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"Do not waste your life, in search for a job. Use your special gifts to create work for yourself."
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"Everyone has a business idea. But few have a team... and very few a vision."
"Do not waste your time and life, searching for a job. Utilize your special skills to begin your own work."
"Self-employed people work where they live. Entrepreneurs live where they work."
"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."
"The key to unlock your entrepreneurial spirit is your imagination."
"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."
"The fact that you have started a small business doesn't mean you should be thinking small. Think BIG! Start Small! Expand your territories!"
"Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want."
"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."
"In business, sport, entertainment and beyond an idea is worth next to nothing. The energy, effort, passion, talent, tenacity, strategy, resilience and resourcefulness to see it through and make something of it is worth everything."
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