To be a leader or an entrepreneur, you are always looking for a lot of inspiration especially from those who played their role and made this world a better place to live. The words they utter were full of wisdom. They were not merely combination of words but an entire philosophy.
Being the student of business leadership, I always tried to decrypt the wisdom hidden in those lines, and came across number of wonderfully well said quotes. I have picked few quotes that can prove pivotal in the course of your entrepreneurial journey.
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.” - Benjamin Franklin
a. The first quote is written by a prolific writer, a philosopher, a scientist, a politician Benjamin Franklin. The quote is for the people who live life as it is, people with no aim, no set landmarks and are devoid of passion. By this, Franklin meant that the people who don’t learn to progress and do not believe in consistent improvement are dead. It’s just their physical presence that becomes a painful drag. Their death actually happens well before their physical death.
I believe a lot of people from 9 to 5 club need to ponder this.
Every mortal will taste death but only few will taste life: Rumi
a. One of the greatest mystics came up with this beautiful life-changing quote that every mortal will taste death but only few will taste life. Everything is mortal in this world, and it is a common belief that all will end one day. Life is the greatest gift, but very few truly live it. The same life has been given to all of us, billions of people living today, but what Jobs, Gates, Musk, Mandela, Chee, and other leaders around the world did to be different. Are we following the same patterns?
You Should Know Something Of Everything And Everything Of Something:
This quote carries a lot of significance when you are into your career either as an entrepreneur or something else. We are living in a world enriched with information around but people are devoid of it. Either you find people that you can term as jack of all trade or few who have sound knowledge of a particular field but they know absolutely nothing about the other dimensions of life. In order to become a complete human being, someone that people get inspiration from, a person with a vision, should consider this quote as an inspiration.
You must be expert in one field, your focus should be one particular field that can later make you known for it. You must possess sound knowledge about it so that whenever someone need guidance, they turn to you. At the same time, you should have general understanding of things which will help you market yourself in much better way. That allows you to have a 360 degree view of things.
Criticism is mediocre tribute to the genius
Only a tiny percentage of people have a mission of change, mission to move mountains, to move human race forward. There were few like Steve jobs, Martin Luther King Junior and Nelson Mandela. However the 90 percent of the people on earth are those who follow a straight line, never take risk, never think big. They criticize. They feel good doing so. Never listen to the nay Sayers, perhaps this is the most important line every great will tell you. Use that criticism as fuel to further strengthen your will to keep moving forward with utmost dedication and conviction. Only mediocre will criticize you because you are shaping up to be different. Be certain, they are criticizing you because they are unable to understand out of the box. Seeing reformist doing so makes them feel uncomfortable.
Love Is Work Made Visible
I would like to share the complete version of this beautiful quote of one of the most read writer “Khalil Gibran”:
“Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love, but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy”
Read this thrice and you need not to know the explanation. However, one point that you can pick from this is that the entrepreneurs should pick their passion instead of following the traditional path or something they are forced into by the family, cousins, friends or teachers.
He or she must listen to the inner voice, have enough study of things before deciding to choose one. In that case only, you will be able to work with love and be a torch bearer for others.
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.- Winston Churchil”
A general perception about success is having money. There are zillion examples when people lost money in no time. The real success is going through failures with no loss of passion. Because failure teaches you the art of life. Failure makes you a better human being as well as entrepreneur. So being an entrepreneur, if you develop the capacity to manage the affairs during crises and repeated failures, you are certain to become a success, a perpetual success that is.