The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur Quotes

“Excuses are like assholes. Everyone has one, and they all stink.”
― Mike Michalowicz, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The tell-it-like-it-is guide to cleaning up in business, even if you are at the end of your roll.

“Mistakes are good, successes are great and idleness is a sin.”
― Mike Michalowicz, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The tell-it-like-it-is guide to cleaning up in business, even if you are at the end of your roll.

“Action is the only way to make progress. Take action now; don’t wait for a convenient time. It can’t be overemphasized.”
― Mike Michalowicz, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The tell-it-like-it-is guide to cleaning up in business, even if you are at the end of your roll.

“Ideas don’t make money, effort does.”
― Mike Michalowicz, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The tell-it-like-it-is guide to cleaning up in business, even if you are at the end of your roll.

“Your success is entirely contingent upon your foundation of enabling beliefs, your relentless focus, and your actions consistent with those beliefs and focus.”
― Mike Michalowicz, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The tell-it-like-it-is guide to cleaning up in business, even if you are at the end of your roll.

“Success in business isn’t about being right; it’s about being committed.”
― Mike Michalowicz, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The tell-it-like-it-is guide to cleaning up in business, even if you are at the end of your roll.

“What you want is a business that is positioned to scale to the point where you are managing people and constantly improving internal systems – not working to serve customers.”
― Mike Michalowicz, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The tell-it-like-it-is guide to cleaning up in business, even if you are at the end of your roll.

“A belief is what your inner emotion is telling you. A belief is the inner, unswayable knowledge of what you know to be true. It’s”
― Mike Michalowicz, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The tell-it-like-it-is guide to cleaning up in business, even if you are at the end of your roll.

“If you try to get rich by doing the next big thing, but it isn’t your passion, the competitor who really is passionate about it will eat you up and spit you out. Passion begets persistence. And persistence begets success.”
― Mike Michalowicz, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The tell-it-like-it-is guide to cleaning up in business, even if you are at the end of your roll.

“no matter which path you choose, you have to do it with strong beliefs, absolute focus, and loads of effort.”
― Mike Michalowicz, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The tell-it-like-it-is guide to cleaning up in business, even if you are at the end of your roll.

“Jackass is appropriate, since that’s what your customers will think of you when you try to be everything to everyone. No focus and your products, your services, and your customers suffer.”
― Mike Michalowicz, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The tell-it-like-it-is guide to cleaning up in business, even if you are at the end of your roll.

“Money covers up problems and weaknesses.”
― Mike Michalowicz, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The tell-it-like-it-is guide to cleaning up in business, even if you are at the end of your roll.

“thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning”
― Mike Michalowicz, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The tell-it-like-it-is guide to cleaning up in business, even if you are at the end of your roll.

“It is a big deal being a small business. The world needs you. Actually, the world starves for you.”
― Mike Michalowicz, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The tell-it-like-it-is guide to cleaning up in business, even if you are at the end of your roll.

“We rarely regret the things we did in life when we have followed our passion and taken risks.”
― Mike Michalowicz, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The tell-it-like-it-is guide to cleaning up in business, even if you are at the end of your roll.

“for you to provide the best that you imaginably can, it needs to come from both your head and your heart.”
― Mike Michalowicz, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The tell-it-like-it-is guide to cleaning up in business, even if you are at the end of your roll.

“You must live and serve your Why.”
― Mike Michalowicz, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The tell-it-like-it-is guide to cleaning up in business, even if you are at the end of your roll.

“What do you stand for?”
― Mike Michalowicz, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The tell-it-like-it-is guide to cleaning up in business, even if you are at the end of your roll.

“1. Determine what you want. 2. Set an enabling belief. 3. Commit focus and attention to your goal. 4. Take the most obvious actions to achieve your goal. 5. Monitor your progress, adjusting your actions to realign with your goal.”
― Mike Michalowicz, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The tell-it-like-it-is guide to cleaning up in business, even if you are at the end of your roll.

“I once asked a brain surgeon how difficult her work was. She said that anyone could perform brain surgery because it is an extremely simple process. The only challenge is getting each of the five hundred simple steps done completely and in the right order. Take a Break – Once you are in the groove, taking action and getting stuff done, realize that you will get tired at some point.”
― Mike Michalowicz, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The tell-it-like-it-is guide to cleaning up in business, even if you are at the end of your roll.

“He realized retailers were using his antiques for differentiation, and that he was not in the antique business but the brand identity business. This realization would make him millions.”
― Mike Michalowicz, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The tell-it-like-it-is guide to cleaning up in business, even if you are at the end of your roll.

“A belief is the inner, unswayable knowledge of what you know to be true. It’s that constant, ever-present conversation that is going on in your head.”
― Mike Michalowicz, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The tell-it-like-it-is guide to cleaning up in business, even if you are at the end of your roll.

“Money allows us to be more of who we already are.”
― Mike Michalowicz, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The tell-it-like-it-is guide to cleaning up in business, even if you are at the end of your roll.

“It is a shame that the majority of us waste even a second of life hoping something will be handed to us instead of using our talents and passion to make it ourselves.”
― Mike Michalowicz, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The tell-it-like-it-is guide to cleaning up in business, even if you are at the end of your roll.

“Don’t start a business if your reason is simply to get rich quick. Greed is not becoming and does not have lasting results. No matter when you are presented with barrels full of money, you DO pay for them. Even if you collect your money prior to any effort, like a lottery winner, for example, nature still has an uncanny way of making you earn it. If you’re lucky, your windfall may be earned through the rapid mastery of a new financial discipline. But all too often the earning comes in the form of despair, disaster, and bankruptcy.”
― Mike Michalowicz, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The tell-it-like-it-is guide to cleaning up in business, even if you are at the end of your roll.

“There is a reason they say necessity is the mother of invention. Money covers up problems and weaknesses. Without money, you’ve got to bring your A-game every day. Lack of funds forces you to optimize everywhere and grow the right way.”
― Mike Michalowicz, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The tell-it-like-it-is guide to cleaning up in business, even if you are at the end of your roll.

“I’m too old to start a company – So what are you going to do about it? Wait until you are younger?”
― Mike Michalowicz, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The tell-it-like-it-is guide to cleaning up in business, even if you are at the end of your roll.

“What final words would you like to utter? I hope they are words steeped with feelings of contentment, words that say that you lived life to the fullest, pushed beyond your limits, and built a company that you are proud of both for how much it accomplished and for how much it made.”
― Mike Michalowicz, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The tell-it-like-it-is guide to cleaning up in business, even if you are at the end of your roll.

“Just for a minute, if there were no limits to what is possible, what would you envision your entrepreneurial company providing you? The first thing that pops into almost everyone’s mind is financial independence. I agree. I totally agree. But there is more, isn’t there? What if building your business made you feel emotionally satisfied, totally happy? What if your business made a difference? What if you woke up every morning excited to work? What if people loved your company? What if the world heralded what you did and happily consumed what you had to offer?”
― Mike Michalowicz, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The tell-it-like-it-is guide to cleaning up in business, even if you are at the end of your roll.

“Committing to a business without intimately knowing yourself is a fool’s dream. Going “all-in” on a bad hand is a stupid move, and so is jumping feet-first into business without knowing the cards you’re holding.”
― Mike Michalowicz, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The tell-it-like-it-is guide to cleaning up in business, even if you are at the end of your roll.