How to Think Like an Entrepreneur

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice.

‘The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.’

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.’

‘If you believe something must be fully perfect just to get started, a lot of the time you’ll never get started.’

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing

But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you’re confident that you’ll catch a bird flying by. It’s an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn’t come by, but a few times it does

Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp

‘Opportunities are like buses – there’s always another one coming.’

That defiance of the conventional wisdom, to my mind, was very important – and being determined to challenge that thought that you can’t do it as a young entrepreneur.’