LOVELY QUOTES ABOUT ENTREPRENEURSHIP!!

Of all the questions we leave unanswered, the one that comes back to haunt us the most is :"What if…"

What if I'd married my college sweetheart?

What if I had the good sense not to?

What if I had been born in this job market?

What if...

What if I'd planned a little less?

What if I'd lived a little more?

What if I'd chucked it all and started my own company?

'What ifs' are never idle fantasy. These are our hopes, dreams and desires. 

Logic and reason are the naphthalene balls we use to pack them away into a sandook called 'Someday'. But when that day comes we are too old, too poor, too tired or too lazy.

The thing with entrepreneurship is you can't afford to have a big ego. You want to stay in business, you do every bit of business that comes along. You want to keep the dream afloat, you don't care what the neighbours and relatives have to say about who wears the pants in your house.

Entrepreneurship is about dozens of small leaps of faith. Taken every day. Often, you have to take a contrarian stand. You can't say why but this feels right. And you have to have it your way. The very act of becoming an entrepreneur is contrarian to ‘middle class values’; study hard, get a good job, be happy with secure income and steady salary.

Entrepreneurs are seekers. And they are always open to change. There are different kinds of pressures operating at each stage- you evolve, and learn to cope with them.

And if you chase something long enough, sooner or later you will get lucky. If you are really lucky then you will do it in 5 years, if you are moderately lucky then you will do it in 10 years, if you are terribly unlucky you will do it in 15 years.” 

“But if we had missed this bus, I would have continued working at what I was doing and maybe I would have succeeded at something else 5-6 years hence. The point is to try long enough and hard enough. I think persistence is a quality that you have to have, to be a successful entrepreneur.” 

If you love your work, and it gives your life meaning, then you will have fun through the difficult times. You will find it in your heart tokeep going. You will never lose hope.

You see, there is no such thing as a failed entrepreneur. You are a failed entrepreneur only when you quit. Until then, you are simply not successful… yet.

Your reality is what you make of it. If you see life with an 'all is wonderful in this world' pair of lenses, that's how it is. This is against conventional wisdom. The middle class ethic of being careful and completely realistic about the big, bad world around you.

You make a plan, even a roadmap. But there could be a vehicle coming at you at full speed from right around the bend. It’s all about facing these bends with courage.

An entrepreneur is a person who has a mind of his own. And that is clear not just from the act of starting an enterprise, but also through decisions taken through the course of her or his life.

Entrepreneurship is an itch. The only ointment which soothes it is work. Lots and lots of it! And it must be interesting, intensive and audacious.

“Like Indira Gandhi used to say, when I am down, and I am pushed against the wall, my best comes out and I don't give up. The fighter in me, the animal in me comes out and says, ‘I will do it and show them’.