1. "The harder I work, the luckier I get." - Gary Vaynerchuk
The idea is that if you hustle hard enough, you will eventually find a niche where you can be lucky.2. “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity
” – Seneca3. “Business is like sex. It's best when it's done in private.” – Rupert Murdoch
In other words, don't let the public see all your business deals or else they will have less respect for you.4. “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.” – Henry Ford
This quote has been attributed to many people but I think Henry Ford said it first.5. “If you are not paying for the product, you are the product.” - Andrew Lewis
When using free services on the internet you are being used as an advertisement by those companies and they make money off of your data and attention and information about you that they sell to advertisers.6. “The most important thing in life is to believe in yourself because nobody else will believe in you as much as you do
” – Andrew CarnegieI'm not sure if this was said by Andrew Carnegie but it sounds like something he would say (he was very good at self-promotion)7. "Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like no one else so that you can live the rest of your life like no one else." — Richard Branson
Richard Branson likes this quote but he says he doesn't know who said it (although I'm pretty sure it's him).8. "Good businesses are built to last, great businesses are built to change" - Jack Dorsey
Jack Dorsey (the founder of Twitter) describing his philosophy of how he runs Twitter (which has changed quite a bit since its inception).9. "There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and then there's misery." - Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss describes his philosophy on how he manages his time with all his projects going on (e.g., podcasting, writing books, starting companies, etc.). He basically says there's no way to have balance so pick which things give you satisfaction and focus on those things (and be miserable about everything else).10. "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it
If you think about that, you'll do things differently
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Warren Buffett (this quote has been attributed to many people but I think Buffett said it first) The idea here is that once someone does something unethical or illegal there's no going back from that even if everything afterwards is ethical and legal (which isn't always true)
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