Quotes by Entrepreneurs - Page 51

The most important thing you can do is to get into an iteration cycle where you can measure the impact of your work, have a hypothesis about how making changes will affect those variables, and ship changes regularly. It doesn't even matter that much what the content is - it's the iteration of hypothesis, changes, and measurement that will make you better at a faster rate than anything else we have seen.
Gabe Newell
We all come into the world rocks, but the enlightened leave it diamonds.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Raise your thoughts. Ennoble your desires. Better your actions. Elevate your life.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Everything around you that you call life was made up by people, and you can change it.
Steve Jobs
Dreaming isn't bad for you but not doing anything to craft your dream is.
Mohith Agadi
I is who I is.
Tom Peterson
Fear makes a cub sound like a lion.Faith makes a lion sound like a cub.
Matshona Dhliwayo
In our dreams, we find the dreams of others, and in other’s dreams we find ourselves. No will is separated from others and no dream is in itself isolated from the will of God.
Robin Sacredfire
Not all of us were meant to teach,but all of us were meant to learn.Not all of us were meant to lead,but all of us were meant to serve.Not all of us were meant to be rich,but all of us were meant to be charitable.Not all of us were meant to be famous,but all of us were meant to be upright.Not all of us were meant to be mighty,but all of us were meant to persevere.Not all of us were meant to be extraordinary,but all of us were meant to prevail.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Scars are your greatest medals in life.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The real badge of honour at work is not to work longer than anyone else, but to work smarter than anyone else.
David Hieatt
Thoughts are powerful; before you were born, you were one.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A general is powerless without an army.An army is directionless without a general.To win battles a general and an army need each other.
Matshona Dhliwayo
No matter where you're from or what you've done, you're never stuck in a particular circumstance, relationship, or cycle unless you say you are.
Russell Simmons
Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Bill Gates
Religious people fear hell -- Spiritual people have walked thru it.
Frank Warren
Just because everyone is behaving like a clown, it doesn’t mean you have to join the circus.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Have the mind of a swam, the heart of a lion, the tongue of a serpent, the flair of a swam, and the soul of a dove.
Matshona Dhliwayo
This world that we live in would be perfect if there were less prejudice and people who think they are better than others.
Werley Nortreus
Lust promises you the world, and disappoints. Love promises you the universe, and delivers.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Don’t mourn over the past; it has no pity for you. Don’t cry over the present; it has no sympathy for you; and don’t weep over the future, it has no mercy on you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The key to unlock your entrepreneurial spirit is your imagination.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
They'll take everything, even your tears.
George Foreman
The opinion of success matters more than the opinions of your critics.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A friend’s 14-year-old niece was asked by her teacher what she wanted to be when she finished school. The teacher asked her to think hard about it and then get back to him with an answer. She didn’t know what to say to her teacher. A friend, on hearing the girl’s predicament, said: ‘Tell your teacher that, perhaps, the thing you want to be when you leave school hasn’t been invented yet.
Ian Sanders
A tree fears an axe even though its handle is made from it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Fear is an assassin; if you let it in your life, it will kill your dreams.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If a ship is strong, the ocean's tides do not trouble it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Frequent friction when love becomes political.
Delano Johnson
You don't scale a mountain with your mouth, but with your feet.
Matshona Dhliwayo
An acorn is an oak tree inside out.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The greatest gift you can open is your arms to someone in need.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you are playing the rigged game of investing, the house always wins.
Robert Rolih
It’s far too rarely stated that the technology industry is not in the business of making people productive. It is only in the business of selling more technology.
Mark Hurst
Steve Jobs gave a small private presentation about the iTunes Music Store to some independent record label people. My favorite line of the day was when people kept raising their hand saying, "Does it do [x]?", "Do you plan to add [y]?". Finally Jobs said, "Wait wait — put your hands down. Listen: I know you have a thousand ideas for all the cool features iTunes could have. So do we. But we don't want a thousand features. That would be ugly. Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.
Derek Sivers
The brave with all of their weaknesses are better than the cowardly with all of their strengths.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The most important brands in the world make you feel something. They do that because they have something they want to change. And as customers, we want to be part of that change. These companies have a reason to exist over and above just to make a profit: They have a purpose. Yes, we admire the product they make. But the thing we love the most about them is the change they are making.
David Hieatt
An elephant does not need to pick a fight to let the whole jungle know of its strength.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Destiny is a right destination for every nation with a mission of destiny.
Oscar AULIQ-ICE Jr
Ask the person who found you about what kind of people they were looking for before meeting you, as they may not know that they have found one of them already.
Robin Sacredfire
When it comes to exacting revenge, it gets harder and harder to top yourself each successive time
Josh Stern
Inbetween yesterday's regret and tomorrow's dream is today's opportunity. Seize the chance!
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
You cannot marry your past without divorcing your future.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A calm ocean is safer than a raging river.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Never send a Man in to do a Donkey's job
Josh Stern
Constraint inspires creativity
Biz Stone
A scholar’s pen is more valuable than a warrior’s sword.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love only knocks on your heart’s door when certain it has the right address.
Matshona Dhliwayo
True faith is when you see the harvest before you plant the seed.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The parents of politics are lack of control and seeking to control. The parents of leadership are influence and trust.
Richie Norton
You gotta know that People will say a million negative things about you before they mention 1 good thing, don't be surprise if they never said that 1 good thing about you.
Werley Nortreus
Chemistry is great, but eventually your relationship moves out of the laboratory.
Tim Fargo
There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen.
Jay Samit
You cannot truly know pleasure without pain.You cannot truly know strength without weakness.You cannot truly know joy without sorrow.You cannot truly know hope without despair.
Matshona Dhliwayo
In Gilead, the narrator's friend's son describes himself not as an atheist but in "state of categorical unbelief." He says, "I don't even believe God doesn't exist, if you see what I mean." I pointed this passage out to Mom and said it closely matched my own views--I just didn't think about religion.
Will Schwalbe
It is the worst people in your life that teach you the best lessons.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You can write and visualize goals all you want, but if you do not take action, your goals will never become a reality. To obtain a goal you have never before achieved will require tasks you have never before done.
Cameron C. Taylor
The magic of you is in your capacity to shape change.
Julian Pencilliah
The secret to success is no secret. Be honest in your words, be trustworthy and share value. Most people won't tell the difference, but those that do are your readers.
Robin Sacredfire
CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.
Jay Samit