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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."
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"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."
"Starting and profitably running a business is not just some achievement, it is heroism."
"Start lifting your brand off the ground with an excelling mentality becoming best at what you do. You can't afford to be an average person although you may have begun from a level below average."
"Make no mistake: if you want to make it as an entrepreneur, you simply can't do it on your own. This is a nonnegotiable!"
"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."
"Entrepreneurs pay the price of a road less traveled, while everyone else takes the freeway and perpetually misses their own exit."
"Entrepreneurs don't ask for permission. They act per a mission."
"Being an entrepreneur is like being a pirate. Go for the booty and discover new, uncharted lands."
"I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us."
"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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"No one knows your inner battle. No one knows the challenge you face. No one knows the sacrifice it takes to do what you do. But you're not alone."
"Live to start your stupid ideas, and start to live a life without regret--a life filled with meaning, freedom, happiness, fun, authenticity, and influence."
"Like creating a masterpiece, quitting is an art: you have to decide what to keep within the frame and what to keep out."
"If self-employment is the opposite of employed-by-other, than a job is outsourcing your freedom (time and talent) to a boss."
"Ignorance paired with arrogance (naïveté) is logical, but arrogance paired with awareness (ego) is toxic."
"Influence creates affluence. Affluence does not create influence. Affluence makes you more of who you already are."
"You don't feel like your best self when you fall apart, but you have to fall apart to become your best self."
"There is a very real danger present when we suppress our feelings to act on inspiration in exchange for the "safety of the status quo. We risk sacrificing the opportunity to live a more fulfilling and purpose driven life. We risk sacrificing the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others. We risk sacrificing the beautiful blessing of finding a greater sense of meaning in our own lives.In short, we run the very real risk living a life of regret."
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