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As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and sentences and paragraphs...The way I write is who I am, or have become...
— Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
I have wrought my simple planIf I give one hour of joyTo the boy who’s half a man,Or the man who’s half a boy.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World
When strangers on a train or a plane ask what I do for a living, I say, "I kill people." This response makes for a short conversation. No eye contact and no sudden movement from my seat-mate. Only peace and quiet. Rare is the fellow passenger who asks why I do it.I suppose I got tired hanging out in a book all day waiting for a story to begin. I write the kind of novels I want to read. And why the theme of solving murders? Violent death is larger than life and it's the great equalizer. By law, every victim is entitled to a paladin and a chase, else life would be cheapened.And the real reason I do this? My brain is simply bent this way. There is nothing else I would rather do. This neatly chains into my theory of the writing life. If you scratch an artist, under the skin you will find a bum who cannot hold down a real job. Conversely, if you scratch a bum... but I have never done that.The heart of my theory has puritan roots: if you love what you do, you cannot call it honest work.
— Carol O'Connell
All good writers write [terrible first drafts.] This is how they end up with good second drafts and terrific third drafts. . . I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them sits down routinely feeling wildly enthusiastic and confident. Not one of them writes elegant first drafts. All right, one of them does, but we do not like her very much. We do not think that she has a rich inner life or that God likes her or can even stand her. (Although when I mentioned this to my priest friend Tom, he said you can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
— Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.
— Robert Hughes
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.
— Leo Rosten
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a locked cell, or, when it gets tougher still, the vague feeling of being buried alive--then don't be a writer.
— Graham Swift
I've tried to explain to people that I don't 'love' writing any more than I 'love' breathing. It's something I do and it's something I need. If I thought about it as a love/hate thing, I probably would have quit long ago. And then died.
— Allison M. Dickson
Her support was a constant, one of the few good things I could take as a given. And whenever I see a first novel dedicated to a wife (or a husband), I smile and think, There’s someone who knows.” Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot of difference. They don’t have to make speeches. Just believing is usually enough.
— Stephen King
I also know that not everyone will like what I do, and that there are many people who do love my work, and so I write for them, and for my own pleasure, and try not to brood too much over those who have different tastes. And I have written enough books now that I know the self-doubt and the anxiety are part of the creative process, and drive me to keep trying to do better, and keep me from becoming too cocksure about my writing, which is a form of creative death.
— Kate Forsyth
I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.
— Richard Curtis
...nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.
— John Irving, The World According to Garp
Perhaps the hardest thing in all literature— at least I have found it so: by no voluntary effort can I accomplish it: I have to take it as it comes— is to write anything original. And perhaps the easiest is, when once an original line has been struck out, to follow it up, and to write any amount more to the same tune.
— Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno
...the demands of writing and of real life are not always similar.
— John Irving, The World According to Garp
Writing is a 24/7 job. You live it, eat it, breathe it... the pay can be pretty lousy, but you do it happily, because you love it!!! That, and from the day you started writing the voices in your head became a permanent fixture :) ... oh, missed one out - You sleep it!
— Patti Roberts
Do what you love, especially if your sharing the word
— Ann  Simpson
For years I dreamed of having the sort of massive oak slab that would dominate a room...
— Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
There are three certainties in a writer's life: death, taxes, and rejection letters.
— T.L. Rese
Behind every novel is a greater story of how it came to be published.
— T.L. Rese
You’re a loner in body, mind, and soul. A writer who spends a day of solitude in the office is plagued by a mind that travels with the body. The work never stops.
— Bruce Obee
It is the cry of the separate self, ‘What about me?’ As long as we keep acting from that place, it doesn’t matter who wins the war against (what they see as) evil. The world will not deviate from its death-spiral.
— Charles Eisenstein, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
It is quite normal to fear what one most desires. We desire to transcend the Story of the World that has come to enslave us, that indeed is killing the planet. We fear what the end of that story will bring: the demise of much that is familiar.Fear it or not, it is happening already.
— Charles Eisenstein, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
I am saying that there is a time to do, and a time not to do, and that when we are slave to the habit of doing we are unable to distinguish between them.
— Charles Eisenstein, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
Life is a sacred bliss.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
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— Lin
Everything sacred begins with a circle of motion.
— Glenn Haybittle, The Memory Tree
We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater than ourselves, and will never be content unless we are.
— Charles Eisenstein, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
The state of interbeing is a vulnerable state. It is the vulnerability of the naive altruist, of the trusting lover, of the unguarded sharer. To enter it, one must leave behind the seeming shelter of a control-based life, protected by walls of cynicism, judgment, and blame.
— Charles Eisenstein, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in the program of life we are offered. When the conscious mind cannot find a reason to say no, the unconscious says no in its own way.
— Charles Eisenstein, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
It has always been difficult for Jews to take Christians serious, mostly because Christians lack the fundamentals that religious Jews learn in their youth. It remains an embarrassing fact, that modern Jews can comprehend the New Testament better than modern Christians. There is no excuse for this. Christians have dropped the ball and should be anxious to remedy that neglect. Not only would they benefit themselves, but their community too.
— Michael Ben Zehabe, The Meaning of Hebrew Letters: A Hebrew Language Program for Christians
Is it too much to ask, to live in a world where our human gifts go toward the benefit of all? Where our daily activities contribute to the healing of the biosphere and the well-being of other people?
— Charles Eisenstein, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
We are not just a skin-encapsulated ego, a soul encased in flesh. We are each other and we are the world.
— Charles Eisenstein, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the same side: the side of war.
— Charles Eisenstein, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
The holistic acupuncturist and the sea turtle rescuer may not be able to explain the feeling, 'We are serving the same thing,' but they are. Both are in service to an emerging story of the People that is the defining mythology of a new kind of civilization.
— Charles Eisenstein, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation.
— Charles Eisenstein, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
People don't buy what you do
—  they buy why you do it. And what you do simply proves what you believe
This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship - the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
— Peter F. Drucker, Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles
A company should limit its growth based on its ability to attract enough of the right people.
— James C. Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
— Nolan Bushnell
Entrepreneurship rests on a theory of economy and society. The theory sees change as normal and indeed as healthy. And it sees the major task in society - and especially in the economy - as doing something different rather than doing better what is already being done. That is basically what Say, two hundred years ago, meant when he coined the term entrepreneur. It was intended as a manifesto and as a declaration of dissent: the entrepreneur upsets and disorganizes. As Joseph Schumpeter formulated it, his task is "creative destruction.
— Peter F. Drucker, Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles
Many people have serious academic degrees but cannot find a job, and sadly their degrees are so limited that they cannot even think about how to create a job for themselves.
— Haki R. Madhubuti
I think a great entrepreneur is learning every day. An entrepreneur is somebody that doesn’t take no for an answer — they’re going to figure something out. They also take responsibility. They don’t blame anybody else. And they’re dreamers in one sense but they’re also realistic and they take affordable steps when they can.
— Damon John
The companies that refused to make hard choices, or refused to admit that anything much was happening, fared badly. If they survive, it is only because their respective governments will not let them go under.
— Peter F. Drucker, Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles
The people who work within these industries or public services know that there are basic flaws. But they are almost forced to ignore them and to concentrate instead on patching here, improving there, fighting the fire or caulking that crack. They are thus unable to take the innovation seriously, let alone to try to compete with it. They do not, as a rule, even notice it until it has grown so big as to encroach on their industry or service, by which time it has become irreversible. In the meantime, the innovators have the field to themselves.
— Peter F. Drucker, Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles
Mom & pop stores are not about something small; they are about something big. Ninety percent of all U.S. businesses are family owned or controlled. They are important not only for the food, drink, clothing, and tools they sell us, but also for providing us with intellectual stimulation, social interaction, and connection to our communities. We must have mom & pop stores because we are social animals. We crave to be part of the marketplace. 
— Robert Spector, The Mom & Pop Store: How the Unsung Heroes of the American Economy Are Surviving and Thriving
TZEDAKAH is a Hebrew word commonly translated as “charity.” One Jewish leader described tzedakah as having eight levels of charitable giving. The eighth and highest level of giving is described like this:“The highest form of charity is to help sustain a person before they become impoverished by offering a substantial gift in a dignified manner, or by extending a suitable loan, or by helping them find employment or establish themselves in business so as to make it unnecessary for them to become dependent on others.”Serve others in a way that helps them become self-reliant (or interdependent) and watch miracles happen for both you and them.
— Richie Norton
Creators always have an advantage because they make the stuff we consume.
— Richie Norton
To discern profits only when it is within the ken of the market herd is not the acme of investing excellence
— Amah Lambert, The Art of Investing
Goals and dreams are the entrepreneur’s mental energy. However, the same goals and dreams that drive his behavior will also drive him to an early grave if he doesn’t take care of his physical energy through a mix of exercise and relaxation. Energy manipulation is the ability to feed the mind with dreams and sustain the body so it will keep up with those dreams.
— Gudjon Bergmann
Success in America comes in over a million flavors... all you have you have to do is try one.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
a good product is not the secret to success
— Hadi Farnoud
Thinking big is a skill all entrepreneurs should be focused on cultivating.
— Stephanie Breedlove
Text, images, and video are the paint swatches of 21st-century artists — with a single catch: this form of art has to communicate, engage, and sell.
— Laura Busche, Powering Content: Building a Nonstop Content Marketing Machine
Its never late has long your going on
— Raghu Venkatesh
Love your work and success is your next customer.
— Alin Sav
THE EASIEST AND MORE PLEASANT PATH TO SUCCESS IS BY ADDING VALUE TO OTHER PEOPLE'S LIVES
— Linda Alfiori, The Art of Loving Again: How to More Intelligently Start Again After a Breakup, Divorce and The Death of a Loved One
The fastidious entrepreneur is a connoisseur as well as a poet.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Entrepreneurs don´t play safe, they play good.
— Alin Sav
You don´t have to win the game, play until the others get tired.
— Alin Sav
Do not ask intelligent rich people what car they driver, but what books they read.
— Alin Sav
Wrong partners cost much more money than bad financial investments.
— Alin Sav
I am dreaming of entrepreneurs who earn by giving.
— Alin Sav
The sales process ends/failed when the client feels that you want his money, more than his benefits.
— Alin Sav
The world is round, so there is no corner for anyone to lean against
— Kamal Khanzada (Ahmed Kamal Khan)
Good habits and intentional daily effort to turn excuses into solutions will help you become the person and entrepreneur that you want to be.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
Successful entrepreneurs don’t have better ideas
—  instead they have better mindsets for taking action. Action is what sets apart an aspiring entrepreneur from others.
It’s hard to describe the feeling that comes with starting your own business. It really is so much work in the beginning that you lose yourself in it. You lose your sense of time, and you can’t believe how quickly the days go by because there’s no time to focus on much of anything else. But then you open the doors, and it’s like you’ve given birth to this new thing that didn’t exist before. Then when it starts to flourish, well, that’s just icing on the cake. To get to see it live and breathe and to know that this thing you created out of thin air can put a smile on other people’s faces is such a blessing.
— Joanna Gaines, The Magnolia Story
Social Media Strategy isn't rocket science...but it might as well be if you don't know what you're doing.
— Sherree Mongrain
He who is afraid to lose, is not ready to win
— Fabrizio Moreira, The Gift That Would Change My Life
Walt reorganized the fickleness of audiences and the challenge of always providing something new. For me, this great entrepreneurial adventure was an exposure to 'yes if' consulting as a more useful format than 'no because'...'Yes if' was the language of an enabler, pointing to what needed to be done to make the possible plausible. Walt liked this language. 'No because' is the language of a deal killer. 'Yes if' is the approach of a deal maker. Creative people thrive on 'yes if'.
— Harrison Price, Walt's Revolution!: By the Numbers
If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far go together", African Proverb
— Paul Oberschneider, Why Sell Tacos in Africa?: 16 life-changing business strategies you can use anywhere, from the man who turned $400 into $200 million
If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together" African Proverb
— Paul Oberschneider, Why Sell Tacos in Africa?: 16 life-changing business strategies you can use anywhere, from the man who turned $400 into $200 million
Doug Rauch, former President of Trader Joe’s, views employees and customers as two wings of a bird: you need both of them to fly. They go together—if you take care of your employees, they’ll take care of your customers. When your customers are happier and they enjoy shopping, it also makes your employees’ lives happier, so it’s a virtuous cycle.
— Nickles McHugh McHugh, Understanding Business
Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.
— Jeff Bezos, The Long Run & Other True Stories: foreword by Jeff Bezos
Entrepreneurship is an art, you do it because you love it.
— Farshad Asl
Just like any other occupationEntrepreneurship also has stage of remorse.All you need to do is to go more deep to know yourcalling better!
— The Startup Mojo
A careless risk undertaken thoughtlessly or in pursuit of a thrill is recklessness, but a hazard confronted for the glory of God is a different matter altogether.
— Hal and Melanie Young
The death of the entrepreneur is solitude.
— Ernesto Sirolli
There are no overnight success. It's a combination of humility, sacrifices, tenacity, failure, and opportunity.
— Timi Nadela, Get To The Top
they don't serve champagne at pity parties
— Cara Alwill Leyba, Girl Code: Unlocking the Secrets to Success, Sanity, and Happiness for the Female Entrepreneur
If you you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together. African Proverb
— Paul Oberschneider, Why Sell Tacos in Africa?: 16 life-changing business strategies you can use anywhere, from the man who turned $400 into $200 million
If you don’t know how to get success, then follow a person who knows it and you will be there.
— Himanshu Bisht
Entrepreneurs are favored in neoliberal contexts because they prize ingenuity, self-invention, adaptation, dispensing with establishment hierarchies, and self-mastery. Church planting can be read as a religious incarnation of late modernity's entrepreneurial disposition.
— James S. Bielo, Emerging Evangelicals: Faith, Modernity, and the Desire for Authenticity
You can follow others into mediocrity, or you can create something that will be remembered
— Candice Galek
The bravest person in the Universe is not one with a Tyson fury's strength, but one that can invent a business idea during times of intense economy crises.
— Auliq-Ice
Everyone loves a flawed hero. I don't want perfect people. I want people who have a story, have been through some shit, dance to their own beat and still make it work, not the fake-arsed posh fuck-wits who look down on us slightly geeky weird-but-cool entrepreneurs.
— Dan Meredith, How To Be F*cking Awesome
Everyone loves a flawed hero. I don't want perfect people. I want people who have a story, have been through some shit, dance to their own beat and still make i work, not the fake-arsed posh fuck-wits who look down on us slightly geeky weird-but-cool entrepreneurs.
— Dan Meredith, How To Be F*cking Awesome
Because knowledge does not need an academic greenhouse. It can bloom, anywhere.
— Rashmi Bansal, Poor Little Rich Slum
Procrastination is the enemy of action!
— John Di Lemme
Regret nothing. Everything broken can be remade. And everything remade can once again be broken
— Kulpreet Yadav, The Girl Who Loved a Pirate
When you think of quitting, remember why you started!
— John Di Lemme
As an entrepreneur, value creation will always be your first line of defense against business failure.
— Gregory V. Diehl
Some people say, "What difference does it make what color the winemaker is that made the wine? Judge the wines off their own merit." Like, of course. And I do believe that my wine is judged off its own merit. But the fact is that when you walk into places and people can't believe that you're the principal or you're the owner or you made the wine, it's mind-blowing to me some days. It's like, wow. That's why we need to continue talking about it.
— Andre Hueston Mack
Tulga Demir and his company Demir Energy, LLC have successfully completed a special journey which can change the lives of many people…the creation of clean and green energy.
— Tulga Demir
Becoming an entrepreneur is like walking through flames. You either ignore it, deal with it or be engulfed by it. You must realize when you make it, the burns will heal and you’ll become a better person because of it.
— James Jean-Pierre
Nothing stops the great from being greater and so was with Tulga Demir, born in Germany, who started his entrepreneurial journey at the young age of 17 in the USA.
— Tulga Demir
Entrepreneurship is a scary city! NO water- dig wells, NO food- plant trees, NO family- build one, NO identity- prove yourself.
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
Entrepreneurship is not a career choice, its a way of life!
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
When you find yourself surrounded by sane people excited about your idea and lending support, you realize, perhaps, you are not as crazy as you think you are
— Paresh Shah
We’ve all been in positions where we felt out of place or not accepted for whatever reason. For me, that’s been my life. I’ve always been that person that stood out. And what makes you an outcast is what makes you unique, and you should harness that. Being a black sheep gives you creative license to do sh*t differently.
— Andre Hueston Mack
At the end of the day, it's just grape juice. No one needs anything that I make. The last thing we need is another wine on the shelf. So that just makes me grateful for the people who do enjoy it.
— Andre Hueston Mack
I feel like you can’t judge a book by its cover, that’s always been the story of my life. I can walk into any restaurant and people would be floored to learn that I know what I do about wine, let alone that I ran one of the best wine programs in the world.
— Andre Hueston Mack
One of the best ways to attract capital is to outperform the competition.
— Alejandro Cremades, The Art of Startup Fundraising
The best entrepreneurs are not the best visionaries. The greatest entrepreneurs are incredible salespeople. They know how to tell an amazing story that will convince talent and investors to join in on the journey.
— Alejandro Cremades, The Art of Startup Fundraising
Learning to embrace and savor rejection is one of the best things that entrepreneurs can do. Launching a startup is the time to find your ever-optimistic inner child again.
— Alejandro Cremades, The Art of Startup Fundraising
Business is still more often about whom you know, not what you know.
— Alejandro Cremades
Ideas are meaningless without a masterful execution.
— Alejandro Cremades, The Art of Startup Fundraising
Don’t expect investors to be throwing millions on the table for you to go off and buy a bigger house, get a new car, party half the week away, and generally upgrade your lifestyle.
— Alejandro Cremades, The Art of Startup Fundraising
If you want to glide toward money, you have to make sure your message is clear as a bell, and you need to ensure that you have a unified team capable of communicating it.
— Alejandro Cremades, The Art of Startup Fundraising
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 won 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, Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
Business success requires business preparation. You don't have to be a master tactician, but you do need to have a plan in place. This plan will act as a foundation for everything you want to achieve.
— Alejandro Cremades, The Art of Startup Fundraising
Passion without knowledge and the desire to learn is foolishness
— Abdulrahman Hariri
Making something is HardMaking something you don't even CARE ABOUT isEVEN HARDER .
— JON WESTENBERG
Money is always eager and ready to work for anyone who is ready to employ it.
— Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
Visionaries are especially afraid of a false negative: that customers will reject a flawed MVP that is too small or too limited.[…]The solution to this dilemma is a commitment to iteration. You have to commit to a locked-in agreement—ahead of time—that no matter what comes of testing the MVP, you will not give up hope. Successful entrepreneurs do not give up at the first sign of trouble, nor do they persevere the plan right into the ground. Instead, they process a unique combination of perseverance and flexibility.
— Eric Ries, The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
When I told my sister, who was a fashion designer in college, what I wanted to do, she said I was crazy. But once I got started, I couldn't turn back. Kimberly Goodwin, Snapping Turtle Kids
— Holly Hurd, Venture Mom: From Idea to Income in Just 12 Weeks
I love that I have my own business and I can't wait to tell Charlie when she's old enough that I did it all with her as my inspiration.-Carla Palmer, Cheekie Charlie
— Holly Hurd, Venture Mom: From Idea to Income in Just 12 Weeks
One thing that unites triumphant entrepreneurs, whether in Brooklyn, San Francisco or Great Falls, Montana, is strength of character.Individuality is the goal that we all strive to excel at in some way; the notion that we are distinct, special, that there is something teachable about our wisdom, something remarkable about our outlook.
— Brian D'Ambrosio, From Haikus to Hatmaking: One Year in the Life of Western Montana
A common mistaken conclusion made by companies is they think ‘people are cheap’ and want only the best price. That’s only true if you’re only giving them the same dismal choices with no differentiation and thus no value. That is the exact point when consumers start to look at price.
— David Brier
Don't go through the process, but GROW through it.
— Lakia Gordon
Visionaries are specially afraid of a false negative: that customers will reject a flawed MVP that is too small or too limited.[…]The solution to this dilemma is a commitment to iteration. You have to commit to a locked-in agreement—ahead of time—that no matter what comes of testing the MVP, you will not give up hope. Successful entrepreneurs do not give up at the first sign of trouble, nor do they persevere the plan right into the ground. Instead, they process a unique combination of perseverance and flexibility.
— Eric Ries, The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
The day you wake up thinking the world is yours is the day you start living.
— Samer Chidiac
This is what entrepreneurship is all about. You start off operating from a garage. And, end up, operating from a car.
— Sharad Vivek Sagar
Entrepreneurs build ladders, employees climb them.
— David Bareño
Entrepreneurship is a responsibility rather than a profession.
— Ameya Agrawal
If you take one typewriter and build 100, you’ve made horizontal progress. If you have a typewriter and build a word processor, you have made vertical progress.
— Peter Thiel
Entrepreneur, if your're going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind.
— Onyi Anyado
It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you’re new at this — and by 'new at it,' I mean 15 years in, or even 20 — you’re just starting to get traction.
— Louis C.K.
Your price makes a statement about your credibility. The more you charge, the more people respect you!
— Carlos Castillo, The Road to High Income: Why You Should Charge More: The Complete Guide to Raising Prices and Making More Money Without Losing to Competitors
Entrepreneur, if you're going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind.
— Onyi Anyado
Entrepreneur, you're either raising the bar of excellence or your exhaling at the bar which is expensive.
— Onyi Anyado
Innovation, reinventing the invention
— Joris Cox
Entrepreneur, your distinction can be found on Twitter, so, is your thought leadership impressing or depressing?
— Onyi Anyado
Entrepreneur, you have to be known for something, not anything, but something specific, why? That's your distinction.
— Onyi Anyado
Cut the crap! I don’t care how many hours you work, I care how much work you do in those hours.
— Pulkit Patel
I’m most endeared to the fact that they used gifts and talents that were taught to them by other enterprising women who looked just like them. These are gifts and talents they brought with them from Africa and other distant shores. These were gifts and talents women used to appease their owners, and make their lives comfortable. These were gifts and talents used to fuel economies and for building communities. In one book I read, nickels from the sale of chicken eggs paid the college tuition of three children.
— Robin Caldwell, When Women Become Business Owners
If you have felt any ounce of fear, insecurity, and uncertainty during your work day, then you might be an entrepreneur.
— Timothy Freriks, Startup Assembly Manual
Part of the reward of entrepreneurship lies in having the courage to believe in yourself and take action.
— Timothy Freriks, Startup Assembly Manual
It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you’re new at this — and by 'new at it,' I mean 15 years in, or even 20 — you’re just starting to get traction ... Give it a minute.
— Louis ck
Branding is not just a product, it's also a way of life, an idea, branding is actually leadership.
— Onyi Anyado
Africa is crying out for entrepreneurial leaders & for leaders who are entrepreneurial.
— Onyi Anyado
Not having a recognised brand & trying to stand out in the market is like going to the market without any goods.
— Onyi Anyado
It's called entrepreneurSHIP, not entrepreneurSTAY. Don't wait. Just ship.
— Richie Norton
When you walk in silence your excellence will always speak for you.
— Onyi Anyado
Gamblers take blind risks. Entrepreneurs take risks while visually impaired and feel their way up and out.
— Ryan Lilly
Entrepreneur, your either raising the bar of excellence or your exhaling at the bar which is expensive.
— Onyi Anyado
Sometimes, the risks we take are so extreme that if things didn’t work in our favor, we could lose EVERYTHING for the sake of our faith.
— D. Nicole Williams, Change Your Posture! Change Your LIFE!: The Passion Fruit of Purposed Pursuit
People think entrepreneurs are all about fame and money. I was never in for either. And, will never be. This is a much bigger fight.
— Sharad Vivek Sagar
Purists don't take shortcuts. For me, the vision is more important than anything.
— Sharad Vivek Sagar
Proformas rarely perform; missed projections are more often the norm. Still, we skew them up high, we miss but we try, for proformas which rarely perform.
— Ryan Lilly
Watch, listen, and learn. You can’t know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.
— Donald J. Trump
You will never see an eagle of distinction flying low with pigeons of mediocrity.
— Onyi Anyado
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
— Peter F. Drucker
Always deliver more than expected.
— Larry Page
Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.
— Anthony Volodkin
To become distinguished in your industry, you have to constantly manage, master and maximise your time.
— Onyi Anyado
Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.
— Paul Rand
Start local, think global & constantly raise the bar of excellence.
— Onyi Anyado
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
— Vince Lombardi Jr.
You can say anything to anyone, but how you say it will determine how they will react.
— John Rampton
Textbooks are not so much wrong as they are conventional – and an entrepreneurial idea must be contrarian.
— Jim Manzi
The day I realized I could speak well, I decided I won't speak for myself anymore.
— Sharad Vivek Sagar
As soon as he said it was okay to do engineering, that really freed me up. My psychological block was really that I didn't want to start a company. Because I was just afraid. In business and politics, I wasn't going to be a real strong participant. I wasn't going to tell other people how to do things. I wasn't going to run things ever in my life. I was a non-political person and I was a very non-forceful person. It dated back to a lot of things that happened during the Vietnam War. But I just couldn't run a company.
— Steve Wozniak
Entrepreneurs see the "no diving" sign and back-up to get a running start.
— Ryan Lilly
You have to make your own chances.
— Duncan Bannatyne, Anyone Can Do It
A 2006 Harvard University study shows that entrepreneurs who have failed in their previous enterprise have an almost one-in-five chance of success in their next start-up
— Dan Senor, Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
Sometimes in life, it has to be enough to be proud of yourself, even if no one else notices.
— Duncan Bannatyne, Anyone Can Do It
The one thing all entrepreneurs have in common is that they started. The one thing everyone else has in common is that they haven’t.
— Ryan Lilly
To be successful you must recognise your weaknesses and employ people with complementary skills.
— Duncan Bannatyne, Anyone Can Do It
Why wouldn't you want to buy something that made you money?
— Duncan Bannatyne, Anyone Can Do It
People say i need a Doctor!I say i am a Doctor!!
— PRIYANSHU JOSHI
The key to finding financial freedom is to unlock your entrepreneurial intelligence, work your network and lead the time.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
If you make the opportunity. you'll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
— Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind
There's no such thing as a superhero, but together we can world in a new direction.
— Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind
Entrepreneurship, with the right mindset, can help anyone reach his goals in life.
— Joey A. Concepcion, GO NEGOSYO: Joey Concepcion's 55 Inspiring Stories of Women Entrepreneurs
Gen Y's work best in groups, collaboratively, transparently, interactively and entrepreneurially - and have already created positive change in many local communities and around the world.
— Charlie Caruso, Understanding y
Ahbonbon’s mission to help people be successful in both business and personal life by focusing on entrepreneurship, healthy living, and food guides.
— Lynn D. Ahbonbon
...a long-term reputation is only at risk when companies engage in vocal launch activities such as PR and building hype. When a product fails to live up to those pronouncements, real long-term damage can happen to a corporate brand. But startups have the advantage of being obscure, having a pathetically small number of customers and not having much exposure. Rather than lamenting them, use these advantages to experiment under the radar and then do a public marketing launch once the product has proved itself with real customers.
— Eric Ries, The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
Most rich people have a gangster in their ancestry somewhere.
— Ken Follett, Winter of the World
Screw it. Let's do it.
— Richard Branson
The purpose of diversification is so that when one investment goes down or is not doing well, you are insulated from the result because of the others you have in place. In a job or career, most of us are trying to specialize so much so that we've ended up with all of our eggs in the same basket. That's not managing risk at all. That's putting yourself at risk." - Chris Lutz
— Chris Lutz
Think about this for a second. Why is it that we would not invest even a single dollar without diversifying it and managing risk, but do exactly the opposite, putting all of our eggs in one basket, with our regular income in our careers?" - Chris Lutz, Modular Career Design
— Chris Lutz
What drove me? I think most creative people want to express appreciation for being able to take advantage of the work that’s been done by others before us. I didn’t invent the language or mathematics I use. I make little of my own food, none of my own clothes. Everything I do depends on other members of our species and the shoulders that we stand on. And a lot of us want to contribute something back to our species and to add something to the flow. It’s about trying to express something in the only way that most of us know how—because we can’t write Bob Dylan songs or Tom Stoppard plays. We try to use the talents we do have to express our deep feelings, to show our appreciation of all the contributions that came before us, and to add something to that flow. That’s what has driven me.”-“It’s strange to think that you accumulate all this experience, and maybe a little wisdom, and it just goes away. So I really want to believe that something survives, that maybe your consciousness endures He fell silent for a very long time. “But on the other hand, perhaps it’s like an on-off switch,” he said. “Click! And you’re gone.”Then he paused again and smiled slightly. “Maybe that’s why I never liked to put on-off switches on Apple devices.
— Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
Successful entrepreneurship begins and ends with customer wants and needs, not what you want and need.
— Joseph C. Kunz Jr.
Successful companies are started, and made successful, by at least two, and usually more, soulmates.
— Guy Kawasaki, The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
Each year about 600,000 start-ups are launched. Less than 0.5 percent attract VC. Of Inc. magazine's annual list of the 500 fastest growing companies in the United States assessed over a decade (1997–2007), less than 20 percent of companies were venture backed” -“62.4 percent of VC investments were completely lost while 3.1 percent of the investments accounted for 53 percent of the profits for roughly 600 investments
— Mahendra Ramsinghani, The Business of Venture Capital: Insights from Leading Practitioners on the Art of Raising a Fund, Deal Structuring, Value Creation, and Exit Strategies
90% of Startups fail. Come in to be the 90% until we shift to rest 10%. 
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If your position or job is on the liability side of the balance sheet, you can be looked at as a risk rather than an asset to your employer. Another reason to be an entrepreneur." - Chris Lutz, Modular Career Design
— Chris Lutz
An entrepreneurial economy is what made America great. People didn’t come to settle the country several hundred years ago for all the good paying jobs. There weren’t any. There was nothing but natural resources and opportunities." - Chris Lutz, Modular Career Design
— Chris Lutz
Any feeling of security is only in your head. Anything could happen at any time. As long as you are strictly someone’s employee at one company, you’re a liability on the balance sheet. I say that as a business owner. We cannot trust any government to provide us with what we need, nor is that its responsibility. We cannot trust most employers either. Insulate yourself with multiple incomes either from different companies or by working for yourself in addition to one main source of income. Diversify and protect yourself." - Chris Lutz, Modular Career Design
— Chris Lutz
If you want to make money at some point, remember this, because this is one of the reasons startups win. Big companies want to decrease the standard deviation of design outcomes because they want to avoid disasters. But when you damp oscillations, you lose the high points as well as the low. This is not a problem for big companies, because they don't win by making great products. Big companies win by sucking less than other big companies.”-“The place to fight design wars is in new markets, where no one has yet managed to establish any fortifications. That's where you can win big by taking the bold approach to design, and having the same people both design and implement the product. Microsoft themselves did this at the start. So did Apple. And Hewlett- Packard. I suspect almost every successful startup has.”-“Great software, likewise, requires a fanatical devotion to beauty. If you look inside good software, you find that parts no one is ever supposed to see are beautiful too.”-“The right way to collaborate, I think, is to divide projects into sharply defined modules, each with a definite owner, and with interfaces between them that are as carefully designed and, if possible, as articulated as programming languages. Like painting, most software is intended for a human audience. And so hackers, like painters, must have empathy to do really great work. You have to be able to see things from the user's point of view.”-“It turns out that looking at things from other people's point of view is practically the secret of success.”-“Part of what software has to do is explain itself. So to write good software you have to understand how little users understand. They're going to walk up to the software with no preparation, and it had better do what they guess it will, because they're not going to read the manual.
— Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
A good portfolio manager knows which companies to keep and which ones to let go. Many a GP has struggled with portfolio companies that cannot meet their value-creation milestones, or raise additional follow-on rounds of capital, or generate target returns in a time span of, say, five to seven years. The faster you recognize those losses, the better it is.”-“As David Cowan says, “Just focus on your top five—the rest is distraction.” The harder part of the investor's discipline is to know when to quit.”-“You have to constantly scan all of those things and be willing to adjust your own sense of what's a reasonable outcome and move the company into a position where it has the maximum chance to succeed. ”-“Time is your enemy: Portfolio companies always take twice as much capital and twice as long to exit. Early-stage companies rarely meet milestones as planned and always burn cash faster than anticipated.
— Mahendra Ramsinghani, The Business of Venture Capital: Insights from Leading Practitioners on the Art of Raising a Fund, Deal Structuring, Value Creation, and Exit Strategies
Passion is the most expensive currency in the world! Start convincing others to get richer. A passionate team can achieve anything. other currencies come later.
— Hadi Farnoud
Amidst all the hype and hoopla around this business, I wanted to emphasize the challenge—it is seductive but the failure rate is very high. And those who fail have no good place to go.
— Mahendra Ramsinghani, The Business of Venture Capital: Insights from Leading Practitioners on the Art of Raising a Fund, Deal Structuring, Value Creation, and Exit Strategies
Business is a game like baseball or golf or anything else. I enjoy being a student of the game, and reading, and learning, and going to conferences, whether it’s building custom homes or selling or servicing medical equipment. A good entrepreneur can be a good entrepreneur in any industry because if you’re a good student of the game, the rules and the lessons are very much the same. And that’s the fun part about it.
— Ryan Diest
The wisest course of action is to take your best shot with a prototype, immediately get it to market, and iterate quickly. If you wait for ideal circumstances in which you have all the information you need (which is impossible), the market will pass you by.
— Guy Kawasaki, The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
I personally feel that I could not go out and plant the million trees, but I could go out and tell people to tell 10 people each, ‘Okay, all of us are going to go out and plant 10 trees,’ and you, eventually, plant a million trees.
— Sharad Vivek Sagar
Doing, not learning to do, is the essence of entrepreneurship.
— Guy Kawasaki, The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
You have to change your environment to serve your purpose.
— Ehab Atalla, The Secrets of Business
To crush fear doesn't mean you eliminate it; crushing fear means you literally crush it down into smaller, more manageable parts and tackle one piece at a time.
— Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret
It all starts with a tiny, stupid idea, then one thing leads to another, and suddenly, you find something amazing: yourself.
— Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret
And it is change that always provides the opportunity for the new and different. Systematic innovation therefore consists in the purposeful and organized search for changes, and in the systematic analysis of the opportunities such changes might offer for economic or social innovation.
— Peter F. Drucker, Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles
Try it out yourself. Test your idea with an experimental project. See what works and what doesn't. Then move forward or move on.
— Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret
Stupid is the New Smart.
— Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret
A complaint is a unique opportunity to strengthen the relationship with the client.
— Kevin     Kelly, DO! The Pursuit of Xceptional Execution
Always be conscious of the fact that someone somewhere is learning a new lesson watching you live your life
— Wogu Donald
Creativity will only cease when people stop thinking
— Wogu Donald
Don't wait. Start stuff.
— Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret
Attention deficit is no longer the supposed domain of Generation Y’s who were brought up on a diet of social media and new technology. A recent study revealed 65 percent of 55-64 year olds surf, text and watch television simultaneously.
— Kevin Kelly DO the pursuit of xceptional execution
Creative thinking poses a dynamic asset to every human
— Wogu Donald