A Quote by Phil Libin
The only right reason to be an entrepreneur is to change the world.
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There are many wrong reasons to want to be an entrepreneur. I think there's only one good reason: to change the world.
The only reason you should be an entrepreneur is because that's the only way the idea will come into the world.
You can be entrepreneurial even if you don’t want to be in business. You can be a social entrepreneur focused on the not-for-profit sector. You can be an agriculture entrepreneur if you want to change how people think about farming. You can be a policy entrepreneur if you want to go into government. The idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges.
One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next.
Good entrepreneurs can manage, but no one but an entrepreneur can entrepreneur, let alone help build and lead the world's community of leading social entrepreneurs and their top business entrepreneur allies.
The only reason to give a speech is to change the world.
The only reason I'd ever get a sex change operation is to see what it's like to be right all the time.
The life purpose of the true social entrepreneur is to change the world.
Different parts of the world have different attitudes to failure. Arguably, it may take more courage to be an entrepreneur in Sydney, or Paris, or London, or Japan, or Singapore... but an entrepreneur sees the world for what it could be, not what it is.
Your ideas about right and wrong are just that-ideas. They are the thoughts which form the shape and create the substance of Who You Are. There would be only one reason to change any of these; only one purpose in making an alteration: if you are not happy with Who You Are.
What an entrepreneur does is to build for the long run. If the market is great, you get all of the resources you can. You build to it. But a good entrepreneur is always prepared to throttle back, put on the brakes, and if the world changes, adapt to the world.
All that you need to become an entrepreneur and change the world is a working brain - and pretty much nothing else.
Change or be changed, right? And what we mean by that is that climate change, if we don't change course, if we don't change our political and economic system, is going to change everything about our physical world.
What is the most overrated skill for an entrepreneur? The most overrated skill is skill. Luck is more important. The entrepreneur gets credit for being this genius, when really he was just at the right place at the right time.
Few of us can actually change the world. We can only change ourselves. But if enough people took that to heart, the world would change.
We can only change the world if we have a heart for the world and deliver the message for the world. We can only change the world if we evangelize the world.
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