The field seems to require a painfully uncommon synthesis of imagination and realism.
The field seems to require a painfully uncommon synthesis of imagination and realism.
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Other Entrepreneurship :
- Innovation is the ability to see the change as an opportunity; not a threat.
- You have to work on the business first before it works for you.
- No amount of VC money or good marketing can save a bad product. Period.
- Your lack of confidence is the number one reason why you’re not experiencing success.
- Millionaires don’t play the blame game but the gain game.
- Success is determined by how best you can utilize your time
- Successful companies are started, and made successful, by at least two, and usually more, soulmates.
- I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.
- People who love all fields of knowledge are the ones who can best spot the patterns that exist across nature.
- Entrepreneurship is an art, you do it because you love it.
- Someday is a dangerous word.
- A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.
- Traction equals satisfaction
- If only 1 out of 10 businesses succeeds, start 10 businesses. Just sayin.
- What’s dangerous is not to evolve, not to invent, not to improve the customer experience.
- Sacrifice is the seed of success.
- There is no problem you can’t take absolute advantage of.
- Entrepreneurship isn’t about luck, it’s about vision, time management, creativity, determination and goals.
- Better to fail on your own terms than succeed on someone else’s.
- When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.