Live the Life of Your DreamsWhen you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve.

Stop doing what is easy. Start doing what is right.

Stop doing what is easy or popular. Start doing what is right.

Fail soon so that you can succeed sooner.

Today it is cheaper to start a business than tomorrow.

The beginning is always NOW.

When you were making excuses someone else was making enterprise.

One who doesn't recognise an opportunity is bigger loser than one who tries his hand at an opportunity.

When you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve.

Be creative while inventing ideas, but be disciplined while implementing them.

Truth is the greatest marketing campaign.

Two questions I'm pondering:1. If money didn't exist, would you still chase your dreams?2. If money didn't exist, would you still keep your job?If the answer is "YES" to both, you're on track. If the answer is "NO" to either, what needs to change?

Perfection is born of imperfection.

We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.

Just because you have baggage doesn't mean you have to lug it around.

QUIT = Quickly Uphold Important Things

Perfectionism is a disease. Procrastination is a disease. ACTION is the cure.

Selling is a sacred trust between buyer and seller.

You cannot go back to your past and erase or do alterations, but today you can have a new start

When the going gets tough, people bail. When the going gets easy, people get lazy. Honest, smart, hard work is the way to get results.

It was actually very difficult., especially during the first five years of the start-up stage, when all the odds seemed to be against us—this is probably true for most entrepreneurs. To succeed, you really have to put your heart and soul into it. (p. 71)

Are you in love with your idea more than your reality? Change that.

To be humble is to be teachable. Meek, not weak. The most humble people are the most aggressive leaders. Aggressive because to be truly taught, is to sincerely do. To lead. To start. To achieve. Willingly and urgently doing the work to make change.

Marketing without sales is dead.

At least half the job of CEO is communication - because of human nature. People fear what they don't know. If the board wasn't hearing that things were going well, they assumed that things must be going badly.

Rhetorical question: Did you get to where you are by accepting the status quo?I didn't.

In the end, every startup is different. But in the beginning every startup is the same.

Some thoughts you underestimate but may be capable of energizing the world. Never delay to put your thoughts into words.

Don't just create art to make money. Make money so you can create more art. (Exchange any words you want for 'create art' and see if it fits).

Reading is a test, Its test like a water drop.Famine like you din't even saw it, but when you try to read a book its hard to take a startup but then as long as you read it you getting inside of it!

Wealth isn't about money. It's about options...and you always have options. Choose wisely. Live wealthy.

Once true passion hits you, you can recognize all the times in your life you were chasing the wrong dream. And after you've experienced that sustained fulfillment, you'll never want to settle for anything less.

Sell the results, not the nuts and bolts.

Would you produce, create and bring value to the world if it weren't for money? Or would you veg out? The necessity of money keeps people relevant and active. The paradox is that people who stay relevant and active make money.

In the end it's all about the Zeroes you make

Begin each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.

Starting a business with brother either ends business or ends brotherhood.

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

S.T.O.P. = Start To Open Possibilities

Europe is made of history,America of philosophy,Asia of prosperity,and Africa of opportunity.

I could go and buy one of the islands in theBahamas and turn it into my personal fiefdom, but I am much more interested in trying to build andcreate a new company.

The majority are satisfied living within the idea of the reality instead of the reality of the idea.

Ideas become reality. once you hit that reality, you get a new idea. it's a virtuous upward spiral. However, the majority are satisfied living within the idea of the reality instead of the reality of the idea.

Rebels revel in rewriting reality's restrictions.

Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses and start making changes.

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic.

The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.

Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey.

Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

No one who ever led a nation got there by following the path of another.

You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.

Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.

The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.

Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast.

Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.

The customer is always right...even when they're wrong.

Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.

The joy of disruption comes from accepting that we all live in a temporal state.

Billions of dollars worth of research knowledge lie dormant at American universities waiting for the right disruptor to come along and create a business.

Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the content is controlled by everyone and no one at the same time.

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.

Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

Speed to fail should be every entrepreneur's motto. When you finally find the one idea that can't be killed, go with it.

Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.

An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.

Insight and drive are all the skills you need. Everything else can be hired.

The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.

Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering opportunity.

The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful ones know that the most unprofitable thing ever manufactured is an excuse.

If life, you get what you believe you deserve.

A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.

You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at.

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't.

You can truly have it all, just not all at the same time.

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

Data has no ego and makes an excellent co-pilot.

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.

A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a negative state.

Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

If you can imagine a solution, you can make it happen.

It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.

There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen.

The business world is littered with the fossils of companies that failed to evolve. Disrupt or be disrupted. There is no middle ground.

You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.

All businesses -- no matter if they make dog food or software -- don't sell products, they sell solutions.

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.

The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better.

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?

Disruption isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you respond to what happens to you.

All Disruption starts with introspection.

Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.

Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

There's so much to write. Where should I start?I texted my old Jiko this question, and she wrote me back this:'You should start where you are

Business ideas are like those flying dragons in Avatar. First you have to find one, let it choose you, then be brave enough to ride it.

Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something & give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing.

Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something and give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing.

Do what you love and love what you do, with excellence.

An entrepreneur without funding is a musician without an instrument.

Fear in the absence of knowledge breeds irrationality.We should always seek knowledge, even in the face of fear.

You NEED to learn how to fly before you learn how to land and you MUST learn how to land before you start flying.

You have to work on the business first before it works for you.

Entrepreneurs pay the price of a road less traveled, while everyone else takes the freeway and perpetually misses their own exit.

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

Most startups actually start down and only go up if they catch the winds of market demand.

Be Shameless. Experiment. This is the only way to identify your true passion.

Entrepreneurs don’t ask for permission. They act per a mission.

An entrepreneur is someone who will jump off a cliff and assemble an airplane on the way down.

Every startup is a SME but every SME is not a startup.

It’s not about the content we are creating but how much content our customers are creating for us.

If you can’t write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don’t have a clear idea.

No matter what your reason for wanting to start your own business, developing the foundation is the same. Laying a solid foundation for you business will provide you with a road map to follow as you build your business. As you work through the Start a Business Step-by-Step Workbook you will define the company’s mission, decide what business entity is right for your business, name your business, determine the pricing for your products or services, formulate your financial projections, define your competitors, survey consumers regarding your products or services, determine the marketing methods right for your business and more.

Entrepreneurs see what others can't, do what others won't, and accomplish what others dream.

One of the things I’ve learnt about goals is people will write them or wrong them.

Yesterday is a pile of rubble. Today is a pile of opportunity. Life takes a new dump each morning

Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones?

When strategy, culture, and brand harmonize, they amplify one another and resonate loud and clear.

We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn't about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best.

If your sole focus is money, you may create a successful startup. But if it's impact, you can probably create history.

I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry.

Jean-Baptiste Say may have coined the term 'entrepreneur' but he totally missed the opportunity to put it on a t-shirt and sell it.

Act NOW on those ideas! As they say, you snooze you lose. Or as I say, if you BEGIN you WIN.

The moment you think you know something inside out, is the moment you stop listening. That's when you go backwards faster than you progressed

Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

A lot of the machines that Google is built on—commodity is the polite word for them—they're regular PCs and so they're not always the most reliable.

Paul Buchheit: Then you have what we do with PCs, and that's technically pretty challenging—to take this big network of machines that are unreliable and build a big, reliable storage system out of it.

Writing and achieving your goals is not failure, not having a goal to write in the first place is the start of failure.

For a long time, it was one of these things where—I was really much younger than now—my whole "brand" both to the investors and to our board members was this crazy Russian boy-genius who comes out and sprinkles magic dust on technology and things just work.

For any creative thought to be contagious, it must first be worthy of a sneeze.

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

a good product is not the secret to success

Regret nothing. Everything broken can be remade. And everything remade can once again be broken

Entrepreneurship is a scary city! NO water- dig wells, NO food- plant trees, NO family- build one, NO identity- prove yourself.

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

The best entrepreneurs are not the best visionaries. The greatest entrepreneurs are incredible salespeople. They know how to tell an amazing story that will convince talent and investors to join in on the journey.

Learning to embrace and savor rejection is one of the best things that entrepreneurs can do. Launching a startup is the time to find your ever-optimistic inner child again.

Business is still more often about whom you know, not what you know.

Ideas are meaningless without a masterful execution.

Don’t expect investors to be throwing millions on the table for you to go off and buy a bigger house, get a new car, party half the week away, and generally upgrade your lifestyle.

If you want to glide toward money, you have to make sure your message is clear as a bell, and you need to ensure that you have a unified team capable of communicating it.

Business success requires business preparation. You don't have to be a master tactician, but you do need to have a plan in place. This plan will act as a foundation for everything you want to achieve.

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

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

It's called entrepreneurSHIP, not entrepreneurSTAY. Don't wait. Just ship.

Gamblers take blind risks. Entrepreneurs take risks while visually impaired and feel their way up and out.

Proformas rarely perform; missed projections are more often the norm. Still, we skew them up high, we miss but we try, for proformas which rarely perform.

Just like any other occupationEntrepreneurship also has stage of remorse.All you need to do is to go more deep to know yourcalling better!

Passion without knowledge and the desire to learn is foolishness

Everyone has an idea. But it’s really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you work on the idea.

It used to be said "Build it and they will come," now it is "Build it and bribe them in".

Embrace iteration as the road to improvement, but don't let that lull you into rolling out poorly-thought-out crap.

Investing in a startup does not make you an entrepreneur any more than buying a grand piano makes you a concert pianist.

Make a start, even if you have a controversial idea!