The Entrepreneur Mind Quotes

“The best entrepreneurs create environments of stressful urgency. Entrepreneurs know that start-ups rarely get anything done in a relaxed, take-your-time environment. For example, Steve Jobs, the cofounder of Apple, was notorious for pushing his team beyond its limits by setting seemingly unrealistic timelines. As a result, his company created products quicker than they had ever imagined was possible and thus gained a huge competitive advantage over rival companies like IBM.”
― Kevin D. Johnson, The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs

“To be an entrepreneur is to think differently.”
― Kevin D. Johnson, The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs

“If you don’t have the revenues to hire a team and to replace yourself, your business isn’t profitable,”
― Kevin D. Johnson, The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs

“All entrepreneurs must ask themselves three vital questions that concern their business strategy: Where are we now? Where do we want to be? How do we get there?”
― Kevin D. Johnson, The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs

“Profits Aren’t Everything, They’re the Only Thing.”
― Kevin D. Johnson, The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs

“The best entrepreneurs create environments of stressful urgency. Entrepreneurs know that start-ups rarely get anything”
― Kevin D. Johnson, The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs

“Procrastination is opportunity’s natural assassin. —Victor Kiam, entrepreneur; former owner, New England Patriots”
― Kevin D. Johnson, The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs

“Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing. —Warren Buffett, businessman, investor, philanthropist”
― Kevin D. Johnson, The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs

“Times were good. No, they were great. My company had just passed six figures in revenue, and it was headed to break the seven-figure mark. My team grew to almost twenty people, all of whom were passionate about the business and exceeded my expectations. Various local and national publications were calling me to secure an interview so that they could highlight me, a young entrepreneur with great potential.”
― Kevin D. Johnson, The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs

“Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. —Mahatma Gandhi, Indian nationalism”
― Kevin D. Johnson, The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs

“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. —Stephen Covey, best-selling author, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”
― Kevin D. Johnson, The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs

“People with the ability and the audacity to think big carve the path to greatness.”
― Kevin D. Johnson, The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs

“entrepreneurs take risks. They don’t want a job; they want to create jobs. Their”
― Kevin D. Johnson, The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs

“elite entrepreneurs respond quickly, put their business first, consult with mentors often, hire the best team, create an environment of stressful urgency, use time wisely, and so on. The”
― Kevin D. Johnson, The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs

“It must be borne in mind that the tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. . . . It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin. —Benjamin E. Mays, minister, educator, scholar, social activist”
― Kevin D. Johnson, The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs

“Change happens when the pain to stay the same exceeds the pain to change.”
― Kevin D. Johnson, The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs

“The most important career choice you’ll make is who you marry. —Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook”
― Kevin D. Johnson, The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs

“Clothes don’t make the man.”
― Kevin D. Johnson, The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs

“As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.”
― Kevin D. Johnson, The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. —Jim Rohn, entrepreneur, author, motivational speaker”
― Kevin D. Johnson, The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs

“High expectations are the key to everything. —Sam Walton, founder, Walmart”
― Kevin D. Johnson, The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs

“Systems are the essential building blocks of every successful business. —Ron Carroll, entrepreneur, business coach”
― Kevin D. Johnson, The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs

“The man who has no problems is out of the game.”
― Kevin Johnson, The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs

“Ideas are easy. It’s the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
― Kevin Johnson, The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs

“Many entrepreneurs in the world have cried about their businesses.”
― Kevin Johnson, The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs

“Systems are the essential building blocks of every successful business. —Ron Carroll, entrepreneur,”
― Kevin Johnson, The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs