- “Nat and I are entrepreneurs. It’s been feast of famine over the years. One of the greatest blessings in our lives is that when times get tough, we are willing to do the hard and necessary…even if that means digging out cans from the trash can at the park to recycle them for money and use the change to get gas to drive into town to buy groceries (true story).” ― Richie Norton
- Entrepreneurship is very difficult to teach because original thinking is very difficult to teach. Sam Altman
- “Simplicity is complex. It’s never simple to keep things simple. Simple solutions require the most advanced thinking.” ― Richie Norton
- My Twitter account is worth more than my college diploma. David Perell
- Learn online. Build online. Sell online. Jack Butcher
- “मेरे आगे बढ़ने का रास्ता बिलकुल खाली सा है, क्यूकी मेरे पिछे बोलने वालो की भीड़ कुछ ज्यादा ही है” ― Anuj Jasani
- “Nobody wants a sales pitch. So instead of trying a hard sell, focus on telling a story that captivates your audience by painting a vivid picture of your vision. When you get good at storytelling, people want to be part of that story, and they’ll want to help others become part of that story too.” ― Ziad K. Abdelnour, StartUp Saboteurs: How Incompetence, Ego, and Small Thinking Prevent True Wealth Creation
- “I’m unusual and that makes me different from you” ― Anuj Jasani
- “When I will win I know I will celebrate less than this world” ― Anuj Jasani
- Lack of knowledge is never an excuse. No one has a clue when they first start. Matthew Kobach
- Behind every successful entrepreneur is a former failed self. Naval Ravikant
- “Transforming the complex to the simple is pure genius.” ― Doris P. Johnson
- “When you make money, your bank balance will increase but when you lose money, your experience will increase, and you can learn some precious lessons just by losing money” ― 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
- The entrepreneurs I admire most think in terms of decades and measure progress hourly. Brian Norgard
- “The value of story—of creator reputation—was vividly demon- strated in a social experiment conducted by the street artist Banksy during a 2013 New York residency. This is an artist whose work has sold for as much as $1.87 million at auction. Banksy erected a street stall on a sidewalk bordering Central Park and had a vendor sell his prints for sixty dollars each. He then posted a video of his experi- ment. Footage from a hidden camera captures some of his most iconic images displayed on a table. Tourists and locals meander by. His first sale doesn’t come for hours. A woman buys two small works for her children, negotiating a fifty percent discount. Around four in the afternoon, a woman from New Zealand buys two more. A little over an hour later, a Chicago man who “just needs something for the walls,” buys four. With each sale, the vendor gives the buyer a hug or kiss. At 6 p.m., he closes the stall, having made $420. In June 2015, one of these stenciled prints, Love Is in the Air—an image of a masked protestor throwing a bouquet of flowers—sold for $249,000. How much of the value of Banksy’s art is tied up in his name, his global brand?” ― Alan Philips, The Age of Ideas: Unlock Your Creative Potential
- My favorite quote about entrepreneurship is that to understand an entrepreneur, you should study a juvenile delinquent. They’re both saying: “This sucks and I’m going to do it another way.” You have to want to break the rules and prove that your way works. Yvon Chouinard (Patagonia)
- The true entrepreneur knows he’ll keep trying forever. Maxime Lagacé
- No one cares what you can do. Everyone cares what you can do for them. Jack Butcher
- “My life is all about risk, in the other words you can call me a risk, yes every morning, every evening, every night, every day, every second, I’m taking all the risks to make my dreams come true” ― Anuj Jasani
- Life is too short to spend every day doing something you don’t love. Jack Welch
- “Your mission or purpose is like a magnet that keeps you moving is a well established direction” ― Doris P. Johnson
- “Design your income around your dream lifestyle, rather than your lifestyle around your income.” ― Richie Norton
- Degrees are not useful. Skills are. Sahil Lavingia
- If you’re looking to become an entrepreneur then don’t waste your time going to university or business school – just get on and do it. Richard Branson
- Traction plus vision is unstoppable. Brian Norgard
- “If you are on social media, and you are not learning, not laughing, not being inspired or not networking, then you are using it wrong.” ― Germany Kent
- “The moment you think you know something inside out, is the moment you stop listening. That’s when you go backwards faster than you progressed” ― Hadi Farnoud
- Work for your customer not your company. Brian Norgard
- “Entrepreneurship means that you are the founder, CEO, designer, developer, vendor, human resources, trainer, planner, executor and hustler” ― Anuj Jasani