- Top skill for entrepreneurs: Being great at ignoring what everyone else is doing. Jason Fried
- “I am an open source person, I am 100% public domain, I have no right to my own life” ― Anuj Jasani
- “It’s only when you free yourself from external definitions of success that you’re able to comprehend the folly of this type of pursuit. Ask yourself: What’s the point of attaining a goal if it isn’t going to satisfy your internal needs? All you’re going to end up with is some form of a trophy (money, a big house, a nice watch, some press clippings) alongside a big bowl of unhappiness and dissatis- faction. You can only define yourself as a success if the result of your actions is the satisfaction of your internal desires, not that of some superficial, outside force.It isn’t relevant if society deems you a success—it’s whether you believe you’re achieving success that matters. For some this may mean fame and fortune, but for others it may just mean putting food on the table every night for their family and having a loving relationship with their spouse. The determining factor is how you feel and what you desire on the inside. The first and most powerful step is realizing you have the power to determine what success looks like for you. Only then can you free yourself from the myth and begin the journey of living your truth.” ― Alan Philips, The Age of Ideas: Unlock Your Creative Potential
- “Systems and rules are guidelines, leadership is lifeline.” ― Janna Cachola
- Aim to become not the best at what you do but the only person who does what you do. Keith Rabois
- Follow your curiosity. Things that seem exciting to you will often seem exciting to other people too. Sam Altman
- “to be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running” ― Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity: How I’ve Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
- “We have 1 million people who can entertain us but not even 100 people who can inspire us and that’s why I have chosen entrepreneurship.” ― Anuj Jasani
- If you believe so wholeheartedly in your mission, you will be able to overcome anything. Payal Kadakia (ClassPass)
- Profitability is a means, not an end. Freedom is the end. Sahil Lavingia
- Writing online is the seed of entrepreneurship. It teaches you how to clarify your ideas, make them useful, and distribute them to an audience. Same skills as building a business. David Perell
- “Start-ups fail for a lot of different reasons, but one I see repeatedly is ego. It presents as a dangerous sense of self-importance. Or the entrepreneur thinks they are the smartest person in the room who knows better than anyone else and either doesn’t seek out advice or doesn’t want to listen when it’s offered. Such know-it-alls delude themselves into thinking they have everything figured out, even though they don’t. For as hard as it is to elbow your way into the marketplace in ideal circumstances, it’s made exponentially harder when you don’t check your ego at the door.” ― Ziad K. Abdelnour
- An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it. Roy Ash
- To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it. Kurt Vonnegut
- Don’t become an entrepreneur if you can’t handle multiple degrees of uncertainty. Carlos Del Valle
- On the Internet, you can build a cash-flowing asset from scratch. No permission required. Jack Butcher
- We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform. Pete Cashmore (Mashable)
- “There is nothing more precious than time, I can give you millions if you can bring me back to my childhood” ― Anuj Jasani
- It’s not about getting good, it’s about getting different. Getting “good” is what you have to do when you play other people’s games. Getting “different” is what you have do when you play your own. Jack Butcher
- “Your Core Values are the “glue” that holds your business together.” ― Doris P. Johnson
- “Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Your life is a sales pitch. Jack Butcher
- 1. Fish. 2. Teach people to fish. 3. Build better fishing rods. Sahil Lavingia
- Entrepreneurship is a personal growth engine disguised as a business pursuit. James Clear
- “Be an opportunist, rest will follow!” ― Somya Kedia
- “Too often dreams become living nightmares when we turn goals into jobs.” ― Richie Norton
- Value is created by doing. Sam Altman
- “99% of the things we worry about never happen, it’s happening around our negative thoughts in our minds and we accept it as reality and kill millions of dreams.” ― Anuj Jasani
- “Some people believe in logic, some people believe in magic but those who believe in both logic and magic can become legend” ― Anuj Jasani
- “The fear of being poor or broke is a blessing, if you are a successful entrepreneur; but is a curse, if you want to be an entrepreneur.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana