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Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.
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Bernard Branson
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When you work on something that only has the capacity to make you 5 dollars, it does not matter how much harder you work β the most you will make is 5 dollars.
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Idowu Koyenikan (Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability)
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With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die.
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Criss Jami (Venus in Arms)
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Success in life is not for those who run fast, but for those who keep running and always on the move.
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Bangambiki Habyarimana (Pearls Of Eternity)
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Simplicity is complex. It's never simple to keep things simple. Simple solutions require the most advanced thinking.
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Richie Norton
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I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sole motive then I believe you are better off not doing it. A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
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Richard Branson (Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way)
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Always make your future bigger than your past.
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Dan Sullivan (The Quotable Dan Sullivan)
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You don't feel like your best self when you fall apart, but you have to fall apart to become your best self.
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Richie Norton
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I honor you for every time
this year you:
got back up
vibrated higher
shined your light
and loved and elevated
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Lalah Delia
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Visionary decision-making happens at the intersection of intuition and logic.
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Paul O'Brien (Great Decisions, Perfect Timing: Cultivating Intuitive Intelligence)
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Entrepreneurship is a commitment if you canβt commit you canβt stay
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odeta rose
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An entrepreneur is a man who knows he can fail, but he does not accept to fail before he actually fails, and when he fails he learns from his errors and moves on.
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Bangambiki Habyarimana (Pearls Of Eternity)
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Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey.
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Jay Samit (Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation)
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Fail soon so that you can succeed sooner.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.
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Jay Samit (Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation)
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Today it is cheaper to start a business than tomorrow.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Be creative while inventing ideas, but be disciplined while implementing them.
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Amit Kalantri
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Just because you have baggage doesn't mean you have to lug it around.
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Richie Norton
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No matter what the industry you choose to ultimately invest all your time and energy in, be sure you're the owner, founder, and CEO. Remember, if you don't own it, you can't control it nor can you depend on it.
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Brandi L. Bates (Moonshine For The Soul: A Path to Strength, Wisdom, Growth, Health & Happiness)
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Remember, NO ONE has the right to control your emotions, thoughts, and actions, unless you let them.
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Kevin J. Donaldson (10 Secrets of the New Rich: Your Ultimate Motivational Guide to Achieving Personal Transformation, Mastering Entrepreneurship, and Joining the World's New Breed of Millionaires)
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The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.
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Jay Samit (Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation)
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Never fear starting. Fear never starting.
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Ryan Lilly
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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.
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Rasheed Ogunlaru
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Nature is a constant reminder of the beauty of consistence, the utility of patience and persistence, the vanity of arrogance, and the necessity of impermanence.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.
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Jay Samit
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Disruptors don't have to discover something new; they just have to discover a practical use for new discoveries.
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Jay Samit (Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation)
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The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful ones know that the most unprofitable thing ever manufactured is an excuse.
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Jay Samit (Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation)
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You are too silly to fear the shame of being silly while trying.
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Kangoma Kindembo
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Entrepreneurs see what others can't, do what others won't, and accomplish what others dream.
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Ryan Lilly
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Entrepreneurship has a trailblazing aura. It can change the way of our livings. Entrepreneurs are just like the national assets to be cultivated. They are motivated and remunerated to the greatest possible extent.
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Aman Mehndiratta (Aman Mehndiratta)
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Entrepreneurs see the "no diving" sign and back-up to get a running start.
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Ryan Lilly
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You donβt get what you wish for; you get what you work for.
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Daniel Milstein (Rule #1 Don't Be #2)
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At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic.
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Jay Samit
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Sometimes success is the source of your happiness, but sometimes happiness can be the source of your success.
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Richie Norton
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Perfectionism is a disease. Procrastination is a disease. ACTION is the cure.
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Richie Norton
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Regret nothing. Everything broken can be remade. And everything remade can once again be broken
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Kulpreet Yadav (The Girl Who Loved a Pirate (Andy Karan, #2))
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When you were making excuses someone else was making enterprise.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.
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Jay Samit (Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation)
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Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.
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Jay Samit
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All businesses -- no matter if they make dog food or software -- don't sell products, they sell solutions.
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Jay Samit (Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation)
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When you stay in your comfort zone, you are not learning.
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Ben Tolosa (Masterplan Your Success: Deadline Your Dreams)
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Immerse yourself in the world or the industry that you wish to master.
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Robert Greene (The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations from the author of the bestselling The 48 Laws of Power)
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You cannot begin, until you begin.
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Tony Cleaver (A Chain of Flames)
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You may not have connections, or an education, or wealth, but with enough passion and sweat, you can make anything happen.
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Gary Vaynerchuk (Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion)
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The way to be irreplaceable is to become a social innovator. Start projects that motivate you to save the world and simultaneously make you money (and create mindshare) for your company. Social innovation makes magic happen.
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Richie Norton (RΓ©sumΓ©s Are Dead and What to Do About It)
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Stupid is the New Smart.
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Richie Norton (The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret)
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We can't all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the pie.
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Ini-Amah Lambert
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Don't simply dream, create. Don't simply create, ship. Don't simply ship, dream.
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Ryan Lilly
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A setback often moves us to a road that is even worse, but leads to an even better destination.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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When you think of quitting, remember why you started!
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John Di Lemme
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Insight and drive are all the skills you need. Everything else can be hired.
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Jay Samit (Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation)
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You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.
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Jay Samit (Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation)
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No one who ever led a nation got there by following the path of another.
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Jay Samit (Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation)
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Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.
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Jay Samit (Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation)
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Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering opportunity.
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Jay Samit (Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation)
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It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.
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Jay Samit (Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation)
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Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure
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Jay Samit
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Speed to fail should be every entrepreneur's motto. When you finally find the one idea that can't be killed, go with it.
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Jay Samit
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The most important tool you have on a resume is language.
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Jay Samit
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To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.
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Jay Samit (Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation)
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A complaint is a unique opportunity to strengthen the relationship with the client.
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Kevin Kelly (DO! The Pursuit of Xceptional Execution)
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It's called entrepreneurSHIP, not entrepreneurSTAY. Don't wait. Just ship.
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Richie Norton
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The true ENTREPRENEUR is a risk taker, not an excuse maker.
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VDEXTERS
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It is foolish to give up on yourself. And doubly so to do that before everyone has given up on you.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Business is simply a series of problems temporarily impeding a desired outcome.
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Devin Schumacher
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Never allow your current limitations to influence your future potential.
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Devin Schumacher
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Focus on the behaviors, and the results will follow.
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Devin Schumacher
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I built success in business when I stopped focusing on me and started focusing on helping others.
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Sharon Pearson (Disruptive Leadership: Four Simple Steps to Creating the Winning Team)
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Some of the things you think are impossible to do can be done even by you.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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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.
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Jeffrey Shaw (The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success)
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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.
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Jeffrey Shaw (The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success)
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The self-employed need business strategies that are relationship-based, not transactional, authentic to who you are, and right-sized for small business.
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Jeffrey Shaw (The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success)
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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.
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Jeffrey Shaw (The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success)
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Time doesnβt change things. Itβs how we use our time that makes the difference.
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Richie Norton
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If you're not a smart worker, it's about how hard you work double the amount from the heart; if you're not a hard worker, it's about how smart you work but times two from the brain.
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Criss Jami (Healology)
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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 weβre all over the place.
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Jeffrey Shaw (The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success)
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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 wonβt.
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Jeffrey Shaw (The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success)
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No one is indispensable; but a dependable person is never expendable.
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Kayambila Mpulamasaka
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An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Everyone has bad habits. It is your good habits that build you.
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Arian Adeli Koodehi
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Starting a business with brother either ends business or ends brotherhood.
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Amit Kalantri
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Selling is a sacred trust between buyer and seller.
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Richie Norton
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The naysayer has a place in your life, but if that is someone that you are considering to be your friend, do they truly add value in your life?
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Dee-Williams
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Commitment shows up before results do!
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John Di Lemme
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A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.
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Jay Samit (Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation)
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Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.
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Jay Samit (Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation)
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A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.
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Jay Samit
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There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.
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Jay Samit (Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation)
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Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.
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Jay Samit (Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation)
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A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a negative state.
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Jay Samit (Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation)
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A dream with a deadline is a goal.
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Jay Samit
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Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.
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Jay Samit (Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation)
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A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.
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Jay Samit (Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation)
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You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at.
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Jay Samit (Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation)
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An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.
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Jay Samit (Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation)
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Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.
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Jay Samit (Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation)
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Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast.
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Jay Samit (Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation)
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Data may disappoint, but it never lies.
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Jay Samit (Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation)
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The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better.
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Jay Samit (Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation)
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great. This is a good description of Rovio, which was around for six years and underwent layoffs before the βinstantβ 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. Youβll have the chance to work on something you own and care about from day to day. Youβll 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, thereβs still a great chance that your new business will not succeed. Over 50 percent of companies fail within their first three years.2 Thereβs a quote I like from an unknown source: βEntrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people wonβt, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people canβt.
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Andrew Yang (Smart People Should Build Things: How to Restore Our Culture of Achievement, Build a Path for Entrepreneurs, and Create New Jobs in America)