Quotes by Entrepreneurs - Page 12

Diamonds are a girl's best friend until love introduces her to her soulmate.
Matshona Dhliwayo
So if you see no one like you, no one who agrees, don't worry. There are actually hundreds of people like you, and they're waiting for a leader. That person is you.
Julien Smith
I want to live my life to its fullest potential. I want to embrace my own purpose, however large or small it may be. I want to find my own Nehru moments and take positive steps toward becoming the person I am meant to be. The journey will undoubtedly be a winding one, filled with surprises and setbacks as well as gifts. But I'm ready to embrace it fully, wherever it may take me.
Mallika Chopra
It is possible to become world-class, enter the top 5% of performers in the world, in almost any subject within 6-12 months, or even 6-12 weeks.
Timothy Ferriss
Stumbling up a hill strengthens you more than sprinting down a mountain.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A bear does not change its nature because it shed its fur.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A river cannot boast to a sea.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You need editors, not brand managers,who will push the envelope to make [a brand media property] go forward.
Seth Godin
The betterment of a community directly depends on the betterment of lives in that Community.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Being innovative is to allow yourself to expose your mind to something great that has potential to change lives and the world positively and you take action on it.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
You don't win battles you walk away from.
Matshona Dhliwayo
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 won 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.
Jessica Livingston
If God is humanity connected, then the internet is God incarnate; a manifestation of our connection, a rudimentary form of hyperconnected humanity.
Jim Gilliam
Knowledge is power. The moment the masses acquire this power, control fades. And when control fades, chaos erupts.
Felix O. Hartmann
Sometimes in life, it has to be enough to be proud of yourself, even if no one else notices.
Duncan Bannatyne
A little wisdom can lead to great understanding.A little curiosity can lead to great discoveries.A little talent can lead to great achievements.A little love can lead to great virtue.A little faith can lead to great miracles.A little opportunity can lead to great success.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Be like stars; when darkness tries to stop you from shining, shine all the more.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Danielle had never started a business. But if others can do it, so can I.
Jan Moran
Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you’ll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn’t make you better.
Seth Godin
The greatest lesson a tree can give you is to stand tall and proud, no matter how strong life’s winds blow against you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Cold passion’ is calm, considered and long lasting. Both the brain and the heart are working together. Emotions have been takenout of decision-making. And decisions are given time, looked at from all angles. Cold passion is much more effective at getting results.
David Hieatt
Only when your love of roses is greater than your fear of thorns can you grow a beautiful garden.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Even a whale is concealed by darkness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love is God's shadow as He strolls through the universe.
Matshona Dhliwayo
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.
Rashmi Bansal
If a lion turned every time small dogs barked at it, it would be the laughing stock of the jungle.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The relentless act of invention and innovation and initiative is the best marketing asset.
Seth Godin
It's like when you're on hold and a recorded voice comes on telling you how much the company values you as a customer. Really? Then maybe you should hire some more support people so I don't have to wait thirty minutes to get help.
Jason Fried
Dream what others do not.Imagine what others have not.Do what others will not.Achieve what others could not.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A wolf raised in a jungle is fiercer than a lion reared in a circus.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You are only greater than what you overcome.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Money can't buy love, except on Valentine’s Day.
Matshona Dhliwayo
In the West, people learn through the Socratic tradition. The education system was influenced by Western philosophy and is based on constantly questioning the knowledge that’s handed to you and arriving at the truth through that process of questioning. The Indian system took off from the Guru-Shishyha tradition in which your virtue as a student lay in taking tradition or parampara as it is given to you and passing it on to the next generation in the exact same way.
Sharanya Haridas
A small idea with wings will take you higher than a big one with legs.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Be like a rose; no matter how many thorns you encounter in life, bloom.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It's one thing if your hobby is to put ships inside a bottle, but a deer in the headlights!... That's a real talent
Josh Stern
Failure is the school of greatness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Danger is opportunity’s seer.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Live for your dreams, not your memories.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Every penny NOT spent on investing in yourself (after basic needs of course) may be a wasted future opportunity from missing learns and connects.
Richie Norton
A good listener is not only popular everywhere but after a while he knows something.
Wilson Mizner
This is it, so please don't question it. I love you, I need you, and you mean everything to me. So, will you have me? Please put your all your eggs in one basket because I am doing the same. I don't want a life without you in it so please don't let me have one.
Hope Alcocer
You are my reality, fantasy, daydream, fairytale, music, more than the princess in Cinderella; you are much more than a traditional myth.
Delano Johnson
Running away from someone you love is a race you will never win.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Helping yourself is common sense, helping others is virtue, helping yourself and others is enlightenment.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Reach for the stars, not your fears.
Matshona Dhliwayo
We talk too much about love,but spend little time practising it.We debate too much about love,but spend little time utilizing it.We sermonize too much about love,but spend little time performing it.We write too much about love,but spend little time exercising it.We read too much about love,but spend little time implementing it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A beautiful rose with an ugly soul wilts quickly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
By standing alone,you prove your courage.By standing with others,you prove your love.By standing with truth,you prove your virtue.By standing with God,you prove your faith.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your greatest friendships are those that survive the greatest storms.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Steve did not have a death wish. He had the exact opposite. His appetite for life was so strong, it outweighed all fear. So what if his choices shortened his life? His choices filled his life, and enriched the lives of those around him.
Richard Branson
One who has been stung by a spider should not go out and kill bees.
Matshona Dhliwayo
She felt whatever emotions she felt, but feeling was never a useful substitute for doing, and she never let the former get in the way of the latter. If anything, she used her emotions to motivate her and help her concentrate. The emphasis for her was always on doing what needed to be done.
Will Schwalbe
It's war that makes generals
Seth Godin
Social Media= Business. Period.
Gary Vaynerchuk
When life’s great storms come, the weak sink, the cowardly jump ship, the strong drop an anchor, the mighty adjust their sails, and the great sail on to their destiny.
Matshona Dhliwayo
We don’t actually know what a positive or negative experience is. Some of the most difficult and stressful moments of our lives also end up being the most formative and motivating. Some of the best and most gratifying experiences of our lives are also the most distracting and demotivating. Don’t trust your conception of positive/negative experiences. All that we know for certain is what hurts in the moment and what doesn’t. And that’s not worth much.
Mark Manson
True love is like diamonds; scarce, and priceless.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The key to sticking with any diet is learning how to control hunger and manage cravings.
Josh Bezoni
I start every morning with a Rosicrucian ritual, meditation and exercise. I can't separate myself from this habit of connecting myself to the other realm every day, not anymore, because I'm actually more there than here. I always was, but now I know how to maintain this balance, even in solitude.
Robin Sacredfire