entrepreneurship

Stupid is the New Smart.

Remember, the most common thing about common sense is how uncommon it is.

Always be conscious of the fact that someone somewhere is learning a new lesson watching you live your life

The day you wake up thinking the world is yours is the day you start living.

Your price makes a statement about your credibility. The more you charge, the more people respect you!

Entrepreneurship, with the right mindset, can help anyone reach his goals in life.

One of the best ways to attract capital is to outperform the competition.

Money is always eager and ready to work for anyone who is ready to employ it.

I am not the best because I said it, I am the best because I live it

Creative thinking poses a dynamic asset to every human

If you have felt any ounce of fear, insecurity, and uncertainty during your work day, then you might be an entrepreneur.

I__ most endeared to the fact that they used gifts and talents that were taught to them by other enterprising women who looked just like them. These are gifts and talents they brought with them from Africa and other distant shores. These were gifts and talents women used to appease their owners, and make their lives comfortable. These were gifts and talents used to fuel economies and for building communities. In one book I read, nickels from the sale of chicken eggs paid the college tuition of three children.

Don__ try to be original, just try to be good.

Entrepreneurs build ladders, employees climb them.

Any feeling of security is only in your head. Anything could happen at any time. As long as you are strictly someone__ employee at one company, you__e a liability on the balance sheet. I say that as a business owner. We cannot trust any government to provide us with what we need, nor is that its responsibility. We cannot trust most employers either. Insulate yourself with multiple incomes either from different companies or by working for yourself in addition to one main source of income. Diversify and protect yourself." - Chris Lutz, Modular Career Design

Entrepreneur, if your're going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind.

Entrepreneurs see the "no diving" sign and back-up to get a running start.

A good portfolio manager knows which companies to keep and which ones to let go. Many a GP has struggled with portfolio companies that cannot meet their value-creation milestones, or raise additional follow-on rounds of capital, or generate target returns in a time span of, say, five to seven years. The faster you recognize those losses, the better it is._-__s David Cowan says, __ust focus on your top five__he rest is distraction._ The harder part of the investor's discipline is to know when to quit._-__ou have to constantly scan all of those things and be willing to adjust your own sense of what's a reasonable outcome and move the company into a position where it has the maximum chance to succeed. _-__ime is your enemy: Portfolio companies always take twice as much capital and twice as long to exit. Early-stage companies rarely meet milestones as planned and always burn cash faster than anticipated.