What I would say to young entrepreneurs is there's so many moments in your life where you have these dreams, and people are trying to protect you, and they say, perhaps, friends, family, parents sometimes, they don't agree with it, they think, 'This is just too high of a hurdle. ' And I don't agree with that.
It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.
Mark Zuckerberg will be a hero to many young entrepreneurs 20 years from now. Bill Gates will be a hero to others, and they will look to those [people] like I read books when I was in my teens about Rockefeller or Carnegie.
The harder I worked, the luckier I got.
When I was starting out, being a young entrepreneur was not fashionable. Parents would ask, 'When are you going to get a real job?'
I tell young entrepreneurs to use the leader in their industry as a benchmark as they work to create their own brand. Dont look at what your competition is doing - if you emulate the leader in your industry, you will achieve a higher level of engagement with consumers and make their buying experience richer.
One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you.
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.
I'm not afraid of dying I'm afraid of not trying
It is important for young entrepreneurs to be adequately self-aware to know what they do not know.
You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you.
Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out.
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
Always deliver more than expected.
Young entrepreneurs should spend an awful lot of time thinking about what they want to go into.
It's important to at least break through many of the conventional approaches. I'm not sure my way is better. I will say it's a new alternative, at least. I think my personal contribution over the last 25 years has really been to give a lot of young entrepreneurs a lot of hope: Acer can, they can. Stan can, they can.
All in all, the internet is a force for good, providing young entrepreneurs with access to an incredible wealth of information, has changed the way we see the world and is also a great source of innovation and entrepreneurial opportunities.
Every single person I know who is successful at what they do is successful because they love doing it.
The most challenging thing for a young entrepreneur is to think long-term. When you are 22 years old, it’s hard to think in 22-year increments since that’s as long as you’ve been alive. But it’s really important to view your life as an entrepreneur as a long journey that consists of many short-term cycles.
I think that Vancouver as well as Canada needs a boot camp for young entrepreneurs. We have already seen tens if not hundreds of people put their names forward to be involved in the program, and we just think this is an amazing way to accelerate what theyre doing.
