Jun 2, 2009
I was reading Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell last weekend and was struck by a quote and its’ relation to the 90% Rule. Neurologist, Daniel Levitin, writes, “The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world class expert — in anything”
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May 8, 2009
There are a few things that you can be sure of as an entrepreneur:
• If you don’t believe in yourself and your ideas then
you can be sure that nobody else will
• If you don’t have passion for your business it won’t
come from anyone else
• If it was supposed to be easy, everybody would be
doing it
• The problems are there not to stop you from
succeeding but to stop the others from going
where you go
• If there are but a few words to live by, let them be
audacity, vision, belief and persistence
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Apr 28, 2009
I have never had the opportunity to start or build a company with an excess of cash. My partners and I have always done it the old fashioned way … a bucket, a paddle and a couple of credit cards. It’s kind of like a recession everyday during the beginning years but it’s a great way to start because ingenuity and a fundamental understanding of your business can be far more productive assets than cash.
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