More than ever before in history, individuals can now band together to solve grand challenges. We face enormous problems, but we 'as individuals' have enormous power to solve them.
Peter DiamandisRead
Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business.
Interpretation
Passion drives entrepreneurs to endure the challenges of launching and building their businesses.
This quote by Peter Diamandis emphasizes the critical role that passion plays for entrepreneurs facing the often daunting challenges of starting and growing a business. It suggests that without a deep-seated enthusiasm and love for what they do, it becomes increasingly difficult to overcome the obstacles that arise during the initial phases of a startup, where hard work and resilience are paramount.
In practice
In a motivational speech about entrepreneurship.
More than ever before in history, individuals can now band together to solve grand challenges. We face enormous problems, but we 'as individuals' have enormous power to solve them.
I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see.
I was seeing a lot of entrepreneurs who were effectively working on the next photo-sharing app. I wanted to inspire them to go much bigger, bolder and more significant than that.
If the government regulates against use of drones or stem cells or artificial intelligence, all that means is that the work and the research leave the borders of that country and go someplace else.
The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest market opportunities. And that's a huge thing. Solve hunger, literacy and energy problems, get the gratitude of the world and become a billionaire in the process.
You need to be a little crazy to change the world, and you canβt really fake it.
I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
My very first publication was an estimator - this was a statistical procedure - a kind of invention. My father got a patent and started a business; it wasn't successful, but maybe I have some of him in me.
I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don't have a short-term payback.
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.
If your aspirations are not greater than your resources, youβre not an entrepreneur.
When I started Virgin from a basement flat in West London, I did not set _x000D_ out to build a business empire. I set out to create something I enjoyed _x000D_ that would pay the bills.
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