Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it opens before hitting the ground.
Robert KiyosakiRead
Being an entrepreneur is simply going from one mistake to the next. You must have the fortitude to continue on.
Interpretation
Entrepreneurship involves facing challenges and mistakes, but persistence is key.
This quote emphasizes that the journey of an entrepreneur is filled with challenges and setbacks. It suggests that rather than being deterred by mistakes, a successful entrepreneur must possess the resilience and determination to keep moving forward despite the obstacles they encounter.
In practice
A motivational speech for business students.
Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it opens before hitting the ground.
If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Don't blame other people for your problems.
In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes.
If you want a solid future, you need to create it. You can take charge of your future only when you take control of your income source. You need your own business.
Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.
It's easier to stand on the sidelines, criticize, and say why you shouldn't do something. The sidelines are crowded. Get in the game.
The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
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A lot of times I'll see guys who are nowhere near the level of the board they're riding. They might love surfing and love how it looks, but you really have to work your way up. It takes eating a little humble pie at first, and stepping back to equipment that might be a bit slow, but do it.
I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
The thing we found out was, when you get to a Super Bowl, both teams are treated the same, talked about in glowing terms. But when the game is over, only the team that won matters.
Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.
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