Top 492 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Entrepreneurs - Page 6

That's the reason I believe in the power of prayer, because I believe you have to be able to first believe in a being superior to you, You have to believe in God and once you're able to believe in God and embrace the greatness of the creator, then you're able to believe in yourself and embrace the greatness that God put into you and each of us, and you're able to tap into that. But there will be days.

Audio is the only medium you can consume while you're multitasking.

Around the world today people are spontaneously spawning a culture dedicated to creating conditions conducive to life.

In the next decade we plan to create the first gender balance engineering school in Africa. We believe women should be part of the solution.

We don't have a choice about Facebook any more. The choice element is less obvious than it seems. Maybe the 1bn poor people and a few hundred thousand rich people can afford not to be on it.. the rest of us don't have any choice.

Since the market tends to go in the opposite direction of what the majority of people think, I would say 95% of all these people you hear on TV shows are giving you their personal opinion. And personal opinions are almost always worthless … facts and markets are far more reliable.

Any time we would talk to another VC, our investors would talk him out of it: 'This is not a good company'... So we were really stuck with our existing investors for the next round.

90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.

Messi is the best player of all time. Better than Pele, better than Maradona and better than anyone else.

You want to hire #? entrepreneurs , people who are natural problem solvers -- the ones who see opportunity when most see impossibility.

Never compromise on hiring the best talent. Build value, not valuation. We have never used tactics like giving discounts, cashback to make customers use our product. This way no one can create a sustainable business.

Even at the person-to-person level, to be universally liked is to be relatively ignored. To be disliked by some is to be loved all the more by others. And, specifically, a woman’s overall sex appeal is enhanced when some men find her ugly.

You only stay in front by coming up with ideas your new competitors haven't thought of yet.

Paint your vision, develop tasks, prioritize action steps and do it now.

Portray your product as average and that's all that it will ever be.

Radio was supposed to die in 1945, when TV came along. It turns out that radio grew and grew, and it's a bigger business today than it has ever been.

If you don't have a deal, you wind up losing money.

Today is just the beginning of Kepler. Because of its super energy-efficient architecture, we will extend GPUs into datacenters, to super thin notebooks, to superphones.

I love travel because you may be uncomfortable, hungry, hot and sweaty, cold and shivering…but damn it, you will never be bored.

When I have a problem I pray about it, and what comes to mind and stays there I assume to be my answer. And this has been right so often that I know it is God's answer.

Find something you love and do it better than everyone else.

The market has a simple way of whittling all excessive pride and overblown egos down to size. After all, the whole idea is to be completely objective and recognize what the marketplace is telling you, rather than try to prove that the thing you said or did yesterday or six weeks ago was right. The fastest way to take a bath in the stock market or go broke is to try to prove that you are right and the market is wrong.

You quit, you lose. You keep going, you may still lose. But, your ambition will never die.

What does the world need that you can provide?”?Express your social mission, whether it’s cause marketing, volunteering, culture, environmental initiatives, sustainable products, or corporate philanthropy?Start before scale: make a commitment, take small steps and then scale when you’re ready?Internalize and share your social mission?Be unfailingly transparent – “If you’re not scared by what you’re saying, you’re not sharing enough

Someone is going to figure out how to make this work and when they do, all the anti-gambling, over-regulating authoritarian governments will be exposed as emperors without clothes. It might not be obvious that this is even happening at first, since these systems are by definition stealthy affairs.

Obsession makes my life bad and my work good.

I have really seen the best in people and I've absolutely seen the worst in people. And I'm happy to say that most of the time I have been seeing the best of people in the first congressional district and connecting with voters and seeing what's important to them hearing their stories and what they want to see happen.

Organized medicine quickly adopted the stance that his alleged "cures" fell into three categories: those who never had cancer in the first place; those who were cured by prior radiation and surgery; and those who died. When Healing Becomes a Crime

It's not that I'm not interested in politics, but rather, I think that the people who become politicians in Japan are not very dynamic. Honestly, I find business much more interesting than politics.

I don't want to be known as a serial entrepreneur. I like doing one thing at a time and making sure that gets my full attention until it's well established. I enjoy the initial years of a company because they are the most dynamic, and that is when I can give the best of myself.

Big companies are almost always far too slow to actually kill a small competitor.

Over-diversification is a hedge for ignorance.

Business today is about making decisions amid ambiguity.

Our advertising partnership with Allegiant Air is a natural fit for us. Branding encompasses everything from good customer service to strategic advertising positioning and targeting. This in-air branding exercise will allow us to target a specific player demographic, while continuing to expand the presence of our brand throughout the continental United States.

The foundation of success is intense desire.

Being human in the digital world is about building a digital world for humans.

Until you have enough money accumulated, sacrifice luxury. Sacrifice TV, time out, and even time with your family and friends.

The worst side of people is political part of the process, the side that can be very mean and nasty.

Individuals don't build great companies, teams do.

After the Donald Trump's election, there was a surge of hate crimes. We saw acts of vandalism, certainly a lot of slander on social media and, in fact, in the last few months, as you mentioned, a number of bomb threats, almost 70, to dozens of Jewish community centers across the country.

Technological transformations give you the chance to set up new and ambitious ventures. That's what I did with FastWeb and that is what we are doing with Babelgum. This is much more than TV because we are making the content available all across the world and you have an open platform with freedom of choice.

Sometimes being in control of everything comes with a lot of challenges.

Markets and exchanges are merely mechanisms which reflect the temperament of man

A Leader must possess credibility, imagination, enthusiasm, vision, foresight, a sense of timing, a passion for excellence and be willing to share.

I urge telecommunications regulators to develop a commercial strategy for delivering effective access to the continent.

We're not talking about insignificant amounts of code. It's substantial System V code showing up in Linux.

You have this one life. So just live it and just do it.

Instead of focusing on the work, you focus on the entropy and the chaos and you get a byproduct.

I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful.

Chinese movies are not just about making Chinese local movies. It's about the Chinese money, the Chinese creativeness participating in a global movie. The problem is not the government not supporting this, they of course support this big time. The problem is whether other people are capable of doing the same thing I'm doing.

Business, like life, is funny. We all go through difficult times, and we all have to face curve balls and challenges, each and every week. And we need to laugh when things are funny. If we take it all too seriously we will go mad.

If you want to continually grow your blog, you need to learn to blog on a consistent basis.

Fear overrides all rational thinking

Free services like Wikipedia I don't think benefit anyone - they don't benefit the professional because they're not paid.

IBM has taken our valuable trade secrets and given them away to Linux.

You can't just place a few "Buy" buttons on your website and expect your visitors to buy.

I just know that there are a lot of people out there who are younger than I am, and I wish to be a role model for them. If they have a dream, I want to help them keep that motivation high, so that they can realize their dream. I want to show people that they CAN have fun in life.

I haven't changed. If it seems I'm becoming more mainstream, doesn't that mean instead that Japan is aligning itself with me? I haven't changed one bit.

Knowing how to distinguish between an ideal keyword and the reality of queries will help you to refine your strategy and success as an online marketer.

The tragedy is women of color have made more progress in basketball than they have in broadcasting.