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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