‘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...

‘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...

‘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...

‘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...

‘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: IfIf you can keep your head when all about youAre losing theirs and blaming it on you.If you can...

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...

‘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...