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17 Entrepreneur Success Quotes

March 28, 2016 by 123outsource
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Here are some success quotes for entrepreneurs that did very well on our Twitter platform!

(1) “If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.” — Mario Andretti

(2) “It is better to travel well than to arrive.” — Buddha

(3) “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” — Michael Jordan

(4) “Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.” –Robert Kiyosaki

(5) “I’m an #entrepreneur. ‘Ambitious’ is my middle name.” — Kim Kardashian

(6) “All lasting #business is built on #friendship.” — Alfred Montapert

(7) “What I’ve learned in these 11 years is you just got to stay focused & believe in yourself & trust your own ability & judgment.” — Mark Cuban

(8) “I’ve always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the #team.” — Lee Iacocca

(9) “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.” — Steve Jobs

(10) “Go to heaven for the climate, hell for the company.” — Mark Twain

(11) “Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the #value of what the #entrepreneur contributes to production.” — Joseph A. Schumpeter

(12) “The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream” — Robert Kiyosaki

(13) “The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.” — Robert Kiyosaki

(14) “The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an #entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.” — Robert Kiyosaki

(15) “It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.” — Henry Ford

(16) “In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.” — J. Paul Getty

(17) “A #goal is a #dream with a deadline.” — Napoleon Hill

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Do you see yourself as an Entrepreneur, or CEO?

May 15, 2015 by 123outsource
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I was talking to my friend the other day. Some of the most meaningful conversations I have ever had happen when I just drop by to someone’s office, or just feel the urge to talk with someone who I haven’t talked to for a long time. Well, my friend told me that I was a CEO of a technology company — like Steve Jobs or Bill Gates. I don’t feel that way about myself. I feel that I am nowhere as smart as either of those two guys. Additionally, I only have a programmer and a few assistants. I don’t manager dozens, hundreds or thousands of workers. When you are in that league it is a different ballgame.

So, basically, I see myself as an entrepreneur who has moved up the ladder to the point where he has a few people working for him. I am not in a huge hurry to grow because I like stable growth based on stable clients, stable markets, and stable skills. But, maybe I am a CEO in a small scale type of a way. Or perhaps I should think of myself as one. The main real difference between me and a CEO is that they can snap their fingers and have labor resources on a particular task. I can’t do that. I have to find people myself, test them out, etc. I can’t do my tasks if I am busy hiring others. So, I am at a difficult stage in business where growth actually does hurt.

But, maybe I should gradually shift my consciousness to CEO consciousness, or start thinking more like one today. If I am going to grow, I need to start thinking like someone who is already bigger than I am. It is common sense and the law of the cyberverse. So, how can I be more like a real CEO? Well, for starts, I can put down my subscription to Entrepreneur, and start reading CEO. Next, I can find intelligent ways to delegate a higher portion of my tasks, even if it is little by little And last, I can have a weekly meeting with myself to take notes on business decisions and the conditions of the week. Top level people have reports, and keep track of their business more in writing, while I keep it mostly in my head. I guess it’s all in my head!

Maybe this is the type of question to ask my cat.

ME: Mrs. Meao, do you see me as being more of an entrepreneur or a CEO?
CAT: (sniff sniff sniff) Meao!!! (with puzzled expression on her furry face)

Putting reason aside, the topic of today’s blog entry is mind expanding. Your entire existance can be changed by contemplating this topic. Anyway, I gotta go meditate. The universe is calling me!

How can corporations encourage “garage entrepreneurship” in their workers?

June 14, 2014 by 123outsource
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It is always inspiring to read about how Steve Jobs succeeded, and how a guy working in his garage became a billionaire through sheer passion, perseverance, and brain power. He made it there through “garage thinking.” Innovating on a shoe string in a garage! But, big corporations often lack innovative capabilities. Their workers are too engrained in the cubicle mentality. If you work in a cubicle, pretty soon your brain will become a cubicle if you ask me. To succeed you need tremendous drive, but you also need the independence and environment to succeed.

Using artificial conditions to foster entrepreneurship
Real start-up entrepreneurs use their garage often because that is the only place they can use. But, imagine what would happen if you put your workers in entrepreneur type positions and created a virtual garage in a huge warehouse next to your office? Or, what if you asked them to work at home in their own garage? In real life, garage type entrepreneurs start organically. I don’t think they can be artificially produced under the right circumstances. There is something innate about a good entrepreneur. Even if everyone around them tells them that it is bad to be an entrepreneur, they will want to do it anyway! I think that creating a warehouse filled with garages is a silly idea, but makes for a great blog article!

A plethora of garages
Imagine that these faux-entrepeneurs were asked to come to work unshaven wearing torn t-shirts or tank tops, whatever successful entrepreneurs wore when they started out. Let’s put a little more pressure on these folks. Real entrepreneurs will go broke and lose everything if they fail. They are under real pressure, and have real drive to make sure their invention doesn’t fail. Let’s sign a contract with these workers that if their invention sells, they get a percentage, but if they fail, they get fired and have to pay the company $5000. That contract will separate the men from the boys. No more excuses. This is the real deal. You can duplicate a dusty garage, but can you duplicate the pressure that a real entrepreneur goes through? The answer is — to a point. I’m sure that you cannot duplicate an entrepreneur’s drive to succeed, but what if someone with a quarter of that drive were put under the right combinations of circumstances — could that guy make it as an entrepreneur? It is quite possible.

Internal drives fluctuate
We all know that to become an entrepreneur you need tremendous drive and internal discipline. I remember stating businesses as a child. I was completely incompetent, yet I always worked really hard and managed to turn a profit. I have that innate entrepreneurial spirit that others lack. But, if someone with 25% of the necessary drive were thrown into a situation where they would be subjected to the same market pressures of an entrepreneur, I feel their drive would fluctuate in the up direction in many cases.

Summary
A warehouse filled with faux garages is a wonderful concept to think about and write about. I would love to see this concept documented on CNN one day and see it breed some real entrepreneurs that will change the world like Steve Jobs!