Some Days You’re The Potter, Some Days You’re The Clay
Successful entrepreneurship is an ongoing self-improvement project. Some days you are the potter, some days you are the clay.
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Quotes
Hello 2008
Let’s say hello to 2008 and hope the year finds us all healthy, surrounded by loved ones, and living up to our potential.
Entrepreneurial Innovation Comes More From Borrowing & Combining Than Invention
I came across a good quote on innovation and invention in a 2004 article in Fortune Magazine by Harold Evans called “What Drives America’s Greatest Innovators“ (emphasis added) [The] defining characteristic of the innovator: a determination to bring a brainwave into the bustle of the marketplace. […] More innovations come from borrowing and combining than
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Success for a Bootstrapper
Success for a bootstrapper is a startup with positive cash flow; this enables ongoing market exploration and additional investments in innovation.
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Understanding vs. Mastery
Some quotes on the important distinction between understanding and mastery.
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A Good Idea is No Match for a Bad Habit
Some great insights from a column by Frank Hayes on “Conventional IT Wisdom” including: “A good idea is no match for a bad habit.”
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A World Built by Scientists and Engineers But Run by Salespeople
“We live in a world built by scientists and engineers, but salespeople run it.”
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Quotes on Operational Excellence
I collect quotes for entrepreneurs, here are a set quotes on operational excellence. You can follow @skmurphy to get quotes for entrepreneurs hot off the mojo wire or wait until they are collected in a blog post at the end of each month. Enter your E-mail address if you would like to have new blog
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Bob “GoDaddy” Parson’s Rules for Business Success
Bob Parsons of GoDaddy blogged his “16 Rules for Success in Business (and Life in General)” in July of 2006. A question he received at a 2004 speaking event–“What advice do you have for someone who is just starting a business?”–kicked off an effort by the serial entrepreneur to codify the principles he was living
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Some Great Quotes Collected by Tim O’Reilly
Tim O’Reilly had a great post yesterday, “Surprises on the Bookshelves of CEOs” that also included quotes for entrepreneurs that he has collected over the years.
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Ten Quotes To Help You Bring Order Out of Chaos
The following is a time capsule [Ed: more of a “tiny time pill” than a full capsule] from August 7, 2000. This was part of my personal home page in August of 2000 at Cisco. It was the height of the dotcom boom and bringing order out of chaos was a challenge.
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Startups Are Hard Work and Require Planning
Startups are hard work. Many fail in the first year and more than half within five years. Planning allows you to prevent problems, perseverance to overcome them.
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Nuts, Bolts and Jolts by Richard Moran
“Nuts, Bolts, and Jolts” by Richard Moran offers a well organized collection of business advice organized as bullet-length prescriptions.
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Cultivating Calmness in a Crisis
To prepare for a contentious meeting I read Russell Ackoff‘s “The Art of Problem Solving,” over an early breakfast to cultivate calmness in a crisis.
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Julian Fellowes on Persistence, Getting Started, and Logical Consequences
Commentary on Julian Fellowes answers to 3 interview questions about the need to get started, persist, and accept the logical consequences of your choices.
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Kierkegaard on the Art of Helping Others to Understand
An excerpt from Soren Kierkegaard writing on helping others to understand. The key is to start from a deep understanding of the other person’s world view. This echoes Steven Covey’s fifth habit: “Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”
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William Feather on “Perseverance Rewarded”
In “Perseverance Rewarded” William Feather offers some good advice for getting started. Many folks succeed because they don’t realize how hard it is to accomplish what they have set out to do (of course several orders of magnitude more fail).
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More from William Feather’s “The Business of Life”
Six quotes from William Feather’s “The Business of Life” offer practical business wisdom from a successful publisher.
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William Feather’s “The Business of Life”
Seven quotes from “The Business of Life,” an insightful 1949 book by William Feather. It’s a collection of short notes, letters, newspaper columns magazine articles. It’s like reading a blog from the 1930s and 40s.
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Paul Saffo “Best Strategy is Ready, Fire, Steer”
Eight quotes by Paul Saffo on how technology is re-shaping organization design and strategic thinking in both commercial and military realms.
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