Entrepreneur Quotes - Page 2

Creatives Creed: Destruction is creation. Creation is destruction.

Even though you read much Zen literature, you must read each sentence with a fresh mind. You should not say, “I know what Zen is,” or “I have attained enlightenment.” This is also the real secret of the arts: always be a beginner.”-“When you are sitting in the middle of your own problem, which is more real to you: your problem or you yourself? The awareness that you are here, right now, is the ultimate fact. ”-“Knowing that your life is short, to enjoy it day after day, moment after moment, is the life of “form is form and emptiness is emptiness.”-“You may feel as if you are doing something special, but actually it is only the expression of your true nature; it is the activity which appeases your inmost desire. But as long as you think you are practicing zazen for the sake of something, that is not true practice.”-“The most important thing is to forget all gaining ideas, all dualistic ideas. In other words, just practice zazen in a certain posture.

Entrepreneur, your last 20 tweets has to be about your brain, brand and business.

Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.

If you don’t learn to control your mind, your mind will control you.

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

A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a negative state.

Ideas are meaningless without a masterful execution.

Business success requires business preparation. You don't have to be a master tactician, but you do need to have a plan in place. This plan will act as a foundation for everything you want to achieve.

I had worked for others for many years and didn't like the idea of someone else holding my future in their hands; it was time to do something on my own.- Jerri Graham, Nothin' But Granola

Now there are some, and I don't just mean Communists like you, but thinking men of all political parties, who think that not many of these gods actually exist. Some believe that none of them exist. There's just us and an ocean of darkness around us. I'm no philosopher or poet, how would I know the truth? It's true that all these gods seem to do awfully little work - much like our politicians - and yet keep winning reelection to their golden thrones in heaven, year after year. That's not to say I don't respect them, Mr. Premier! Don't you ever let that blasphemous idea into your yellow skull. My country is the kind where it pays to play it both ways: the Indian entrepreneur has to be straight and crooked, mocking and believing, sly and sincere, at the same time.

All I want to be is a wandering entrepreneur touching billions of lives. I am going to be the monk who never bought a Ferrari.

You can't judge a man by the way he reacts when things go right, but by the way he reacts when things go wrong.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

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

Billions of dollars worth of research knowledge lie dormant at American universities waiting for the right disruptor to come along and create a business.

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.

The most successful people in the world today are entrepreneurs

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

Is it weird that when I see a cool t shirt or pick up a toothbrush or see a new car I don't think about the product itself? I think about the thousands of people and dollars to make it.I think about how the retailer that took the risk to buy and resell it. Then I work backwards to the store costs, the distributer who got it there, the shipping company that brought it over from China, the factory workers that made it, the people that sourced the materials and the people that harvested the raw materials, and on and on...The global economy is amazing. Your $20 t-shirt is a freaking miracle.

You can get into any business by leveraging joint ventures.

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

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

Money is always eager and ready to work for anyone who is ready to employ it.

Average is common. Excellence is rare.

And our nation, though it has no drinking water, electricity, sewage system, public transportation, sense of hygiene, discipline, courtesy, or punctuality, does have entrepreneurs.

When you fail, embrace it. Bleed. Get hurt. Lose your religion. That's the only way you will do amazing things.

Doubt manifests itself in indecision.

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

You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box.

Your business values can make you soar above the competition.

If you want an incredibly passionate, happy, ALIVE business…don’t overcomplicate things. Once all is said and done, the foundational elements of a successful business are very simple: respect, service, value and sales. Comparatively, everything else is froth.

We all have a little entrepreneur inside of us. Wanting to leverage it is what gives us an entrepreneurial spirit and an entrepreneurial mind. Actually doing it makes one an entrepreneur.

But while my inner voice was clearly telling me I was at my core an entrepreneur, it's inconvenient to decide at twenty-three that you can't really work for other people.

Disruption isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you respond to what happens to you.

Disruptive innovation is entrepreneurs changing their industry with unique creativity.

Lesson learned - in doing business, do not COMPETE but be COMPETITIVE.

Wealth isn't about money. It's about options...and you always have options. Choose wisely. Live wealthy.

When you work on something that only has the capacity to make you 5 dollars, it does not matter how much harder you work – the most you will make is 5 dollars.

Entrepreneur, take a bite out of Apple's innovation so in turn you can bear fruits of creativity.

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't.

Failure is not an option. Keep going!

Everyone loves the idea of "disruption" in business, but no one likes it when it happens to them.

Ideas become reality. once you hit that reality, you get a new idea. it's a virtuous upward spiral. However, the majority are satisfied living within the idea of the reality instead of the reality of the idea.

There are those dreamers who make excuses for why they aren't passionate about or creating anything to match their desires and then there's those dreamers who stay up late just to finish a goal that will get them up the next set of stairs. We all have dreams but not everyone makes it a reality.