Entrepreneurship Mindset Business Quotes

Blaming others is an act of refusing to take responsibility. When a person can’t accept the fact or the reality, they blamed another person or the situation instead of taking accountability.

If you have time to whine then you have time to find solution.

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

A failed entrepreneur has just passion but a successful one knows how to plan to keep that passion alive.

Every great athlete, artist and aspiring being has a great team to help them flourish and succeed - personally and professionally. Even the so-called 'solo star' has a strong supporting cast helping them shine, thrive and take flight.

Trustworthy is earned not bought.

Stop Blaming. Take responsibility for your thoughts and your actions.

Your career is your business. You are its CEO. Complacency breeds failure. As the CEO of your career, you must continually improve your skills, especially the art of communication.

Millionaires don't play the blame game but the gain game.

Quality is not for compromise.

Time, energy and money. These should never be compromised.

Most people set intentions wrong. The right way to set intentions is to be clear on what you want to go FROM and what you want to go TO.

Strive to be bored is a contradictory statement for most entrepreneurs. But we have to strive to be bored to make space for more if we want to grow our business.

The self-employed need business strategies that are relationship-based, not transactional, authentic to who you are, and right-sized for small business.

It is not your job to prove your value to anyone. It is your job to find the people that already value what you do.

We hire coaches for our mindsets, attend conferences to improve our skill set, work with specialists for every need in our business and wonder why we feel like we’re all over the place.

The entrepreneur’s mind-set is completely different to the employee’s mind-set. The entrepreneur finds it abhorrent to conform to organizational norms, whilst the employee finds joy and stability in all that’s tried and true. It’s not that one’s wrong and the other is right. It’s the mind-set that differentiates the two.

We are doing business in the empowerment age. It is our job to empower our customers to choose us. The moment you tell them to choose you, they will back up. The moment you tell someone to trust you, they won’t.

Not everyone understand everything.

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

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

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

Entrepreneurs don’t usually fail from circumstance, they fail from what I call entrepreneurial rigidity—a fixed mindset and unwillingness to change the business model.

There is an economy in your mind

When you’re self-employed, your success is proportionate to your personal development.

When we’re self-employed, much of what has been typical of business, marketing, and sales has creeped us out. We want to do business in ways that feel good to us.

The beginning of change doesn’t come from motivation and dangling carrots. It begins with being clear about what you want to get away from.

We stretch ourselves when the impact we want to make and the life we want to create is bigger than the fear and challenges.

Having a successful life and business requires that we first learn who we are, then do what we have to do in order to have what we want.

We used to build businesses with all effort and hard work. Today, we create businesses by paying attention to what the market wants and co-creating with those we serve.

Build systems for the business to come, not the business you have.

The biggest risk is not in what you build. It is in not supporting what you build.

To create success in your business, you have to protect your capacity to serve others by learning to work efficiently and effectively.

Your success is limited by your personal development- what you think you’re capable of, what you think you deserve, and the mindsets that hold you back.

Daily habits that create steady mindsets are vital to be sure the uncontrollable circumstances of business and life don’t derail you.

Make your mistakes fast

You need a healthy, thriving self-employed ecosystem. An ecosystem that integrates the three main elements of self-employed success--personal development, business strategies, and daily habit.

The myth of self-employment is we go into business for ourselves thinking we’re going to gain control over our destiny without realizing we are entering completely uncontrollable circumstances.

The potential of controlling and living a successful life according to your terms depends on how you think. Your perception is your world. You can create the life you want and in fact, you can even shape the way you want it.

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

Dear entrepreneurs! You have to have a greater professionalism, responsibility and a service oriented mindset to grow and thrive your business.

Harmony is everything, your central nervous system can bear witness to that in every area of your life...if you let your soul step to the open MIC!

The old-adage that business is business, don’t take it personal, doesn’t apply to the self-employed. It’s all personal!

Putting a stake in the ground that you’re self-employed is important. It’s the only term that accurately portrays your lifestyle and your business model.

We don’t let go of something until the benefits of what’s ahead are greater than what we’ve been holding on to.

Make sure you would be a customer of your own business.

Stop worrying about your competition; focus on increasing your value proposition.

I don't talk about my vision, I show it.

The safest way to be in business today and the way to gain as much control over your business as possible, is to have a business model of multiples where you can reach a multiple of audiences in multiple ways.

Hardly anyone ever becomes who they originally aspired to be. Those who make the best of who they actually become will be successful.

Out of all the assets that money can buy, time is not one of them.

One of the keys to success is understanding and appreciating your true potential.

If you don't care about your customers today, your customers won't care about your company tomorrow

If you really want to see the power of the customer, just give them a bad experience

If you want to improve your company's sales, improve your company's support

Bad customer support can kill your company overnight

If you want to improve your company's sales, improve your company's support

If you are not good at providing good customer support then you are not good for anything in the business world

Customer is not just king Customer is everything to your business you are nothing without customer

In fact without the customer you are not a company but just another word in the dictionary

Being a customer centric company is an essential part of your company's growth

You can never follow exactly what someone else did and expect it to work. You have to find your own route, leaning heavily on your confidence, trial and error, patience and persistence. It’s about 90 percent hard work and 10 percent timing and luck.

Success in entrepreneurship is very much like a game—part chess match, part poker tournament, and part schoolyard soccer competition. You’ve got to make decisive moves in a really strategic way, bluff on occasion when you want others to think that you have a better hand, and pass the ball to and from teammates to hit your goals. Sometimes, it will be a straight line to a quick score, and at other times, you will have to double back, up the ante, and formulate a new plan.

Listen to what your environment is telling you and let discouraging events push you toward more positive ones. Adjust your perspective and uncover the silver lining!

Networking is a deposit in the bank of your future and in your startup. It won’t happen immediately, but if you do it right, you will continue to receive its dividends for years. I, for one, can network with the best of them! You can too.

The major downside of democracy is that even the least critical minds will never think they are wrong.

Here is the key point: Once you have determined how many projects you can support, and what mix of projects you need to support your strategy, similar projects must compete against other similar projects for budget and staff for the resources dedicated to that category of project. Let’s say that you have decided to allocate 20 percent of your available resources to positioning options. Any new candidate for getting resources that is a positioning option should compete for that 20 percent against all the other positioning projects. They shouldn’t compete against other kinds of options or against platform or enhancement launches. This ensures that you will pick only the very best positioning options for your portfolio. What’s more important, it gets you out of the constant tug-of-war between short-term and long-term projects. The strategic choice is how many of your resources you will put into each category. Then within each category, the very best projects should compete against one another for consideration.

The most important behavior on your part involves dedicating a disproportionate share of your own time, attention, and discretionary resources to creating new business models. Existing businesses, and the leaders in charge of them, face little difficulty in articulating their needs, building a case for their support, and attracting people. Entrepreneurial initiatives, on the other hand, are usually seen as marginal or unimportant in their early stages. Unless you personally allocate to them disproportionate attention, disproportionate resources, and disproportionate talent, they will get squeezed by the existing business to the extent that they never have a chance to take off. Your challenge is to provide counterpressure to the inertial forces that lead your people to constantly attend to the demands of today’s business. [...] By disproportionate resources, we mean budget, access to operating capacity or operating assets, and, most vitally, the very best people. Ironically, these are the very resources that are highly desired by managers of the existing business, who are apt to hotly contest any other claim on them. Like the payment of disproportionate attention, the disproportionate allocation of resources to new business models has its costs. Every dollar and every hour of operations capacity allocated disproportionately to entrepreneurial initiatives is money and time denied the existing business. Disproportionate allocation must be a deliberate process, with commitment of resources being visibly recognized as a matter of strategic choice, not a struggle between long- and short-term goals. [...] Finally, you must be prepared for your organization’s top talent to work on entrepreneurial initiatives. This can create a painful dilemma. When top talent works on an entrepreneurial initiative, the current business is weakened accordingly. However, if only mediocre talent is assigned to the difficult task of new business development, the ventures are doomed. Furthermore, allowing ventures to be run by mediocre people sends an even stronger signal to the rest of the business about your real priorities. The smart people in the firm will recognize that business development is not truly a priority for you, and they will organize their own priorities accordingly. The message: If you don’t walk the talk, only the dumb people will listen.

Don't expect smart moves from poor minds.

We are constantly haunted by the qualities of self-interest and that is why we struggle to refrain ourselves from making fools of our behaviours.

The sin is not in the persuasion itself, but in the intention of that individual. If the intention is pure, then your means will also be justified.

if it's not putting money in your pocket, it's taking money from your pocket.

Just being on the right track isn't enough to guarantee success. You must keep moving forward and taking action, or you'll get left behind.

I don't compete with women, I cooperate with them.

Instead of requiring the person to change aspects of themselves to fit the career, it is actually possible to mold the career to the individual, and create a unique path to success.

People who go to work primarily for their income are eager to put in the effort required for it. But people who believe in the company and its purpose are emotionally committed and want to contribute effectively.

The greatest obstacles to an entrepreneur’s good intentions for long-term behavioural change are the many attractive short-term business opportunities that arise.

Those who dedicate themselves to planting and nurturing culture, people and organisation will reap significant growth and change.

The best leader cannot provide the necessary constant renewal if he or she lacks entrepreneurial skills.

Experienced entrepreneurs understand how to treat risk as a decision for a benefit, accepting a future loss with a determinable probability of occurrence and an uncertain magnitude.

Successful management of the company's evolution and transformation is the core task of entrepreneurs. But it is also one of the greatest weaknesses in many places.

Business superheroes are strong, courageous and persevering, but still can’t make big and complex things happen successfully on their own.

Even the most influential person in a company's workforce will not be able to permanently compensate for the deficiencies of the corporate culture demonstrated by the company's management.

The size of the individual company is irrelevant when it comes to the conscious development of the desired corporate culture. For example, if a company has three employees and one person resigns because of poor company culture, the company still loses one-third of its workforce as a result.

Effective corporate culture does not begin with feel-good or happiness management. It starts with awareness, consistency and authenticity at the top of the company.

It is a fundamental mistake when companies with leadership problems, with inconsistent or exhausting management use incentives or well-being measures as a last resort instead of changing their leadership style or culture.

Successful entrepreneurs recognise which business elements need to be maintained, and where changes need to be brought about.

On the one hand, many people show great enthusiasm for strategy development, but on the other hand, a large proportion of them have used up this enthusiasm by the time of implementation at the latest.

The successful entrepreneur manages to strike the right balance between preservation and renewal.

Every entrepreneur leads, but not every leader acts as an entrepreneur, because even leaders are not constantly interested in creating something new.

Entrepreneurs who succeed in employing and promoting the right people for the work within their business and in establishing an appropriate corporate organizational surrounding create the conditions for healthy growth.

Successful management of the company's evolution and transformation is the core task of entrepreneurs. But it is also one of the greatest weaknesses in many places.

Companies that do not anticipate the conditions of the VUCA world are on a direct path to losing their competitiveness.

Those who lead a company essentially must do two things. They must ensure that they achieve the greatest possible demand with innovative products, and they must ensure that their company can handle the greatest possible demand with confidence.

Being a good leader does not automatically mean being a good entrepreneur, because as such you also must ensure constant change and successful transformation.

Every entrepreneur is free to decide how to structure their company, how to embed and lead the people in it, and how to organise the implementation of tasks. Smart entrepreneurs will try to understand the different options, methods and approaches available before implementing, modifying or rejecting them.

Excellence in corporate management is not defined by proficiency in individual disciplines, methods or tools. Rather, it is about the ability to deploy, empower and develop the right people while also being able to assess their recommendations and identify critical situations.

The only thing you lose in taking risk is fear.

When your leadership fails, the followers are the ones to blame or perhaps, there is poor leadership on the side of the leading figure.

It would be so foolish of you to form a team that has many people who doubt, rather than having true believers in your cause.