Entrepreneurial Quotes

An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

Data has no ego and makes an excellent co-pilot.

Rebels revel in rewriting reality's restrictions.

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

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

Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.

Let them ask who you are but do not let others dictate who you should be.

Entrepreneur, your distinction can be found on Twitter, so, is your thought leadership impressing or depressing?

Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.

Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey.

I have noticed over the past three years that most African Christians depend on their pastor or preachers for directions in life than their lecturers, politicians and nurses. That tells why most people refuse certain medical priorities with regards to their pastor's messages. I think if every pastor should have entrepreneurial knowledge coupled with spiritual integrity, Africa will shake!

One of the best ways to attract capital is to outperform the competition.

You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at.

The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.

A business person is all about solving problems.

The customer is always right...even when they're wrong.

The best way to determine the Values you will enforce in your business is to clarify your personal values.

All Disruption starts with introspection.

Speed to fail should be every entrepreneur's motto. When you finally find the one idea that can't be killed, go with it.

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

We can never achieve and succeed without first making excellence second nature.

No one who ever led a nation got there by following the path of another.

You can truly have it all, just not all at the same time.

Business is still more often about whom you know, not what you know.

Entrepreneur, if your distinction isn't angering the mediocre, it's actually mediocre.

Success in life is not for those who run fast, but for those who keep running and always on the move.

Transforming the complex to the simple is pure genius.

Make something people want and sell that, or be someone people need and sell you.

The business world is littered with the fossils of companies that failed to evolve. Disrupt or be disrupted. There is no middle ground.

A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.

Jean-Baptiste Say may have coined the term 'entrepreneur' but he totally missed the opportunity to put it on a t-shirt and sell it.

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic.

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.

Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.

Just because you have baggage doesn't mean you have to lug it around.

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.

You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.

Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

Insight and drive are all the skills you need. Everything else can be hired.

Entrepreneurship is not a career choice, its a way of life!

The most important thing to leverage is people. Their talents and connections will take you to great heights.

While others were dreaming about it - I was getting it done.

Even during a mid-life crisis do not deviate from your goal. History remembers only those who succeed.

Most startups eventually pivot to adjust to what the market is telling them.

Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

The Shoes Should fit! you can't build a business that is not yours.

A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.

Nothing stops the great from being greater and so was with Tulga Demir, born in Germany, who started his entrepreneurial journey at the young age of 17 in the USA.

Learning to embrace and savor rejection is one of the best things that entrepreneurs can do. Launching a startup is the time to find your ever-optimistic inner child again.

Entrepreneur, let your global & generational vision start locally, now.

Your Core Values are the "glue" that holds your business together.

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

If you can't connect the Dots, Find the right dots first.

Money Can make things better but a perfect relationship makes your life complete.

If life, you get what you believe you deserve.

If you want to glide toward money, you have to make sure your message is clear as a bell, and you need to ensure that you have a unified team capable of communicating it.

Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.