Quotes by Entrepreneurs - Page 33

CRM doesn't have to be hard, if you plan for how all the pieces will work together BEFORE you start your implementation.
Lars Helgeson
In looking at waste as an entirely modern, man-made idea, I stopped viewing garbage as garbage and instead slowly started to see it as a commodity.
Tom Szaky
People are accustomed to thinking of accounting as dry and boring, a necessary evil used primarily to prepare financial reports and survive audits, but that is because accounting is something that has become taken for granted.
Eric Ries
Make your customers comfortable and they will give you their lives.
Paul Orfalea
The idea of finding value in what people are willing to pay to get rid of it one of the fundamental backbones of ecocapitalism, as I think of it now.
Tom Szaky
Delegating your accountabilities is abdication
Michael E. Gerber
The goal of management is to remove obstacles.
Paul Orfalea
A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
Richard Branson
Good brands reflect the histories of the time and the group of people that made them. They can not be copied. They can not be recycled.
Richard Branson
I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!
Jay-Z
Fun is at the core of the way I like to do business and it has been key to everything I've done from the outset. More than any other element, fun is the secret of Virgin's success. I am aware that the ideas of business as being fun and creative goes right against the grain of convention, and it's certainly not how the they teach it at some of those business schools, where business means hard grind and lots of 'discounted cash flows' and net' present values'.
Richard Branson
My advice was to start a policy of making reversible decisions before anyone left the meeting or the office. In a startup, it doesn’t matter if you’re 100 percent right 100 percent of the time. What matters is having forward momentum and a tight fact-based data/metrics feedback loop to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions. That’s why startups are agile. By the time a big company gets the committee to organize the subcommittee to pick a meeting date, your startup could have made 20 decisions, reversed five of them and implemented the fifteen that worked.
Steven Gary Blank
Steve Jobs gave a small private presentation about the iTunes Music Store to some independent record label people. My favorite line of the day was when people kept raising their hand saying, "Does it do [x]?", "Do you plan to add [y]?". Finally Jobs said, "Wait wait — put your hands down. Listen: I know you have a thousand ideas for all the cool features iTunes could have. So do we. But we don't want a thousand features. That would be ugly. Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.
Derek Sivers
Y'know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations, like sitting on frozen peas after a vasectomy
Josh Stern
I suppose men, even myself, are perpetually boys. The sons of parents who provide the staples of what makes up a life— a home, an example of what it means to be human, however fucked up that may be. We are molded by impressions and an example, single days that stick out, and wounds that split us open and never close. We take on other people’s pain and sometimes make them ours.
M. Spio
And then there's that person that no matter what, they'll answer your call at 4 am. Your 4am-er. They'll say exactly what you need to hear to bring you back to earth. Your comfort, your voice of reason, your hit upside the head. And he'll always be my 4 am-er.
Hope Alcocer
Every person you meet has been assigned to play a role in your story as you are assigned to play one in someone else’s. I often say that the people we come across can be one of the four kinds. They can be like pebbles, fountains, quagmire or bridges. Pebbles are those who you meet commonly and in abundance. They do not facilitate anything great but they help you continue walking on this journey of life. Everyone you cross in life without really connecting with them are pebbles. Then there are fountains – who spring water of happiness on you. They bring positivity and joy; they nourish your soul and irrigate the seeds of good thoughts. Your friends, well-wishers are all fountains. Then, on the other end of the spectrum, you have quagmires. These are the people who cause you pain. Now, even some pebbles may have caused you pain as it happens if you tread on a barbed pebble but the difference is that quagmires do that on purpose. They pull you down, induce fear and negativity by discouraging you and worrying you. They will not let you move on – that’s why they keep you bogged down in your failures. Finally, the rarest ones are the bridges – they connect you to unchartered ground that you wouldn’t have reached on your own. They unite you to your destiny. With them, your plane of consciousness expands, you see things you have not seen before; your life becomes more aware, more enlightened. Your parents, your teachers and anyone who touches your life and transcends it into something more beautiful – they are all bridges.
Nistha Tripathi
Good friends are divine instruments.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Every friend we have represents a new world, a world that may not have existed had they not come into our life.
Steven Aitchison
Friendship Lasts long when the terms are clear!
Ritu Raj
Always take the job, pursue the life, and have the friends that allow you to have as much freedom as possible.
James Altucher
Friends might lose touch but never lose feelings
Josh Stern
Every invention began as an imagination.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
The road to success is longer than you'd like, but shorter than you imagine.
Tim Fargo
Life is a dream made real through the power of our imaginations.
Orrin Woodward
Longterm success begins with the longterm imagination to envision the life you've always wanted.
Orrin Woodward
Poetry can take you places that were once only traveled by your imagination.
Delano Johnson
The idea is that if you practice the Naikan part of Constructive Living, life becomes a series of small miracles, and you may start to notice everything that goes right in a typical life and not the few things that go wrong.
Will Schwalbe
And then there is the most dangerous risk of all -- the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.
Randy Komisar
Whenever I see all around , I see nothing except atoms & molecules
Amit Gupta
Your dissatisfaction with yourself speaks of a self-absorption, a vanity, which always gets in the way of your truly coming to rejoice in life.
Matias Dalsgaard
When it is imperative to make a vivid offering towards life then a simulated introspection for all possible dimensions may be endured to establish a relationship with external world and world within
Amit Gupta
IF PEOPLE ARE NOT LAUGHING AT YOUR GOALS, YOUR GOALS ARER TOO SMALL
Alex Haditaghi
Some journeys don't have endings, they lead to new beginnings. These are the journeys that lead to great adventures!
Alex Haditaghi
Dr. Suess said: 'Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened..' I tell my dates: 'Don't cry because it happened, smile because it's over
Josh Stern
I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don’t think being sad is to be avoided. It’s apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling anything is good, I think. Maybe that’s sadistic of me.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
We choose what and how we believe, and our beliefs are tools that we then use to make things happen ... or not
Sophia Amoruso
When you don't have the pressure of pleasing someone else and do something because you love doing it, that's when the best works are born.
Vishwas Mudagal
Creativity vs. inspiration: inspiration makes a copy, creativity makes something completely new.
Hannah Garrison
If you love your dad, it’s tough when he dies. If you don’t like your dad, it’s tough when he dies. Because you lose that guy. Whatever you didn’t get, you miss. And what you did get, you miss.
Jimmy Iovine
Sometimes we hold the world in our hands, but in our greed for more let it fall, losing everything that we once had.
Felix O. Hartmann
Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage.
Tim Fargo
I will look at the past, but I will not stare at it.
M. Spio
Rejecting God's truth b/c of mankind's hypocrisy is like rejecting mathematical truth b/c mankind's incompetence.
Orrin Woodward
What happens when you give people a 2nd chance? They blame you for it. What happens when you give people a 3rd chance? They ridicule you. What happens when you give them a 4th chance? They make sure they will have a 5th. What happens when you give them a 5th? They blame you for everything and laugh at you. What happens when you give them a 6th? At this point, they try to kill you by accident before you even have another chance of leaving them. What happens when you give them a 7th chance? They punish you for all the chances you have given them before and betray you in the most horrible way they can, proving that they didn’t deserve not even one chance at anything. Forgiveness is not for everyone, and those that deserve it never reach the point of even needing it.
Robin Sacredfire
I have finally figured out the meaning of life: there's no such thing. And that's a beautiful thing, because that means that WE get to choose it ourselves. Life has no meaning besides the meaning you give it. You are indeed the author of your destiny. So why not write a book worth reading?
Dean Bokhari
Loss of worldly riches is better than loss of heavenly treasures.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Good can exist without evil,but evil cannot exist without good.The former is eternal,the latter is temporal.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you ask God for love,He may give you someone to forgive.If you ask God for patience,He may give you someone to bear.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Fools do not acknowledge God,the proud reject Him,the wise embrace Him,and the righteous worship Him.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Spiritual battles have greater consequences than earthly wars.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Welcome the righteous,avoid the wicked,and yet open both arms to the repentant.Whoever receives them receives God.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The slightest act of love holds greater spiritual power than a thousand rituals.
Matshona Dhliwayo
One gains more from a fast than a feast.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Pray greatly.Pray gladly.Pray graciously.Pray gallantly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Pray patiently.Pray purposefully.Pray painstakingly.Pray perfectly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Pray daily.Pray daringly.Pray desperately.Pray determinedly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Pray sensibly.Pray scrupulously.Pray selflessly.Pray seriously.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love in your mind gives you strength.Love in your heart gives you fortitude.Love in your soul gives you influence.Love in your life gives you power.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The Blessing #2:May love lead your eyes to look out for others,may love lead your ears to listen to others,may love lead your tongue to encourage others,may love lead your hands to help others,may love lead your mind to think of others,may love lead your heart to feel for others,and may love lead your soul to pray for others.
Matshona Dhliwayo