Quotes on Entrepreneur

Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.

Being a lifestyle entrepreneur is about building a business around your lifestyle rather than a lifestyle around your business. You need to figure out what your ideal lifestyle is first.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.

The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.

I have met many entrepreneurs who have the passion and even the work ethic to succeed - but who are so obsessed with an idea that they don't see its obvious flaws. Think about that. If you can't even acknowledge your failures, how can you cut the rope and move on?

We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

If you just do something, then you're a five-year wonder and, goodbye, you're gone. But if people feel it's worthwhile, not only do they copy but they want to learn how to do it To me, that's what it's all about. If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?' It was the teaching of others so that they could take my work and take it further.

If you don't like your situation in life, don't fret or worry--do something about it. Worry less, and act more.

When things are at their worst, I find something always happens.

Sometimes crazy just isn't enough.

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

If you just work on stuff that you like and you're passionate about, you don't have to have a master plan with how things will play out.

It is important for young entrepreneurs to be adequately self-aware to know what they do not know.

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.