All-Time Essentials for Entrepreneurs

This is the book that I'm reading currently. A good motivating tool and mind opener. I shall share some of the power phrases or statements which I found useful from this book:

"Some people dream of great accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them." [Anonymous]

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the one you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." [Mark Twain, 1835-1910]

"Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down." [Charles Kettering, 1876-1958]

"Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat." [Napoleon Hill, 1883-1970]

"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak." [Epictetus, 55-135]

"The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer." [Nolan Bushnell, 1943- ]

"Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success." [William S. Gilbert, 1836-1911]

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." [Thomas Edison, 1847-1931]

"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." [Zig Ziglar, 1926- ]

"In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing." [Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919]

"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it." [Bob Hope, 1903-2003]

"Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers." [Elizabeth Arden, 1878-1966]

"Investors don't like uncertainty." [Kenneth Lay, 1942-2006]

"Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." [Ludwig Borne, 1786-1837]

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra." [Jimmy Johnson, 1943- ]

"Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer." [Sun Tzu, 544-496 BCE]

"Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down." [Frank Llyod Wright, 1867-1959]

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." [Walt Disney, 1901-1966]

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one most responsive to change." [Charles Darwin, 1809-1882]

"Formula for success: under promise and over deliver." [Tom Peters, 1942- ]

"In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance." [Bo Bennett, 1972- ]

"If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling, if you can use either one, it's a miracle." [Jack Adams, 1895-1968]

"Be everywhere, do everything, and never fail to astonish the customer." [Motto of US retail chain Macy]

"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship." [John D. Rockefeller, 1839-1937]

"I have never worked a day in my life without selling. If I believe in something, I sell it, and I sell it hard." [Estee Lauder, 1906-2004]

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." [Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970]

"Some people fold after making one timid request. They quit too soon. Keep asking until you find the answers. In sales there are usually four or five 'no's' before you get a 'yes'." [Jack Canfield, 1944- ]

"I've always worked very, very hard, and the harder I worked, the luckier I got." [Alan Bond, 1938- ]

"A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step." [Lao Tzu, c. 600 BCE]

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple." [Theodor Seuss Geisel, 1904-1991]

"Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won't, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can't." [Anonymous]