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"Business ideas are like those flying dragons in Avatar. First you have to find one, let it choose you, then be brave enough to ride it."
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"If you want an incredibly passionate, happy, ALIVE business don't overcomplicate things. Once all is said and done, the foundational elements of a successful business are very simple: respect, service, value and sales. Comparatively, everything else is froth."
"Entrepreneurs see the "no diving" sign and back-up to get a running start."
"What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?"
"When life hands you lemons, why stop at lemonade? Create an entire product line."
"Being an entrepreneur is like being a pirate. Go for the booty and discover new, uncharted lands."
"My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache."
"People have come to the erroneous conclusion that if they're not willing to start something separate, world-changing, and risky, they have no business starting anything. Somehow, we've fooled ourselves into believing that the project has to have a name, a building, and a stock ticker symbol to matter."
"Entrepreneurs don't have weekends or birthdays or holidays. Every day is my weekend, my birthday, my holiday. OR, every day is my work day. Mostly it's a choice."
"Jean-Baptiste Say may have coined the term 'entrepreneur' but he totally missed the opportunity to put it on a t-shirt and sell it."
"Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss."
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"Success = Wisdom + Courage + Discipline. KNOW what to do, be BRAVE enough to do it, and LEAD YOURSELF to doing it again and again."
"One of my relatives invented the sensory deprivation tank. Appropriately, most of my family has never seen or heard of him."
"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."
"The smell of new office supplies is so satisfying while being kicked out of Staples for inappropriate behavior with a file folder is so embarrassing."
"A product in the marketplace is the result of thought in an inner space and action more than the common place."
"My greatest expectation is that I expect more of myself than anyone could expect."
"Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success."
"If your personal brand were at a trade show alongside several thousand others, how would you fare? Now scale that to the global economy."
"If you're struggling to "think outside the box remember the box is self-imposed. Who says it has to be a box? Why not a bowl of petunias?"
"A degree helps to a degree, but your work is largely what you create it to be."
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