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Quotes by Entrepreneur
"Your future self is created by your present actions."
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"Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to."
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"Small things done consistently in strategic places create major impact."
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"Your potential is limitless when you decide to own it."
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"You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other."
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"I'm anti-tax, but I'm pro-carbon tax."
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"My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn't due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships."
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"You may not have connections, or an education, or wealth, but with enough passion and sweat, you can make anything happen."
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"When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals."
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"Your life is your responsibility. No one else's."
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"I'm concerned a little bit with the culture of celebrating the fundraise. My dad taught me that when you borrow money it's the worst day of your life."
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"Keep your dreams bigger than your fears."
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"As you heat the planet up, it's just like boiling a pot."
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"Quit worrying about what others think. They aren't."
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"Dreams don't work unless you do."
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"If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are ok, nurture the sapling, and work out what might potentially stop it from growing all the way along. Anything that breaks it at any point stops that growth."
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"I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It's a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that's what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is."
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"A broad trend I'm completely obsessed with is mobile commerce. Like completely. I'm completely convinced that everybody's going to be buying from their mobile devices. Whoever can claim that space or be in that space, I'm very interested in."
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"It's not about the money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get done."
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"You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases."
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"Follow your passion, not the money. The money will follow you."
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"Your body hears everything your mind says."
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"When you take care of yourself, you take care of the world."
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"No one is you, and that is your superpower."
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"You can have excuses or you can have results, but you can't have both."
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"I don' believe in perfection. Perfection means that nothing changes."
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"Discipline is remembering what you want."
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"Confidence is not a requirement for taking action. It's the result of taking action."
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"I'm convinced that the people who do the most to make the world a better place are those who are passionate about solving a big problem."
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"When you change your mind, you change your life."
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"Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth."
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"The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply."
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"Everything you dream of is on the other side of fear."
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"It is possible for a small group of people to change the world."
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"I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people."
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"People are more comfortable learning about wine because now they can just Google, you know, 'Soave,' and say, 'Oh, O.K., cool'."
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"As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving."
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"The world needs that special gift that only you have."
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"If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste."
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"I think life on Earth must be more than just solving problems. It must be about having a purpose."
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"You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet."
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"I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving."
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"We are seeing the beginning of things. Web 2.0 is broadband. Web 3.0 is 10 gigabits a second."
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"You want to be a good person, but sometimes you need to have the courage to be ruthless."
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"Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it."
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"Clarity comes from engagement, not thought."
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