“Market like you OWN the Segment & Optimize as a Startup.”
“Don’t buy value-added. Be the one adding value. Create goodwill.”
“I m trying like hell to leave a footprint, carbon or otherwise.”
“Being an entrepreneur cannot be defined by your successes until it has been built by your failures.”
“If you mean business, then spend your money on the business, not on expensive meals.”
“Opportunities are everywhere. The question is who is going to take advantage of them.”
“Money is always eager and ready to work for anyone who is ready to employ it.”
“People don t buy what you do; they buy why you do it. And what you do simply proves what you believe”
“This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship - the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”
“Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship...the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.”
“The companies that refused to make hard choices, or refused to admit that anything much was happening, fared badly. If they survive, it is only because their respective governments will not let them go under.”
“The people who work within these industries or public services know that there are basic flaws. But they are almost forced to ignore them and to concentrate instead on patching here, improving there, fighting the fire or caulking that crack. They are thus unable to take the innovation seriously, let alone to try to compete with it. They do not, as a rule, even notice it until it has grown so big as to encroach on their industry or service, by which time it has become irreversible. In the meantime, the innovators have the field to themselves.”
“Mom & pop stores are not about something small; they are about something big. Ninety percent of all U.S. businesses are family owned or controlled. They are important not only for the food, drink, clothing, and tools they sell us, but also for providing us with intellectual stimulation, social interaction, and connection to our communities. We must have mom & pop stores because we are social animals. We crave to be part of the marketplace. ”
“The idea of finding value in what people are willing to pay to get rid of it one of the fundamental backbones of ecocapitalism, as I think of it now.”
“In looking at waste as an entirely modern, man-made idea, I stopped viewing garbage as garbage and instead slowly started to see it as a commodity.”
“[I]f Modi is toast, it will in one sense be a tremendous pity. In his way, he represents a third generation in cricket s governance. For a hundred years and more, cricket was run by administrators, who essentially maintained the game without going out of their way to develop it. More recently it has been run by managers, with just an ounce or two of strategic thought. Modi was neither; he was instead a genuine entrepreneur. He has as much feeling for cricket as Madonna has for madrigals, but perhaps, because he came from outside cricket s traditional bureaucratic circles, he brought a vision and a common touch unexampled since Kerry Packer.”
“A good negotiator sometimes win more out of a deal than he expected.”