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  • #1
    “You need to ask yourself " How much do you want" before you start your online business.”
    Satyendra Pandey, Make Money Online Using Google Adsense - Complete

  • #2
    Sophia Amoruso
    “Harvard Business School professor Howard Stevenson famously defined “entrepreneurship” as “the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled.” I give a “hell yes” to that definition—you should take that spirit with you to whatever job you’re doing or whatever project you’re undertaking.”
    Sophia Amoruso, #GIRLBOSS

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  • #4
    Chris  White
    “Any entrepreneur with the title 'CEO' on his biz card has got a hell of a lot to learn yet.”
    Chris White

  • #5
    James   Marshall
    “Jesus preached socialism and pacifism," I say, "which is wrong and un-American since it discourages entrepreneurship and doesn't support our troops, but I'm a Christian so I forgive him.”
    James Marshall, Ninja Versus Pirate Featuring Zombies

  • #6
    Ehab Atalla
    “An entrepreneur is like a musician creating a new song.”
    Ehab Atalla, The Secrets of Business

  • #7
    Ken Follett
    “Most rich people have a gangster in their ancestry somewhere.”
    Ken Follett, Winter of the World

  • #8
    Tina Seelig
    “T-shaped people " those with a depth of knowledge in at least one discipline and a breadth of knowledge about innovation and entrepreneurship that allows them to work effectively with professionals on other disciplines to bring their ideas to life.”
    Tina Seelig, What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20

  • #9
    “Lesson learned - in doing business, do not COMPETE but be COMPETITIVE.”
    Diana Valerio

  • #10
    “ I moved from the holy land (Israel) to the land of opportunities (USA)”
    Batya Maman - Sabag

  • #11
    Ehab Atalla
    “Just start. A small business can take you to the level of empire.”
    Ehab Atalla, The Secrets of Business

  • #12
    Dan Senor
    “A 2006 Harvard University study shows that entrepreneurs who have failed in their previous enterprise have an almost one-in-five chance of success in their next start-up”
    Dan Senor, Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle

  • #13
    Vishwas Mudagal
    “Entrepreneurs are different beasts. Beasts who don’t give a damn, who kick ass when required, who stand up to a challenge, and who rise time and again with utter disregard to fear or failure. These are the beasts who run the world.”
    Vishwas Mudagal, Losing My Religion

  • #14
    “It is impossible to think big without thinking complex.”
    Duncan Bannatyne, Anyone Can Do It

  • #15
    Terry Pratchett
    “It was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore colorful ties in a mad, desperate attempt to show there was a free spirit in there somewhere.”
    Terry Pratchett, Making Money

  • #16
    Jarod Kintz
    “I’m not waiting until my hair turns white to become patient and wise. Nope, I’m dyeing my hair tonight.”
    Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

  • #17
    Jarod Kintz
    “Every politician has a promising career. Unfortunately, most of them do not keep those promises.”
    Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

  • #18
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

  • #19
    Emilie Autumn
    “I smile to myself knowing that they may be dead.”
    Emilie Autumn

  • #20
    “You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.”
    Michael Pritchard

  • #21
    Jane Yolen
    “A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.”
    Jane Yolen, Girl in a Cage

  • #22
    Vera Nazarian
    “If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.”
    Vera Nazarian

  • #23
    John M. Gottman
    “If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.”
    John Gottman (

  • #24
    Albert Einstein
    “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #25
    Ted Turner
    “Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise”
    Ted Turner

  • #26
    Amit Kalantri
    “Resources are hired to give results, not reasons.”
    Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

  • #27
    Santosh Kalwar
    “Happiness is a good business these days, more you talk crap about happiness the large number of crowd you will gather.”
    Santosh Kalwar

  • #28
    “Business is all about solving people's problems - at a profit.”
    Paul Marsden

  • #29
    Cory Doctorow
    “Businesses are great structures for managing big projects. It’s like trying to develop the ability to walk without developing a skeleton. Once in a blue moon, you get an octopus, but for the most part, you get skeletons. Skeletons are good shit.”
    Cory Doctorow, Makers

  • #30
    Cal Newport
    “Don’t follow your passion; rather, let it follow you in your quest to become, in the words of my favorite Steve Martin quote, “so good that they can’t ignore you.”
    Cal Newport, So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love



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