Top 492 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Entrepreneurs - Page 3

Refrain from allowing your mind to wander toward other people's goals or to focus away from your own.

What makes 'good tape'? That is the question that has consumed my life for the past 20 years, and I have an answer for you

I understand that finance can be very complex.

The difference between who you are and who you want to be, is what you do.

Train like a beauty look like a beast

When I have a mission, it gives me something to focus on.

Look beyond the failure of others.

Don't forget to balance optimism with fact and belief with reality.

Can you buy friendship? You not only can, you must. It's the only way to obtain friends. Everything worthwhile has a price.

SEO is a race, not a sprint.

We noticed recently that people didn't like it when Facebook "experimented" with their news feed. Even the FTC is getting involved. But guess what, everybody: if you use the Internet, you're the subject of hundreds of experiments at any given time, on every site. That's how websites work.

The secret is to try and do 75% of the things you're really passionate about and maybe 25% doing the shitty jobs that have to be done.

Business is full of pain and hardship and with that, laughter and release.

You know, when I'm with my friends, I'm still 17.

I believe its a lifestyle choice and like any lifestyle choice it will be what you make of it and how fully you live and enjoy it.

There is a huge set of consequences that start stacking up as you approach the end-game. And even in terms of the ending itself, it continues to break down to some very large decisions. So it's not like a ****c game ending where everything is linear and you make a choice between a few things - it really does layer in many, many different choices, up to the final moments, where it's going to be different for everyone who plays it.

Everest is regarded as one of, if not the most challenging of human conquests. I was passionate about climbing and a great believer that one should always challenge their own perception of where their boundaries lie. Everest seemed like an irrational challenge for an Egyptian, so I embraced it wholeheartedly. This feeling grew stronger when I realized that no Egyptian had attempted, let alone stood, on the roof of the world. The desire and pride of representing my country and raising the Egyptian flag on the highest points on earth has been with me ever since.

To be universally liked is to be relatively ignored.

You don't have to do a lot of quantity. It's the quality that counts.

A free throw seems boring but then when you sort of dig into what's going on and the history and psychology and the social anthropology around the free throw - it's interesting.

When you're a little bit dumb and naive things get done that no one believed could be done.

And what do automobile companies do? They see something that's taking off and they want to mimic it, don't they?

Your ability to survive depends on your attitude

Being in the Marine Corps was the best thing that ever happened to me. It can do a lot for a young guy. I owe a lot to the Marine Corps. If I had a son, I'd want him to be a Marine.

Google Plus gives you the opportunity to be yourself, and gives Google that common understanding of who you are.

We have to move away from the entirely ad-supported business because the needs of it means that it has to keep driving into privacy, and that's not good for anyone because we all need to have something about us that is secret from some people.

The desire to impress others is one of the worst forms of mental imprisonment.

Our task is not to bring order out of chaos, but to get work done in the midst of chaos.

While I was at Microsoft, the annual revenues grew larger than the GDP of the Republic of Ghana.

Reality TV is a totally different animal than the infomercial world.

Many [business] people focus on what is static, black and white. Yet great algorithms can be rewritten. A business process can be defined better. A business model can be copied. But the speed of execution is dynamic within you and can never be copied. When you have an idea, figure out the pieces you need quickly, go to market, believe in it, and continue to iterate.

I've been pounding the table here for a year or so saying there's no free lunch, and there is going to be a day of reckoning for every company that thinks they are going to try and sell a free model.

Sometimes the best encouragement in the world is challenging someone to do more than they think they can do.

My experience to date has been that change, particularly relative to business, rarely happens in a revolutionary way. That isn't to say there are not times when major change happens, but my experience is that particularly when you're encouraging businesses to change of their own volition, the change is more slow over time. I don't think global trade is going to go away. I think it's unlikely that global trade and multinationals are not going to be around.

Elections are a kind of business. I have to present myself: 'I can do this and that for this area so please give me your vote'. People vote for the politicians who can best understand and contribute to their region or country. In a business you can choose your clients, and the message is targeted to them only. But politics is universal; no matter what age the audience, you have to send the same message to everyone.

If you don't like what you're getting, then change what you're doing. It's up to you.

Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success.

There are differences in the businesses themselves, but the fundamentals are the same: give customers a good experience, charge them a reasonable price, listen to them, and treat them with respect.

I usually tell people that everything I learned about being an entrepreneur I learned by f'ing up at my first company.

I'm keen on making English language movies. English is still the global language and we can't change that.

Because the way love works in general, you don't need everybody to like you somewhat - you need one person to like you a lot.

Obviously Linux owes its heritage to UNIX, but not its code. We would not, nor will not, make such a claim.

If it's important you'll find a way. If it's not, you'll find an excuse.

You have to make your own chances.

You've got to be like a butterfly and have a metamorphosis.

No matter what an individual decides to become, hard work and determination is very important in today's competitive world. You may also encounter hardships along the way, but you must not get discouraged and you push on in order to fulfill your goals.

Bamboo is flexible, bending with the wind but never breaking, capable of adapting to any circumstance. It suggests resilience, meaning that we have the ability to bounce back even from the most difficult times. . . . Your ability to thrive depends, in the end, on your attitude to your life circumstances. Take everything in stride with grace, putting forth energy when it is needed, yet always staying calm inwardly.

For many of these people the social is just a mirror of themselves. I'm not against the social, but I want something genuinely social, not something that has been fetishized as social so that a group of people can feel better about themselves.

There are literally tens of thousands of very good content providers in the world that don't distribute their content through TV channels.

An MBA doesn’t impress me. A GSD does. GSD = Gets Stuff Done.

When things go right (and they go right a lot - you just got to keep trying) there is nothing to really laugh about.

Real entrepreneurs do what they say they're going to do, wannabes ask about it and have tons and tons of coffee meetings.

An experience like that changes your perspective on life and on the world

People have told us that accessing all of their Google stuff with one account makes life a whole lot easier. But we've also heard that it doesn't make sense for your Google+ profile to be your identity in all the other Google products you use.

With me being in my 40s, I knew who I was.

It's not that I'm deliberately trying to shock people all the time. I'm just doing things that are obvious to me. It's because the public doesn't understand my way of thinking that they get surprised.

Going to a site with more users seems obviously better to me, but at the same time, having a bland, middle of the road profile with bland, middle of the road pictures seems like a bad strategy to me.

A Marine is never intimidated.

One of the big problems entrepreneurs run into is they get too comfortable.

The beauty industry is always led by innovation. When you think about over the past three or four years, some of the best innovation in our industry has come from Korea.