Quotes & Advice

Inspiring and Thought Provoking Advice & Quotes

  • "It's better to back a mediocre idea that is brilliantly executed, than a brilliant idea that is poorly executed." - Wilbur Ross (entrepreneur in Leveraged Buyouts)

  • "Be prepared for personal sacrifice and be prepared to work 27/4 to win." - John Catsimatidis (entrepreneur in oil, real estate & supermarkets)

  • "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill (former British Prime Minister)

  • "The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least!" - Unknown

  • "To succeed you'll need to know the risk/reward boundaries." - Leon Charney (entrepreneur in oil & real estate)

  • “High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true!” - Robert H. Schuller (American televangelist, pastor, author)

  • “The best investment anyone can ever make is an investment in oneself!” - Patrick Driessen (Founder & CEO at Seed Accelerator)

  • “You can’t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future” - Steven Jobs (co-founder & CEO of Apple)

  • "Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before a final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence. There are a lot of people out there with good and marketable ideas, but pure entrepreneurial types almost never accept defeat." - Lisa M. Amos

  • “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” - John C. Maxwell (leadership expert, author, speaker)

  • "Be prepared for a lot of rejection. This way you don't give up." - John Paul DeJoria (entrepreneur in hair products & tequila)

  • “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” - Les Brown (motivational speaker)

  • "Some people dream of great accomplishments, while others stay awake and DO them." - Anonymous

  • "Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire!” – Andrew H. Glasow (leadership author)

  • "Only a life lived for others is a life worth while." - Albert Einstein (inventor, theoretical physicist, scientist, philosopher and author)

  • "The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning - to create a product or service to make the world a better place." - Guy Kawasaki (entrepreneur, investor and author at Garage.com)

  • "Buy and annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation." - Charles J.H. Dickens (British novelist)

  • "Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration" - Thomas Edison (inventor and scientist)

  • "Normal life is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it!" - Ellen Goodman

  • "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." - Lao Tzu (Chinese Taoist philosopher)

  • "The business world is full of "received wisdom", i.e., the opinions of various business experts are often informed by untested propositions that eventually will be shown to be wrong. The entrepreneur should be prepared to draw on many types of expertise but always with a view to building his case "from the bottom up", always bearing in mind the old saw: "Nobody knows nothing." Since no one else really knows, maybe you have a change to figure it out!" - R.J. Kirk (entrepreneur in pharmaceuticals)

  • "Know exactly what you're trying to do, and know everyting about the business you're trying to get into." - William "Tex" Moncrief Jr. (entrepreneur in oil & gas)

  • “Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” - Theodore Roosevelt (former US President)

  • "There is no substitute for hard work!" - Steven Schonfield (entrepreneur in proprietary trading)

  • "Big companies are small companies that succeeded." - Robert Townsend (Professor of Economics at MIT)

  • "Innovation has no limits. The only limitation lies in one’s imagination. Innovation is the key to change and growth. One needs to begin thinking out of the box and create ideas to expand whichever work one is involved in. However, in the drive for improvement one must not overlook the fact that there are no shortcuts to excellence. One’s personality should be a yardstick of quality. A person can get right ahead of others by using one’s talents, abilities, skills and above all keeping excellence as priority. Each person should give his or her work the best shot and pay attention to the minutest details that really do make the difference." - Steven Jobs (co-founder & CEO of Apple)

  • "Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century!” - Dame Edna (Australian entertainer)

  • "Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown." - Ross Perot (entrepreneur in oil & ICT, investor and billionare)

  • "You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win." - Zig Ziglar (entrepreneur, author and speaker)

  • “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” - Mark Twain (American author and humorist)

  • “True leadership is the art of creating and clearly communicating your vision, hope, passion, inspiration and the journey you will take your team members on.” - Patrick Driessen (Founder & CEO at Seed Accelerator)

  • "The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does!" - Bill Gates (Co-founder & Director at Microsoft)

  • "The cover-your-butt mentality of the workplace will get you only so far. The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business; but it's a whole lot more fun, don't you think?" - Bill Rancic (entrepreneur and speaker)

  • "I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent." - Thomas Edison (inventor and scientist)

  • "The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today!!! The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer!" - Nolan Bushnell (founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese's)

  • "The entrepreneur in us sees opportunities everywhere we look, but many people see only problems everywhere they look. The entrepreneur in us is more concerned with discriminating between opportunities than he or she is with failing to see the opportunities." - Michael Gerber (author and entrepreneur)

  • "You can do anything you need if you just believe in it!” - Patrick Driessen (Founder & CEO at Seed Accelerator)

  • "In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable!" - Dwight D. Eisenhower (former US President)

  • "I’ve got a rule of thumb: Anything that’s worth $4 billion and costs $1 billion – buy it!" - Saudi Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud

  • "Imagination is more important than knowledge..." - Albert Einstein (inventor, theoretical physicist, scientist, philosopher and author)

  • "Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won't, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can't." - Anonymous

  • "If a company gets too large break it into smaller parts. Once people start not knowing the people in the building and it starts to become impersonal. Its time to break up a company." - Sir Richard (Dick) Branson (Founder & CEO at Virgin)

  • "Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory." - Mahatma Gandhi (political & spiritual leader)

  • "Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it!" - Unknown

  • "Time has a way of changing our assets into liabilities." - Peter Drucker (Management Author & Consultant)

  • "Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make!" - Donald Trump (real estate and entertainment mogul)

  • "I will tell you how to become rich: Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful." - Warren Buffet (multi-investor and multi-billionaire)

  • "If you judge people, you have no time to love them." - Mother Teresa

  • "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain (American author and humorist)

  • "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is NOW!" - Chinese Proverb

  • “Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.” - John C. Maxwell (leadership expert, author, speaker)

  • “A leader is a dealer in hope.” - Napoleon Bonaparte (Emperor of the French as Napoleon I)

  • "Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life!" - John F. Kennedy (former US President)

  • “Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary!” - Steven Jobs (co-founder & CEO of Apple).

  • “Whatever you want in your life, the key to your success is to transform your thinking, emotions and behaviour!” - Patrick Driessen (Founder & CEO at Seed Accelerator)

 

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