, quarter-sized region of your brain lights up when someone tells you a series of facts. However, when someone tells you a story laced with those facts, or those facts in action, your entire brain lights up. Not only can you program your mind with a story — you can program someone else’s mind.
Isaiah Hankel
It’s not about the content we are creating but how much content our customers are creating for us.
Roger James Hamilton
Unlearn your knowledge about what WAS working to understand what is working NOW
Roger James Hamilton
Do extremely difficult work.That seems obvious, right? If you do something that's valued but scarce because it's difficult, you're more likely to be in demand and to be compensated fairly for what you do.The implication is stunning, though: When designing a project or developing a skill, seek out the most difficult parts to master and contribute. If it's easy, it's not for you.
Seth Godin
Creativity is a renewable resource. Challenge yourself every day. Be as creative as you like, as often as you want, because you can never run out. Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.
Biz Stone
Like it or not, we are all in business and the products we are selling is our unique selves.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Entrepreneurs are different beasts. Beasts who don’t give a damn, who kick ass when required, who stand up to a challenge, and who rise time and again with utter disregard to fear or failure. These are the beasts who run the world.
Vishwas Mudagal
You can run a business any way you like, but you'll run it better if you build it around your strengths.
Duncan Bannatyne
It is impossible to think big without thinking complex.
Duncan Bannatyne
Some people will hate you for pursuing what you love. Make sure you don't love them more.
Harsh Snehanshu
Business Plans: It's about the Process, Not the Product
Delvin R. Chatterson
Be Shameless. Experiment. This is the only way to identify your true passion.
Vishwas Mudagal
No company has a culture, every company is a culture
Peter Thiel
The typical industry approach is [retailers] to treat vendors like the enemy... If vendors can't make a profit then they don't have money to invest in research and development, which in turn means that the products they bring to the market will be less inspiring to customers, which in turn detriments the retailer's business because customers aren't inspired to buy. People want to cut costs and negotiate aggressively because there's a limited amount of profit to be shared by both sides. As a result of this "death spiral", most retailers fail.
Tony Hsieh
If you believe that you're doing will positive results, it will - even if it's not immediately obvious.
Sophia Amoruso
If you're not called crazy when you launch something new, it means you're not thinking BIG enough.
Linda Rottenberg
A friend’s 14-year-old niece was asked by her teacher what she wanted to be when she finished school. The teacher asked her to think hard about it and then get back to him with an answer. She didn’t know what to say to her teacher. A friend, on hearing the girl’s predicament, said: ‘Tell your teacher that, perhaps, the thing you want to be when you leave school hasn’t been invented yet.
Ian Sanders
Your Potential can far exceed your expectations
Cody McLain
A #GIRLBOSS knows when to throw punches and when to roll with them.
Sophia Amoruso
Don’t live like a CEO when you’re still a sandwich artist.
Sophia Amoruso
There's nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.
Jason Fried
You discover or re-discover yourself only through travel, and unplanned travel is the most exhilarating experience. I truly believe that not all those who wander are lost. But for the ones who are lost, wandering is the only way to find themselves.
Vishwas Mudagal
If you do still have to work for a boss at a job you don't like, as almost everyone does at some point, don't moan about it. Have a positive out —look on life and just get on with it. Work hard and earn your pay. Enjoy the people you come into contact with through your job. And if you are still unhappy, make it instead your goal to divide your private life from your work life. Have fun in your own time, you will feel happier and you'll enjoy your life and your job more.
Richards Branson
Remember, you will always fail in business if you don't try to open your own business.
Steven Ivy Attorney Entrepreneur
For organisations to become truly sustainable we believe it is essential to create a new organisation model: a more cooperative leader, a new way for people to cooperate inside the organisation and a new way for organisations to be measured by society.
Miguel Reynolds Brandao
I don’t believe it can be taught as if it were a recipe. There aren’t ingredients and techniques that will guarantee success. Parameters exist that, if followed, will ensure a business can continue, but you cannot clearly define our business success and then bottle it as you would a perfume. It’s not that simple: to be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running; and, if you have a good team round you and more than your fair share of luck, you might make something happen. But you certainly can’t guarantee it just by following someone else’s formula. Business is a fluid, changing substance.
Richard Branson
Every startup is a SME but every SME is not a startup.
Ookbee founder
I had a vision and made it happen.- Christina Lari, Olivia & Owen
Holly Hurd
Answers are free, mistakes are costly.
Danielle Tate
Most startups eventually pivot to adjust to what the market is telling them.
Alejandro Cremades
Though you may be paid minimum wage, to the customers you are the face of the entire company.
Sophia Amoruso
Successful business people became successful because they took risks. The biggest risk is that once successful, they stop taking risks.
G.R. Gopinath
one of the most important things you can do for yourself is have a strong sense of your own greatness... because many things and people will misjudge you and count you at what they thing you are or can achieve. Their limits are not true... yours are
Marsha Wright
could act like a CEO or I could really be a CEO, which means doing whatever I need to do (including asking obvious questions) to make the best decision for my company. No matter where you are in life, you’ll save a lot of time by not worrying too much about what other people think about you.
Sophia Amoruso
You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible. Most startups that fail do it because they fail at one of these. A startup that does all three will probably succeed.' [Paul Graham]
Alexis Ohanian
Trust your instincts, know what you want, and believe in your ability to achieve it. Rules and conventions are important for schools, businesses, and society in general, but you should never follow them blindly.
Biz Stone
The point of school, after all, isn’t to do homework. The point of school is to learn. It was a mistake to assume that teachers—or anyone else, for that matter—automatically knew what was best for me.Rules are there to help us—to create a culture, to streamline productivity, and to promote success. But we’re not computers that need to be programmed. If you approach your bosses or colleagues with respect, and your goals are in alignment, there’s often room for a little customization and flexibility. And on the other side, those in positions of power shouldn’t force people to adhere to a plan for the sake of protocol. The solution, always, is to listen carefully—to your own needs and to those of the people around you.
Biz Stone
Fear in the absence of knowledge breeds irrationality.We should always seek knowledge, even in the face of fear.
Biz Stone
If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people. But if you’re willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you’re now competing against a fraction of those people… Just by lengthening the time horizon, you can engage in endeavors that you could never otherwise pursue
Jeff Bezos
A business without sales is just ego masturb*tion.
Dan Meredith
An entrepreneur is someone who will jump off a cliff and assemble an airplane on the way down.
Reid Hoffman
The easiest thing to sell is truth.
Daymond John
We’re starting to see a renaissance of investors embracing the idea that scientists can build businesses
Ryan Bethencourt
There is only one way to get anybody to do anything do you know what it is? This is far from a trivial question. Business is, after all, the ability to motivate a group of individuals to move an idea from concept to reality; to take a theory and make it a practice; to gain the buy-in of your employees and colleagues; to encourage others to execute your plans
Keith Ferrazzi
A nation is safer and progressive when the citizens own or are involved in healthy businesses that can aid them enjoy good livelihood without any fear for tomorrow.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
In the last decade our attention span has dropped from 13 seconds to 8. To put that in comparison a goldfish has an attention span of 9 seconds. Don't be a goldfish.
Candice Galek
Don’t spend your time or money on being boring.
Candice Galek
Our business model has been to partner with bigger firms and team on projects to gain experience. A bigger firm always enhances my smaller firm’s position.
Linda Rawson
Abandon anything in your life and habits that might be holding you back.
Sophia Amoruso
If your customers love you, they will not only remain fiercely loyal but become your most powerful marketing asset. Lovability is the greatest predictor of business success.
Brian de Haaff
Great things in business are never done by one person.They are done by a team of people
Steve Jobs
Social Media= Business. Period.
Gary Vaynerchuk
Being authentic, and being perceived as such by your audience, relies on your ability to ensure that every decision you make when it comes to your business is rooted in being true to yourself.
Gary Vaynerchuk
If you find even the smallest way to make people smile, they’ll remember you more for that smile than for all your other fancy business-model stuff
Derek Sivers