If You Don’t Define Yourself And Proactively Maintain Your Identity, Someone Else Will Do It For You. The Idea That You Can Be Invisible Is A Myth.
- BrandYourself.com, Patrick Ambron
So Often People Are Working Hard At The Wrong Thing. Working On The Right Thing Is Probably More Important Than Working Hard.
- Caterina Fake, Flickr co-founder
Don’t Take Too Much Advice. It’s Just That Most People Who Have A Lot Of Advice To Give�There Are A Few People Who Are Exceptions, And They Have A Lot Of Data In Front Of Them�Most People Generalize Whatever They Did And Say That’s The Strategy That Made It Work.
- Ben Silbermann, creater of Pinterest
If You’ve Got An Idea, Start Today. There’s No Better Time Than Now To Get Going. That Doesn’t Mean Quit Your Job And Jump Into Your Idea 100% From Day One, But There’s Always Small Progress That Can Be Made To Start The Movement.
- creater of Instagram, Kevin Systrom
Don’t Limit Yourself. Many People Limit Themselves To What They Think They Can Do. You Can Go As Far As Your Mind Lets You. What You Believe, Remember, You Can Achieve.
- Mary Kay Ash, Mary Kay Cosmetics founder
Whether You Think That You Can, Or That You Can’t, You Are Usually Right
- founder of Ford, Henry Ford
Markets Come And Go. Good Businesses Don’t.
- co-founder of Union Square Venture, Fred Wilson
The Very First Company I Started Failed With A Great Bang. The Second One Failed A Little Bit Less, But Still Failed. The Third One, You Know, Proper Failed, But It Was Kind Of Okay. I Recovered Quickly. Number Four Almost Didn’t Fail. It Still Didn’t Really Feel Great, But It Did Okay. Number Five Was Paypal.
- former CTO of PayPal, Max Levchin
Every Time You State What You Want Or Believe, You’re The First To Hear It. It’s A Message To Both You And Others About What You Think Is Possible. Don’t Put A Ceiling On Yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey, TV host and author
Running A Start-Up Is Like Eating Glass. You Just Start To Like The Taste Of Your Own Blood.
- creater of Napster, Sean Parker
Everyone Should Pull Their Finger Out And Start A Business And To Believe In Themselves. There Is Nothing Else To It. Anyone Can Make A �100M. But Most People Don’t Go Out And Try. They Just Stand In The Pub And Complain.
- author and TV personality, Duncan Bannatyne, entrepreneur
An Entrepreneur Is Someone Who Jumps Off A Cliff And Builds A Plane On The Way Down.
- co-founder of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman
Watch, Listen, And Learn. You Can’t Know It All Yourself. Anyone Who Thinks They Do Is Destined For Mediocrity.
- and the Trump Atlantic City Associates, chairman of The Trump Organization, Donald Trump, LLC, the Trump Plaza Associates
I Don’t Have Big Ideas. I Sometimes Have Small Ideas, Which Seem To Work Out
- Matt Mullenweg, WordPress founder
One Of The Huge Mistakes People Make Is That They Try To Force An Interest On Themselves. You Don’t Choose Your Passions; Your Passions Choose You.
- Chairman and CEO of Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos
Embrace What You Don’t Know, Especially In The Beginning, Because What You Don’t Know Can Become Your Greatest Asset. It Ensures That You Will Absolutely Be Doing Things Different From Everybody Else.
- Sara Blakely, SPANX founder
You May Not Realize It When It Happens, But A Kick In The Teeth May Be The Best Thing In The World For You.
- founder of Disney, Walt Disney
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