Will It Fly? Quotes

“The riches are in the niches, but the fortune is in the follow-up.”
― Pat Flynn, Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money

“Your earnings are a byproduct of how well you serve your audience, and you can only best serve your audience when you know exactly who they are, what they’re going through, and what will get them to take action.”
― Pat Flynn, Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money

“In other words, a sure-fire way to predict the future is to take no action at all. When you do nothing, you get nothing.”
― Pat Flynn, Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money

“Create mode is when you’re imaginative, creative, and open to new ideas. Edit mode is when you are logical, regulated, and analytical. Most of us constantly switch back and forth between the two within a given piece of work, like when we write an email. You write a small part, read it, make edits, and then write some more. The major issue is that your editor brain gets in the way of your creator brain. It stops the flow, which can remove the potential of amazing thoughts that you didn’t even know exist in your head from ever coming out. You need these thoughts to surface during this experiment, but your editor brain can get in the way because it’s too focused on making everything right or perfect. Thinking puts your editor brain into the driver’s seat.”
― Pat Flynn, Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money

“Good ideas are common, but those who are willing to take action and execute those ideas are far more rare.”
― Pat Flynn, Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money

“I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through—then follow through.” —Sir Walter Scott”
― Pat Flynn, Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money

“What do you need to bring to the lot in order to give oxygen and life back to your audience, which may be tired of the same old stuff or looking for that missing puzzle piece?”
― Pat Flynn, Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money

“A successful entrepreneur is one who is both successful in business and in life. Too often, I come across successful business owners who are still unhappy because their business decisions have not supported the life they want.”
― Pat Flynn, Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money

“I’m writing a first draft and reminding myself that I’m simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.”
― Pat Flynn, Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money

“you don’t have to go big in the world to experience success. You just have to be big in somebody’s world.  ”
― Pat Flynn, Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money

“Building a successful business is no longer about B2B or B2C. It’s about P2P, those people-to-people relationships.”
― Pat Flynn, Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money

“There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.”
― Pat Flynn, Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money

“The Riches are in the Niches”
― Pat Flynn, Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money

“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.” — Japanese Proverb”
― Pat Flynn, Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money

“The secret of flight is this—you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.” —Michael Cunningham”
― Pat Flynn, Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money

“Every second you waste thinking about a hater or troll is a second you’re taking away from those who matter and can benefit from what you have to offer.”
― Pat Flynn, Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money

“When I look back and carefully examine each of these failures, the fatal flaw always comes down to one of two things: Making money was more important to me than serving people. I rushed into it.”
― Pat Flynn, Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money

“Where in that journey did someone need a hero who wasn’t there for him or her? What made them keep going, and how can I help others keep going, too?”
― Pat Flynn, Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money

“Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO of VaynerMedia, is another person that comes to mind who has a very clear unfair advantage over others, a superpower that he was brought up with that he’s incorporated into everything that he does. He has an unmatched ability to hustle like there’s no tomorrow, and out-hustle everyone that stands in his way. Seriously, the guy works harder than anyone I know, and he loves every minute of it.”
― Pat Flynn, Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money

“When you choose to live the life of an entrepreneur, you choose a path of freedom. You choose to live life on your own terms and can shape it into whatever you want it to be. In fact, everyone is capable of this freedom, but it is the entrepreneur who has mentally turned off autopilot and has taken control of his or her own future. This is”
― Pat Flynn, Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money

“John F. Kennedy once said, “There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.”
― Pat Flynn, Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money

“Share items that are relevant to the group and provide value in every post. When you do this, you will get noticed and you will build trust with those who are there.”
― Pat Flynn, Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money

“products and services we create as entrepreneurs are like elixirs—remedies or cures for certain “diseases” that are plaguing our target market. That analogy has stuck with me ever since.”
― Pat Flynn, Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money

“A need is what you believe your customers require to solve a problem, and the product or business becomes the mechanism to fulfill that requirement.”
― Pat Flynn, Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money

“When you can learn the language of your audience, you can more easily make a connection with them, and ultimately they begin to trust you more.”
― Pat Flynn, Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money

“All of this is vital to define now before you proceed, because what you learn about yourself is going to guide all of your future decisions.”
― Pat Flynn, Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money

“If you were to start a business completely from scratch, with no ideas in mind, then my answer would be the opposite. I would say, yes, you start by seeking out a particular market and honing in on their pains and problems and extract a solution from there. The potential consequence, however, may be that you enter a niche that you’re not really interested in, nor care to serve.”
― Pat Flynn, Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money

“To really know if this is going to work, you need more than just interest, you need a transaction, and”
― Pat Flynn, Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money