Last one on the range. Thanks to www.myerscough.ac.uk for use of the photo.
Being an Entrepreneur means being your own boss, creating freedom, and answering only to the guy in the mirror. It’s a tough road and that is why only a small percentage of us actually make it. We all go through the hills of excitement and valleys of despair on the voyage of making our dreams come true. As we have learned through golf, it is important to keep our emotions in check. Good luck to all of you on making your dreams a reality. Here are a few of my favourite quotes to keep you moving forward.
Outward Nine
1. ”Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life-like most people won’t, so that you can spend the rest of your life-like most people can’t.” – Unknown student (From The Cheap Revolution)
2. ”The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning – to create a product or service to make the world a better place.” - Guy Kawasaki
3. ”Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.” - Mahatma Gandhi
4. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” - Vidal Sassoon
5. ”Some people dream of great accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them.” – Anonymous
6. ”Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you’re generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make.” - Donald Trump
7. “Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.” - Thomas Edison
8. ”Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
9. “The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.” - Nolan Bushnell
Inward Nine
10. “An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.” - Roy Ash
11. ”Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence.” - Lisa M. Amos
12. ”Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.” - Robert T. Kiyosaki
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
13. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” - Thomas Edison
14. “Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eye off his goal” - E. Joseph Cossman
15. “The more you are willing to accept responsibility for your actions, the more credibility you will have.” – Brian Koslow
16. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” - Robert Collier
17. “Worry is like a rocking chair – it gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you anywhere.” – Van Wilder
18. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” - Winston Churchill
We all need a little kick in the arse from time to time….here’s to hoping these helped you accomplish something important today.
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March 19, 2010 at 9:39 pm
Some great ones in there, here’s one:
“A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.” – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, former Roman Emperor