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
If you're not working to get your business or investing operation to operate without you, you're thinking too small. Think team and systems.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of building a business that can function independently of the owner, advocating for teamwork and efficient systems.
Robert Kiyosaki's quote suggests that entrepreneurs and investors should aim to create businesses that do not rely solely on their personal involvement. By focusing on building effective teams and systems, one can achieve greater success and scalability, indicating a mindset shift from being directly involved in every operation to delegating responsibilities and empowering others.
In practice
In a business seminar, to highlight the importance of delegation.
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.
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When I started skating, it was such a small community. You didn't aspire to be rich or famous or make a career out of it because that wasn't something anyone had done yet.
The two most important words I ever wrote were on that first Wal-Mart sign, ‘Satisfaction Guaranteed’. They're still up there, and they have made all the difference.
I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just trying to get ideas, any kind of ideas that will help our company. Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
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