Entrepreneurship Day Quotes

Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones?

When you walk in silence your excellence will always speak for you.

You need to choose your association according to your vision.

Entrepreneurs don't have weekends or birthdays or holidays. Every day is my weekend, my birthday, my holiday. OR, every day is my work day. Mostly it's a choice.

When you walk in distinction, even the photocopying machine can’t replicate your unique quality.

What the average call excellent, the excellent call average.

One of the things I’ve learned about vision is people will grab it mentally or, have a crab mentality.

How you react when your back is against the wall will determine if you see what's actually over the wall.

Yes, content is king but excellence is his queen. ~ Onyi Anyado.

Logic and reason are the naphthalene balls we use to pack them away into a sandook called 'Someday'. But when that day comes we are too old, too poor, too tired or too lazy.

IP is an intangible asset—an idea converted into transferable personal property rights through patents, trademarks, copyrights, service marks, and trade secrets. IP covers every famous animated character you’ve ever heard of, the logos on your clothing. IP covers products and services you use every day—from flashlights to mobile phones, packaging to cars, food and beverage products, to smart thermostats. IP is not only for big businesses. Most start-ups and event microbusinesses have IP of some kind. 

One of the newest figures to emerge on the world stage in recent years is the social entrepreneur. This is usually someone who burns with desire to make a positive social impact on the world, but believes that the best way of doing it is, as the saying goes, not by giving poor people a fish and feeding them for a day, but by teaching them to fish, in hopes of feeding them for a lifetime. I have come to know several social entrepreneurs in recent years, and most combine a business school brain with a social worker's heart. The triple convergence and the flattening of the world have been a godsend for them. Those who get it and are adapting to it have begun launching some very innovative projects.

I think a great entrepreneur is learning every day. An entrepreneur is somebody that doesn’t take no for an answer — they’re going to figure something out. They also take responsibility. They don’t blame anybody else. And they’re dreamers in one sense but they’re also realistic and they take affordable steps when they can.

At the end of the day, if you’re wasting your time by not investing in yourself, you’re going to waste away—and that would be the greatest waste of all.

The worst kind of poverty is the poverty of vision.

Do what you love and love what you do, with excellence.

A person who values their goals actually values their achievements.

Entrepreneur, become so disciplined that even your distractions become focused.

Distractions can make a day feel like an hour.

Immerse yourself in the world or the industry that you wish to master.

The call of distinction cannot be heard by the average, neither can the vision of distinction be seen by the eyes of the mediocre.

The future is what I create today. Every day.

Don't just think out of the box, stand on the box to see new possibilities and opportunities in becoming distinguished.

Your comfort zone is not that comfortable.

Entrepreneur, make today count and but don't let the day count you.

Serving my generation with excellence will in turn mean my generation can lead with excellence.

In five minutes you should know if people have confirmed, calculated & considered your vision.

Spend one more day in pursuit of art that only you can produce, and somewhere, someone is envying your courage to do just that.

When you walk in distinction, you don’t compete with anyone but competition wants to compete with you.

Do you know invisible determination and effort will always accomplish visible distinction and excellence?

One of the things I’ve learnt about goals is people will write them or wrong them.

Every entrepreneur begins with a desire and a vision. Along the way, one inevitably encounters the difficulties of manifesting one’s vision in the world. But that’s part of the journey. It isn’t easy, but with one step at a time and one day at a time, you will get there.

My lessons weren’t specific to business, but they were fundamental values—integrity, humility, responsibility, work ethic, entrepreneurship, a thirst for knowledge, the desire to make a contribution, and concern for others—that profoundly influenced the way I do business and live my life to this day.

Always consider who you’re learning from. Don’t listen to people who are not experiencing the success you want.

God comes down in the evenings to chat with man, enjoy man's company and find out how man faired in the course of the day.

Do you know great people are continually quoted while the average always misquote great people?

Writing and achieving your goals is not failure, not having a goal to write in the first place is the start of failure.

With the world now a global village, your vision has to transcend different races and faces in different places around the world.

Entrepreneur, make today count but don't let the day count you. ~ Onyi Anyado.

If your looking to write a book, your creativity, originality and simplicity is what will distinguish you.

Your distinction shouldn't be measured by your duration but rather, your donation.

You have to be so disciplined that even your distractions become focused.

Not having a recognised brand & trying to stand out in the market is like going to the market without any goods.

When that day comes, I want to remember that the questions, frustrations, and believe that I am lost are all signs that I chose an authentic path, not a stagnant finish line.

Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering opportunity.

You have to grab the goal, visualise your vision, excel in excellence and then become distinct in distinction.

Entrepreneur, don't just read history, write it so people can see the future in the present.

The goal - at least the way I think about entrepreneurship - is you realize one day that you can't really work anyone else. You have to start your own thing. It almost doesn't matter what the thing is. We had six different business plan changes, and then the last one was PayPal. If that one didn't work out, if we still had the money and the people, obviously we would not have given up. We would have iterated on the business model and done something else. I don't think there was ever clarity as to who we were until we knew it was working. By then, we'd figured out our PR pitch and told everyone what we do and who we are. But between the founding and the actual PayPal, it was just like this tug-of-war where it was like, "We're trying this, this week." Every week you go to investors and say, "We're doing this, exactly this. We're really focused. We're going to be huge." The next week you're like, "That was a lie.

An entrepreneur is like a musician creating a new song.

Entrepreneur, you are your brand. Your website, business card, speech and how you walk and talk is your brand.

One of the things I've learned about vision is people will grab it mentally or, have a crab mentality.

The only day you should never write and achieve your goals is when the day ends with the letter y.

Entrepreneur, your message, mindset and mandate is connected to your brand, business and brain.

Entrepreneur, either your brand is distinct or your brand is distant.

People sitting all day for hours looking at a glowing light are bound to get ran over like a deer in headlights.

Work at what connects to you emotionally and ideas will come to you.

Entrepreneur, your either raising the bar of excellence or your exhaling at the bar which is expensive.

Entrepreneurship is about formulating a plan and then making choices, both big and small, that will help you to reach the next step of that plan. As

So, if you’re willing to bleed a little bit every day but in exchange you’ll win big later, you will do better. That is, by the way, entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs bleed every day. They’re not making money, they’re losing money, they’re constantly stressed out, all the responsibility is upon them, but when they win they win big. On average they’ll make more. 19.

I didn't have the time, but I made time. I didn't have the knowledge, but I did what I knew. I didn't have the support, but I learned to support myself. I had a lot going against me, but I had enough going for me. I had plenty of excuses, but I didn't use any. Everyone said I cannot do it, but I did it anyway.

The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is their perceptions of reality.

Don’t buy value-added. Be the one adding value. Create goodwill.

Opportunities are everywhere. The question is who is going to take advantage of them.

Without business skills, your passion or hobby will not translate into money in your pocket.

Just start. A small business can take you to the level of empire.

Your lack of confidence is the number one reason why you’re not experiencing success.

Realize that your life situation will never line up perfectly for you to start a business.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

Entrepreneur, you're either raising the bar of excellence or, you're exhaling at the bar which is expensive.

Entrepreneur, if your're going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind.

Know that the days that are alike are only the illusion of a reality created by your mind.

Recluses won’t find purpose living out their days in a sacred bubble. Partake in commerce, start working out, volunteer, go on a mission. Do freaking something.

There is no building in my town that can be built in a day

In this day and age, entrepreneurial and sales strategies are key to producing creative, original, digital content and marketing in line with current social and media trends.

To be a great business person, you must be a great observer.

Building a house every day does not necessarily mean that you are building a house every day.

Your best days are ahead of you, but living in the past is a sure way to never get there.

One of the most common mistakes that start-ups make is not focusing on building a brand starting on day one.

Reputation is everything when it comes to building a digital brand

Sometimes life doesn’t unfold the way you want it. But don’t despair, stay calm and go with the flow. One day you will realize that the present is better of what you had wished for.

At the end of the day, it's just grape juice. No one needs anything that I make. The last thing we need is another wine on the shelf. So that just makes me grateful for the people who do enjoy it.

You’ll never get anywhere with your head in the clouds if you don’t turn those dreams into present-day forward motion. Show gratitude for where you came by not regretting what you could’ve and should’ve done today.⁣

<...> I think we didn't know what we were doing. I think the hallmark of a really good entrepreneur is that you're not really going to build one specific company. The goal—at least the way I think about entrepreneur- ship—is you realize one day that you can't really work for anyone else. You have to start your own thing. It almost doesn't matter what that thing is. We had six different business plan changes, and then the last one was PayPal.

Some people say, "What difference does it make what color the winemaker is that made the wine? Judge the wines off their own merit." Like, of course. And I do believe that my wine is judged off its own merit. But the fact is that when you walk into places and people can't believe that you're the principal or you're the owner or you made the wine, it's mind-blowing to me some days. It's like, wow. That's why we need to continue talking about it.

Disruption has become the norm in business. But this doesn't always mean massive and world-changing disruption. Sometimes, it just means that the world is a bit more open to conducting business the way you'd prefer to do it these days.

If you would not spend time looking at it, do not ship it. One of the best quality assurance rules of thumb is to avoid publishing content that you would not consume. Simple, yet so hard to execute on. My audience deserves my very best. Repeat that to yourself every single day.

great. This is a good description of Rovio, which was around for six years and underwent layoffs before the “instant” success of the Angry Birds video game franchise. In the case of the Five Guys restaurant chain, the founders spent fifteen years tweaking their original handful of restaurants in Virginia, finding the right bun bakery, the right number of times to shake the french fries before serving, how best to assemble a burger, and where to source their potatoes before expanding nationwide. Most businesses require a complex network of relationships to function, and these relationships take time to build. In many instances you have to be around for a few years to receive consistent recognition. It takes time to develop connections with investors, suppliers, and vendors. And it takes time for staff and founders to gain effectiveness in their roles and become a strong team.* So, yes, the bar is high when you want to start a company. You’ll have the chance to work on something you own and care about from day to day. You’ll be 100 percent engaged and motivated, and doing something you believe in. You can lead an integrated life, as opposed to a compartmentalized one in which you play a role in an office and then try to forget about it when you get home. You can define an organization, not the other way around. But even if you quit your job, hunker down for years, work hard for uncertain reward, and ask everyone you know for help, there’s still a great chance that your new business will not succeed. Over 50 percent of companies fail within their first three years.2 There’s a quote I like from an unknown source: “Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t.

The secret to a fulfilling life is to discover what excites you, what you love to do, and then spend your days passionately pursuing, sharing, and manifesting that purpose with all your heart. And purpose is exactly that—it’s “the reason for which something exists.” It’s the why behind everything you do.

It’s hard to describe the feeling that comes with starting your own business. It really is so much work in the beginning that you lose yourself in it. You lose your sense of time, and you can’t believe how quickly the days go by because there’s no time to focus on much of anything else. But then you open the doors, and it’s like you’ve given birth to this new thing that didn’t exist before. Then when it starts to flourish, well, that’s just icing on the cake. To get to see it live and breathe and to know that this thing you created out of thin air can put a smile on other people’s faces is such a blessing.

Catch a customer with emotion and you will have a customer for a day; but, capture a customer with value and you will keep a customer for a lifetime. I truly believe in good, old-fashioned values when it comes to business. That is what timelessness is made of! At the end of the day, the question is, “Do you want to build a good hut for a day or do you want to build a good fortress for a lifetime?” Quality, value, understanding the needs of your clientele— that’s how you build a legacy. Connect with people, because you can never underestimate just how many people out there are yearning for any form of good interpersonal connection that they can find and when you can provide that as a brand name, you can allow the person behind your business to shine through. That’s how timelessness is created. It’s not created by luring people into a myth; it’s created by making connections, by remembering people’s names, by being genuinely interested in everybody.

The truth is, we are livestock. Hosts for a diabolical purpose. Free-range slaves. Like free-range chickens, we roam free in our container (a country), provided the illusion of freedom, but we are still held captive for our eggs—our economic impact. If you leave, you need permission (a visa) and your leave is limited to whatever the visiting container (country) allows, usually ninety days.

time is a fuel tank that perpetually burns, permanently sealed from measurement or manipulation. And while your total life rations are unknown, their daily dispensaries are not. Each of us is gifted with twenty-four hours or 86,400 seconds per day. No one gets more; no one gets less. How you honor (or dishonor) these life rations marks the difference between being further entrenched into SCRIPTED dogma or escaping it.

Live to start. Start to live. Don’t Wait. Start Stuff. People are innately passionate about certain unique aspects of life. You are innately passionate about certain unique aspects of life. And people are blessed with bouts of clear and concise intuition that drive them toward distinct goals and aspirations within their jobs and their lives as a whole.(You are not excluded from this group.) But people disregard these inspired thoughts, these high-potential opportunities, as “just another stupid idea.” Why? Perhaps they are concerned about a lack of support (perceived or otherwise) from others, or maybe they are afraid of what others will think of them if they fail. Whatever the reason, they convince themselves: “This would be a great idea for someone who has more free time.” “This would be a great idea for someone with a higher level of education.” “This would be a great idea for someone who has more money.” “Everybody thinks this idea is crazy. They must be right.” No matter the justification, the response is the same. These inspired thoughts, these high-potential ideas, are stuffed deep into the drawer labeled “stupid,” and they’re never heard from again . . . or the waiting game begins. People wait. They wait for that elusive day when they’ll finally have enough time (guess what? — you never will), enough education (there is always more to know), enough money (no matter how much you make, someone will always have more). They wait until the children are grown (news flash: just because they’re grown, it doesn’t mean you’re rid of them) or until things settle down at work (they never will). People wait until . . . until . . . until . . . They wait, and they wait, and they wait, until that fateful day when they wake up and realize that while they were sitting around, paying dues, earning their keep, waiting for that elusive “perfect time,” their entire life has passed them by.

Our team’s vision for the facility was a cross between a shooting range and a country club for special forces personnel. Clients would be able to schedule all manner of training courses in advance, and the gear and support personnel would be waiting when they arrived. There’d be seven shooting ranges with high gravel berms to cut down noise and absorb bullets, and we’d carve a grass airstrip, and have a special driving track to practice high-speed chases and real “defensive driving”—the stuff that happens when your convoy is ambushed. There would be a bunkhouse to sleep seventy. And nearby, the main headquarters would have the feel of a hunting lodge, with timber framing and high stone walls, with a large central fireplace where people could gather after a day on the ranges. This was the community I enjoyed; we never intended to send anyone oversees. This chunk of the Tar Heel State was my “Field of Dreams.” I bought thirty-one hundred acres—roughly five square miles of land, plenty of territory to catch even the most wayward bullets—for $900,000. We broke ground in June 1997, and immediately began learning about do-it-yourself entrepreneurship. That land was ugly: Logging the previous year had left a moonscape of tree stumps and tangled roots lorded over by mosquitoes and poisonous creatures. I killed a snake the first twelve times I went to the property. The heat was miserable. While a local construction company carved the shooting ranges and the lake, our small team installed the culverts and forged new roads and planted the Southern pine utility poles to support the electrical wiring. The basic site work was done in about ninety days—and then we had to figure out what to call the place. The leading contender, “Hampton Roads Tactical Shooting Center,” was professional, but pretty uptight. “Tidewater Institute for Tactical Shooting” had legs, but the acronym wouldn’t have helped us much. But then, as we slogged across the property and excavated ditches, an incessant charcoal mud covered our boots and machinery, and we watched as each new hole was swallowed by that relentless peat-stained black water. Blackwater, we agreed, was a name. Meanwhile, within days of being installed, the Southern pine poles had been slashed by massive black bears marking their territory, as the animals had done there since long before the Europeans settled the New World. We were part of this land now, and from that heritage we took our original logo: a bear paw surrounded by the stylized crosshairs of a rifle scope.

Common sense is a skill to learn, and it is the foundation of all good business.

Business is the school of life. Success in business requires success in living.

To be very wealthy, you have to program yourself as a machine with targets to reach.

The more businesses you have, the less work you do.

The connection between you and any business is knowledge.

Think big from the beginning.