“One of the side benefits of being an at-home entrepreneur as a parent is that I can share what I do with my kids and show them first-hand what it's like to build a business, and more importantly the benefit of serving others.”— Pat Flynn, instagram.com
“If you want to build a truly great company you have got to ride a really big wave. And you’ve got to be able to look at market waves and technology waves in a different way than other folks and see it happening sooner, know how to position yourself out there, prepare yourself, pick the right surfboa…”— Greg McAdoo, youtube.com
“I came up with 40 new business ideas—everything from creating software to setting up hospital chains, since my wife’s father is a doctor and has a hospital. Then I had about 25 success measures that I used to decide which idea to pursue. One success measure was that I should fall in love with a part…”— Masayoshi Son, hbr.org
“People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge. If you look at these carefully, you don’t think the skull has the m…”— Masayoshi Son, hbr.org
“It takes more passion to choose, on your own, to build a website, a mobile application, or a company than to follow years of instructions to get a degree. A GPA is not a strong indicator of passion, except for the dubious motivations of wanting to find the right answer to other people’s questions. D…”— Scott Berkun, amazon.com
“An entrepreneur is someone who, almost artistically, designs a living entity which embodies the values, beliefs, and ambitions of the creator.”— Jake Lodwick, thoughtcatalog.com