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Original by Stuart Skorman. Edited for use in this blog about emotions in Entrepreneurship. Starting a business is so difficult, wrenching, exhilarating, terrifying, and joyous-all at the same time that it’s almost an unnatural act. Who wants to inflict that kind of trauma on themselves? Who wants to expose themselves to that kind of nsk?…
‘If you want to be successful in a particular field or endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities. It’s very important that you find something that you care about, that you have a deep passion for because you’re going to have to devote a lot of your life to it.’ George Lucas
‘Anyone who can face up to decision making can learnto be an entrepreneur and behave entrepreneurially . . .Entrepreneurship is a behavior rather than apersonality trait. In 30 years I have seen people of mostdiverse personalities and temperaments perform wellin entrepreneurial challenges. Some entrepreneurs areegocentric and others are painfully correct conformists.Some are fat and some…
‘Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.’ Mahatma Gandhi
‘You look at things and ask – why?but I dream of things that never were and ask – why not?’ George Bernard Shaw ‘The starting point of great success and achievement hasalways been the same. It is for you to dream big dreams.There is nothing more important, and nothing that worksfaster than for you to…
‘There comes a special moment in everyone’s life, a momentfor which that person was born. That special opportunity,when he seizes it, will fulfill his mission – a mission forwhich he is uniquely qualified. In that moment, he findsgreatness. It is his finest hour.’ Winston Churchill
‘We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibersconnect us with our fellow-men, and along those fibers, assympathetic friends, our actions run as causes, and theycome back to us as effects.’ Herman Melville
A great poem from Rudyard Kipling sums up a great deal of advice about how to live your life and to succeed as an entrepreneur: If If you can keep your head when all about youAre losing theirs and blaming it on you.If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,But make allowance for…
Mother Teresa hung a copy of this poem on a wall of the orphanage she founded in Calcutta. Its source is unknown. People are often unreasonable,Illogical, and self-centered;Forgive them anyway. If you are kind,People may accuse youof selfish, ulterior motives;Be kind anyway. If you are successful,you will win some false friends andsome true enemies;Succeed anyway.…
‘Until one is committed there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative, there is one elementary truth, ignorance of which kills countless ideas and endless plans: the moment you definitely commit yourself, then Providence moves. All sorts of things occur that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole…
One of the sales people that works for me was having a few troubles getting “psyched up” to make cold calls to prospects and we sat down to discuss how he was feeling. After a short while I decided he simply needed to do two things – to be clear on his personal and business…
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