Ten Quotes to Motivate You on the Road to Successful Entrepreneurship

Regarding entrepreneurial quotes that will give you motivation on the road to success, here are 10 quotes I have collected that can inspire entrepreneurs.

1. Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. Benjamin Franklin

Franklin was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. As a publisher, he was also one of the most successful business owners in the United States of his era. The business book "Poor Richard's Almanac" (Poor Richard's Almanac) written by Franklin is still talked about today because it is full of timeless wisdom about wealth and planning. Proper planning is one of the principles for building success. To start a business, create a plan and know where you want to go.

2. Excellence is a habit, not just one or two performances. Aristotle

As an entrepreneur, the winning strategy you need must be based on providing users with distinctive high-quality services or products, but this kind of "excellence" It doesn't happen overnight. Only by persisting and trying your best to do everything well can you persevere until the end in this marathon of success.

3. If you want to be able to do the best you can, then identify every problem and solve it one by one. ElonMusk

How to create excellent quality? The answer is continuous improvement. Musk, one of the best risk-taking entrepreneurs in the industry, believes that great companies come from a constant stream of feedback about how you should improve your product, and you have to figure out how to get it, learn from it, and build for it. Achieve success and improve based on feedback.

4. I believe that failure is just a small collision in the life of an enterprise, which makes you deviate from the target track. My definition of failure is not whether you achieved the expected goal in the end, but whether you tried your best throughout the entire process. SaraBlakely (Founder of Spanx brand)

Can a failure you have experienced recently open a new door for you that can bring different opportunities? You should think of it this way: experiencing mistakes or failures is for Modify products or improve services.

5. The most valuable thing you can create is a mistake. You can’t learn anything from perfection. Adam Osborne (Inventor of the world's first laptop computer and founder of Osborne Company.)

Making mistakes is also part of this marathon. On your journey, it’s okay to fall down, but you have to get up quickly and keep going. Those mistakes and missteps are the most important things you will ever do because they can lead to things changing for the better. You learn more from failure, and the product is improved by discovering shortcomings. You can always do better by learning from your mistakes.

6. What will be his end result as a troublemaker? He will become an entrepreneur. Natalie Clifford Barney (American writer)

Maintaining the entrepreneurial spirit is an important part of this marathon. Are you someone who has some fun, loves to cause some trouble, and can be a wrecking ball if you like the feel of it? Miracles will happen. Don’t be too conventional, roll up your sleeves and start causing some good-natured trouble in your industry.

7. What reflects your value is not your resume but your actual work. Seth Godin (famous marketing guru)

Whether you can become a successful entrepreneur does not depend on people's past experiences. Don’t focus too much on polishing your resume, just learn from your mistakes and share your real work experience with the world.

8.?I like to think about big things. If you're going to think about everything, you might as well focus and think big. Donald Trump (King of American Real Estate)

Never feel that you are too small to come up with great ideas. There are countless successful people in the world who started out in humbler circumstances than you are now. Don’t let the thought of this be an excuse to stop or take action. There is always a way, all you have to do is find it.

9. Your time is limited, so there is no need to waste it copying other people’s lives. Don't be bound by dogma, or you'll be living by what other people think. Don’t let the noise of other people’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. The most important thing is to have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. Steve Jobs

Why is starting a business a marathon just for you? This is why. Why are you an entrepreneur? Why are you showing up at this marathon? Don’t start when you don’t know your goals. What awaits you at the end? You should know the answers and make sure your desire is strong enough to see you through the lows and toward ultimate success.

10. Please chase your ideals instead of money, because money will eventually leave you. How did Tony Hsieh (Zappos founder Tony Hsieh) start a business?

1. Tao.

Does the project make sense? Is it feasible? To put it more simply: Who is it for the benefit of, and who is responsible for it. I personally think that the most classic business plan is: allocate land to local tycoons! One sentence is clear, and everyone knows what to do and what to get. The so-called profit is nothing more than power, money, fame and sex. For whom and in what aspects are you seeking benefits? You must think clearly about them. This is the foundation of survival. Who is responsible for the product? The larger the group responsible, the faster the development will be.

2. People.

How many people are needed in the verification phase of this project. People consider two conveniences: First, skills, just directly examine past work experience. The second is collaboration. Try to find people to cooperate with who have worked together. Core personnel pay special attention to whether there is a running-in period in this regard. What does the project need to do? You must be clear in your mind. You must also be clear about what the partners want to do and what they can do. Only when they come together can they finally decide what to do. If you push it too hard, you won’t be happy and it won’t last, and sooner or later you’ll be in trouble.

3. Money.

? How much does it cost to get the project to its intended stage? The first choice is to make money. Form a small team and you can make money without investing too much. This is the most ideal situation. Secondly, financing, the power of capital is powerful, but the cost of financing is high. Continuous communication with investors and the establishment of trust are not achieved overnight, so you must be mentally prepared. The last time you pay for it yourself, for a project that cannot make money in the short term and cannot get financing, the probability of final success is extremely slim. Unless you are very rich, you may not even see the bubbles if you throw a little bit of money into it. Cause trouble to the family.

4. Time.

Doing the right thing at the right time, the form is always changing. Starting a business requires not only passion and courage, but also rationality and patience. When starting a business for the first time, it is always easy to be too emotional and unable to look at problems realistically. If you can win, fight, if you can't, run away, if you can't run, sell, and if you can't sell, close. Winning a battle does not require skill, it is just a cover-up. Defeating a battle will test the commander's quality. Even if the army is defeated like a mountain, it can be done in an orderly manner. Masters don't sail against the current to achieve their goals, but sail with the wind and the current to the end! This may be nonsense and it won't work. Because only those who have been attached can understand what letting go means. Depending on the timing, every entrepreneur may have to pay some tuition fees.

5. Convenient location.

The local area determines the project cost, personnel mentality, media radiation, policy support, team building, network of contacts, and financial support. We must objectively analyze our own conditions, weigh trade-offs, and maximize our geographical advantages. For example: Beijing’s advantage is its strong brand radiation ability. People all over the country know when it snows in Beijing. Similarly, any good projects produced in Beijing can spread across the country at once. But the shortcoming of Beijing is impetuousness, too many stories, too many myths and legends and too much nonsense. How to objectively and realistically arrange the focus of work according to different stages of the project is enough to think clearly, not to generalize.

6. System.

The most fundamental system is equity, which not only ensures the centralization of decision-making, but also weighs the sense of team belonging. Peacemaker methods such as a 50-50 split are definitely not advisable. It must be clear who is holding the company on its shoulders and who is making the final decision. Democracy cannot fight. The cost of making quick decisions and making adjustments if you make a mistake is far less than endless sitting and talking. In addition, a concise moral bottom line: do not be greedy for public good, do not sell out, do not fight against oneself, and do not disobey orders. Other sections shall be decided and abided by by ***. For start-up companies, the fundamental system is the equity system. On this basis, the role of personnel is far greater than the system. The big brother who takes the lead needs to be broad-minded and courageous, able to tolerate almost any shortcomings and constantly discover the advantages. In the early days, people's subjective initiative far exceeded the system.

7. Luck.

Entrepreneurship is an art rather than a science. Science has two distinctive characteristics, one is that it can be repeated, and the other is that it cannot be proven wrong. However, entrepreneurship does not meet these two points. The second person taking the same path may not be able to make it. The form is always changing, and it is too massive to imitate. For any entrepreneurial success story, you can find more failure cases to prove it. Same project, similar team, similar operating techniques, and even the offices are upstairs and downstairs. But the final result may be completely different. This is the charm of art. Success is 99% of hard work and 1% of luck, but this 1% of luck is much more important than 99% of hard work. It is up to man to plan things, and it is up to Heaven to make things happen. Planning only increases the probability of success, but it does not guarantee success. So if you have started a business, been persistent, and failed, it is okay to prove that you are still young. Don’t be too sad. The above 7 points are paper plans. The following is a detailed description of how to operate:

1. Choose a general direction.

There are many directions for entrepreneurship, such as e-commerce, games, social networking, O2O, etc. Through continuous learning, paying attention to venture capital information, technology blogs, etc., you can also integrate into the entrepreneurial circle and communicate with others, and choose a general direction that interests you based on your own work experience. Once chosen, don't change it easily, because there are unspoken rules in any industry, and it takes time to pay tuition. If you keep changing major industries, your time will probably be wasted, but if you know a little about everything, you will not be good at everything. Entrepreneurship is about doing things that others cannot do. The idea is not important, but becoming an expert in a field is the most important. How to become an expert requires time accumulation and lessons learned from mistakes. Example: Good directions: Internet finance, agricultural e-commerce, combination of software and hardware, big data, health and medical care, clean energy, new agriculture, segmented O2O, etc.; Trap directions: Pan-O2O large platform, mobile Internet, social platform, 3D Printer etc. The so-called trap is that it is hyped to be very hot, macroscopic and beautiful, but in reality it is not operable at all, or the cost is extremely high, or there is no breakthrough in key technologies. It is not something that grassroots should do.

What is the specific general direction? Three points to consider: First, the new market brought about by the emergence of new technologies (note that it is a new technology, not a technology upgrade. Technology upgrades often have a short time window, and they are both If there is a big boss’ own land, don’t touch it easily) For example: Internet revolution. The second is the market brought about by the relaxation of national policies. For example, allowing commodity trading will bring about the real estate market. It is estimated that the confirmation of land rights will create a new landlord class and will also bring new markets. The prospects for new agriculture are promising. The third is the consumption upgrade brought about by rising incomes.

For example: KFC and McDonald's in the county town are just like the wet markets, and their business is much better than in the city. If you join Pizza Hut or the like in a small county, your business will be the same. It will be a major trend to migrate the consumption patterns from first- and second-tier cities to county-level cities. Of course, the most important thing is to base it on your own conditions and interests. Anything you can think of will be done by many people. You need to think about how to do it better than others.

2. Choose an entry point.

There are many demand points in a general direction. When starting a business, you should not start a business across the board, but choose an entry point. Make an absolute breakthrough at one point and then expand with the line.

Take O2O as an example: O2O is a big direction, narrowed down to a specific industry, such as catering (everyone is familiar with it but it is not a good entry point). The catering is still too big, and then it is reduced to fast food. Next, we need to determine the entry point and what problems we want to solve in the fast food industry. To whom is the profit made and to whom is it responsible? To solve the problem of fast food delivery? To solve the problem of convenient food ordering? To solve the problem of customer information management? Or to solve the problem of better taste and cheaper price? Only one thing needs to be solved at the beginning. For example: solve the problem of fast food delivery. Then the next step is very simple, select the target area (office building or school, concentrated and easy to verify). What kind of website? I don’t want it at all. Find someone who is currently doing food delivery business and tell him to deliver for him for free. See if you can deliver food faster. The problem may eventually be discovered: it can't be done any faster. Because every meal time, the elevator in the office building is crowded. Therefore, the fast food restaurant has already prepared standard meals and placed them on each floor in advance. Moreover, each store has a tacit understanding, and if a new opponent comes, there will likely be friction. Fight? Argue? Get rid of the security guard? Haha, I realized what I was thinking at first was wrong. What to do? Please see point 4.

3. The detailed workload is rapidly pushed forward to the end.

After choosing the entry point, the next step is speed and execution. Coordinate the workload in hours, use days as the time points for rewards and punishments, and use weeks as the feedback cycle. If the work cannot be accurate to the hour, the only reason is that the entry point exceeds the team's ability to operate (it is unrealistic to eat a fat man in one bite). If the day cannot be used as the time point for rewards and punishments, the speed and intensity of execution will be affected. If you fail to review plans on a weekly basis, you will miss opportunities, waste time, and weaken morale. Don’t be afraid of mistakes, just be afraid of delays.

4. Adjust the entry point and advance again.

If you push to the end and find that your final expectations are wrong, it doesn’t matter, adjust the entry point and continue to push forward. Improving the speed of food delivery is not enough. You can also try to improve the convenience of ordering food. Continue to proceed as above. Repeated and rapid trial and error is the best way to train your team and quickly find the direction. Don't keep arguing, wasting time and missing opportunities.

5. Expansion.

After finding the breakthrough point. Quickly summarize experience, formulate processes, and expand rapidly. The next possible focus is to find people and money.

6. Establish a threshold.

Is there a threshold in terms of business model? If not, we must quickly establish a threshold in terms of capital. If your own financing conditions are not good, you cannot establish a threshold. Think of a retreat quickly.

7. Exit.

The way to make money without barriers will attract a large number of competitors in a short period of time, and the time window is very short. First make money if you can, and accumulate as much as possible to prepare for the arduous guerrilla war in the future. Secondly, consider selling it. If you can get a good price, it is acceptable. If you can neither make money nor sell it, then shut it down decisively and start over without hesitation. The pain of a zombie project is far greater than a quick admission of failure. ;