LESSONS LEARNED from 25 TOP ENTREPRENEURS Starting and Running a Business Can Be One of Life’S Greatest Challenges

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LESSONS LEARNED from 25 TOP ENTREPRENEURS Starting and running a business can be one of life’s greatest challenges. Learn from those who have done it and have done it well.

Here are 25 tips, stories and methodologies from some of the most successful entrepreneurs of our time.

LESSONS LEARNED FROM TOP ENTREPRENEURS LESSONS FROM ENTREPRENEURS

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Mark Cuban ENTREPRENEUR / OWNER OF DALLAS MAVERICKS

Limitations to growth are self-imposed.

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Kevin O’Leary ENTREPRENEUR / SHARK TANK

Do everything in your power to support your goals. LESSONS FROM ENTREPRENEURS

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Philip Krim CASPER

Trust your opinion and instincts. LESSONS FROM ENTREPRENEURS

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Steve Jobs APPLE

Endure failure. Steve dropped out of college, was ﬁred from Apple – but both times led him to ﬁnd creativity and led to his success. LESSONS FROM ENTREPRENEURS

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Rand Fishkin MOZ

You cannot surround yourself with “yes men” _ disagreement and conﬂict are good

for business. LESSONS FROM ENTREPRENEURS

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Neil Patel KISSMETRICS / CRAZYEGG

Make your solution simple. LESSONS FROM ENTREPRENEURS

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Jon Taer BARRESCUE TV HOST

Look and see. Don’t just look at the overall business, see every little detail of a business. LESSONS FROM ENTREPRENEURS

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Chip Wilson LULULEMON

Ask for help, you don’t know it all. Trust others and share control. LESSONS FROM ENTREPRENEURS

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Tim Ferriss ENTREPRENEUR

You are the average of the ﬁve people you associate with the most. LESSONS FROM ENTREPRENEURS

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Ron Shaich PANERA BREAD

What it is all about is ﬁguring out what you can do for somebody that nobody else can do better. LESSONS FROM ENTREPRENEURS

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Eric Leofsky GROUPON

Accept failure as part of your journey. LESSONS FROM ENTREPRENEURS

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Dan Gilbert QUICKEN LOANS

There are many ways to get to success. Dan created an environment where his employees listen to customers. LESSONS FROM ENTREPRENEURS

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Thornsten Heins BLACKBERRY

Think ahead, we think forward, sometimes think the unthinkable. LESSONS FROM ENTREPRENEURS

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Dean Kamen ENTREPRENEUR

Resist doing what you’re told! Challenge the status quo. Dean refused to show his math calculations to his teachers because he didn’t see the point. LESSONS FROM ENTREPRENEURS

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Elon Musk TESLA

Starting a company is like “eating glass and staring into an abyss” – if you want that, then go for it. QUOTES FROM ENTREPRENEURS QUOTES FROM ENTREPRENEURS

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Richard Branson VIRGIN GROUP

My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had — everyday I’m learning something new. QUOTES FROM ENTREPRENEURS

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Reid Homan LINKEDIN

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be. QUOTES FROM ENTREPRENEURS

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Sara Blakely SPANX

Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning, because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things dierent from everybody else. QUOTES FROM ENTREPRENEURS

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Dave Thomas WENDY’S

What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone, know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed. QUOTES FROM ENTREPRENEURS

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Ben Silbermann PINTEREST

Don’t take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give — with a few exceptions — generalize whatever they did. Don’t over-analyze everything. I myself have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and ﬁnd out if they work. QUOTES FROM ENTREPRENEURS

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Niklas Zennstrom SKYPE

If you want to be an entrepreneur, it’s not a job, it’s a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations, about going home at 6pm – last thing at night you’ll send emails, first thing in the morning you’ll read emails, and you’ll wake up in the middle of the night. But it’s hugely rewarding as you’re fulfilling something for yourself. HOW THEY GOT STARTED HOW THEY GOT STARTED

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Pierre Omidyar EBAY

Pierre started selling some stu from his personal website, but trac got to be too much and he started eBay. HOW THEY GOT STARTED

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Matt Maloney/Mike Evans GRUBHUB

They worked in Chicago as software developers, they got tired of calling dierent restaurants in search for takeout food for dinner and that’s when they thought of GrubHub, which is valued at more than $3B. HOW THEY GOT STARTED

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Joe Coulombe TRADER JOE’S

Joe operated a small convenience store only to realize that college grads may want better options. So, he stocked his stores with good wine and booze and gave it a tropical theme. Eventually he added in health foods and that’s how Trader Joes’ got started. HOW THEY GOT STARTED

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Steve Jobs/Steve Wozniak APPLE

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