Quotes by Entrepreneurs - Page 68

Genius is in you, but like a seed, you determine whether it dies or grows.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Looking on the bright side of life is better than looking on the dark side of despair.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is impossible to graduate from the University of Life with no scars.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The greatest thing in the world is not in dying rich but leaving the richness behind for the world to treasure.
Mayur Ramgir
A tree will not wither and die because the wind blew away one leaf.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A tree dances for the wind not because it enjoys it, but because it doesn’t want to break.
Matshona Dhliwayo
In life, those with heart certainly outdo those with ‘smart’.
Matshona Dhliwayo
At the end of every dark storm is a bright rainbow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Lies spread quicker than truth because they have longer legs.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When dealing with two faced people, it is difficult to know which face is uglier, the real one or the manufactured one.
Matshona Dhliwayo
I attended the University of Earth, and earned my P.H.D in life from the school of hardship.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Life is the song you dance to when reality sings.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Before you wear a crown of gold, life sometimes makes you wear a crown of thorns.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you have never reached rock bottom, you have never attended the school of greatness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Don’t be too busy growing old that you forget to grow up.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When reaching for the stars, beware of those who want to cut off your hands.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The past only dies so the future can live.
Matshona Dhliwayo
In poverty, friends are few; in prosperity, acquaintances are numerous; in affluence, associates are countless.
Matshona Dhliwayo
No tree becomes large without smaller trees hoping its branches get cut off.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When turbulence hits your sails remind yourself it is an opportunity to get to the shore quicker.
Matshona Dhliwayo
One fish in your net is better than a thousand in the ocean.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Beautiful gifts sometimes come wrapped in ugly paper.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The first professor you meet in life is your mother; the second is hardship, and the last is death.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't water anything that you don't want to grow in your life.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When fortune favors fools, it is to punish them for the sake of the wise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Be slow to teach, and quick to learn. Avoid impious people, run from fools, and seek out the wise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
People can hurt you, but you must still love. People can betray you, but you can still trust. People can put you down, but you must still rise. People can oppose you, but you can still prevail.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If a man could outpace his shadow, he would still find it waiting for him at the finishing line.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The most beautiful rose still has to contend with ugly thorns.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When you wrestle with life, your heart inevitably becomes a warrior; when you wrestle with death, your soul inevitably becomes a conqueror.
Matshona Dhliwayo
One who cannot swim must not blame the water.
Matshona Dhliwayo
No matter how ugly a fruit is, worms will seek it out.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Strive to be more than number one—strive to be the greatest number one.
Matshona Dhliwayo
No one tries to stone a tree whose fruit is not ripe.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If there are many thorns in your life, it is because you are a rose.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When people smile at a rich man, they are smiling at his wallet.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The say money talks, but I've seen it sing, and even seen it dance.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you press grapes, wine will pour out; if you crush roses, perfume will pour out; if you afflict the talented, genius will pour out.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Power is like a house of cards. Leave it alone and it will stand forever. But if you try to build it higher and higher, sooner or later it is bound to collapse.
Felix O. Hartmann
Our minds become slaves to those we see as having total power to control us and to cause pain to us. We are quick to give up control of ourselves to those who have the power to rule us as long as they also have the power to feed us. This is the fundamental construct of a feudal society.
Majid Kazmi
Politics is not leadership. It never has been. It never will be.
Richie Norton
People who make big promises can also make big lies. Trust first, but exercise smart trust. You can be the most productive and most effective, but politics show up as ego and jealousy for bosses who can’t perform. If your job or task is codependent, you can be sabotaged. Always seek interdependence and people who are authentic at the core, not blue in the face.
Richie Norton
The parents of politics are lack of control and seeking to control. The parents of leadership are influence and trust.
Richie Norton
Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.
Jay-Z
When I rule the world," screamed the Bogey, "all antiques will be destroyed! Antiques will be things of the past!
Mark Gorton
People who taught me that no accident of birth--not being black or relatively poor, being from Baltimore or the Bronx or fatherless--would ever define or limit me. In other words, they helped me to discover what it means to be free...My only wish--and I know Wes feels the same--is that the boys (and girls) who come after us will know this freedom. It's up to us, all of us, to make a way for them.
Wes Moore
There is only one way to make money: sell something. You're either selling your time or a product. The secret? Productize your time. That's freedom.
Richie Norton
Work-Life Freedom > Work-Life Balance
Richie Norton
Freedom on the inside comes when validation from the outside doesn’t matter.
Richie Norton
The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles.
Orrin Woodward
Are you in love with your idea more than your reality? Change that.
Richie Norton
Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.
Timothy Ferriss
If you want to live the life you've always wanted, you will have to change some things you've always avoided.
Orrin Woodward
It was actually very difficult., especially during the first five years of the start-up stage, when all the odds seemed to be against us—this is probably true for most entrepreneurs. To succeed, you really have to put your heart and soul into it. (p. 71)
Injap Sia
I was excited to do something, even if I didn't know what it was. I think you need that feeling—that excitement, that fire—to make your dreams a reality. (p.59)
Injap Sia
In our dreams, we find the dreams of others, and in other’s dreams we find ourselves. No will is separated from others and no dream is in itself isolated from the will of God.
Robin Sacredfire
People always get exactly what they believe to deserve, despite the fact that they may be unhappy with what they have. We are 100% responsible for our destiny, and I would dare to say 200%, because we do create the conditions for the future we end up attracting to our life. But the challenge is in learning to see it, and noticing how we do this. Therefore, there's really nothing to regret about life.
Robin Sacredfire
Dreams are dreams until you make them a reality. And that won’t happen until you give up your sleep, Wake Up.
Mayur Ramgir
Don’t let your day dreams become your personally living nightmare.
Richie Norton
Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.
Timothy Ferriss