Unleash Your Inner Company Quotes

“Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise, risking more than others think is safe, dreaming more than others think is practical, and expecting more than others think is possible. —Ronnie Oldham”
― John Chisholm, Unleash Your Inner Company

“Given my definition, you can now see why I call entrepreneurs a uniquely ethical bunch: They create new solutions for new customer needs, making the world more positive-sum, creating abundance, and eliminating scarcity. Consider”
― John Chisholm, Unleash Your Inner Company

“Entrepreneurs create new positive-sum opportunities where only zero-sum, negative-sum, or no opportunities existed before. And”
― John Chisholm, Unleash Your Inner Company

“Capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid. —Bono”
― John Chisholm, Unleash Your Inner Company

“If your company is not lean enough, you never get very profitable; if you’re too lean, you risk degrading the quality of your solution or losing valuable members of your workforce. As”
― John Chisholm, Unleash Your Inner Company

“To grow your business you need cash, either generated from operations or raised as capital (equity or debt). The more cash your operations generate, the less capital you need to raise. Scalability means the ability of your business to generate increasing cash—cash flow from operations—for each additional dollar of capital invested (”
― John Chisholm, Unleash Your Inner Company

“If you aren’t embarrassed by the first version of your product, you waited too long to launch. —Reid Hoffman, Cofounder, LinkedIn”
― John Chisholm, Unleash Your Inner Company

“[We] try to build the best services over the long term by quickly releasing and learning from smaller iterations rather than trying to get everything right all at once. —Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and cofounder, Facebook”
― John Chisholm, Unleash Your Inner Company

“If you aren’t paying for something, you’re not the customer, you’re the product being sold. —MetaFilter user blue beetle”
― John Chisholm, Unleash Your Inner Company

“In two-sided networks, users on the two sides are separate, well-defined groups who attract each other and create a positive feedback loop between the two sides. The”
― John Chisholm, Unleash Your Inner Company

“To know a potential competitor, talk to its customers and ideally become a customer yourself. What customer needs does each competitor and its solutions satisfy, and how well? We”
― John Chisholm, Unleash Your Inner Company

“Own nothing. Have everything. —Napster”
― John Chisholm, Unleash Your Inner Company

“Reputation is the shadow. Character is the tree. —Abraham Lincoln”
― John Chisholm, Unleash Your Inner Company

“By 2006, CustomerSat’s software had become complex and unwieldy. Too many quick fixes by too-junior software developers for too many years had caused reliability problems, performance bottlenecks, and security holes. We had lost a previous head of engineering, in part, because these problems seemed insurmountable.”
― John Chisholm, Unleash Your Inner Company

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I have been trusted to take the game-winning shot and have missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. —Michael Jordan”
― John Chisholm, Unleash Your Inner Company

“To innovate, live in the world of what might be, not in the world of what is. —Alan Cooper”
― John Chisholm, Unleash Your Inner Company

“It’s not the customer’s job to know what they want. —Steve Jobs”
― John Chisholm, Unleash Your Inner Company

“Your passions are what you care most deeply about, have the highest expectations for, have powerful and compelling feelings about, or that give your life meaning. They may include your job, team, company, family, sports, school, hobbies, communities, faith, travel, investing, gaming, gadgets, or virtually any other subject or activity. Perseverance is persistence in purpose, ideas, or tasks in the face of obstacles or discouragement. Passion (an attitude) and persistence (a behavior) usually go together. But”
― John Chisholm, Unleash Your Inner Company