Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical decisions rather than company-building decisions and in my view often reduces the probability of success.
Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.
Marketing, when done well, is about story telling.
What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
The key role of entrepreneurs, like the most crucial role of scientists, is not to fill in the gaps in an existing market or theory, but to generate entirely new markets or theories. . . They stand before a canvas as empty as any painter's; a page as blank as any poet's.
If you're going to be a successful entrepreneur, you're going to have to be somebody who can tolerate a high rate of change, you have to be willing to put a lot more hours into it, you have to tolerate the fact that you're going to make more mistakes and have a culture that responds to that.
I don't like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created something to make a good living.
One of the best skills of an entrepreneur is the ability to question. By asking new questions, new answers are found.
Whether you're an entrepreneur, a small business, or a Fortune 500 company, great marketing is all about telling your story in such a way that it compels people to buy what you are selling. That's a constant. What's always in flux, especially in this noisy, mobile world, is how, when, and where the story gets told, and even who gets to tell all of it.
Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.
God has the tough end of the deal. What if instead of planting the seed you had to make the tree? That would keep you up late at night, trying to figure that one out.
It is hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal development.
Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i. e. , companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.
Never shame to hear what you have nobly done
Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.
Giving up is the greatest failure.
Creative avoidance is the type of procrastination that affects home business entrepreneurs the most. It is unconsciously filling our day with trivial, unimportant work.
Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory.
I believe that as an entrepreneur, when you share success, it grows.
Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week.