LESSONS LEARNED from
TOP ENTREPRENEURS25

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
FROM
ENTREPRENEURS

Limitations to growth are self-imposed.
Mark CubanENTREPRENEUR / OWNER OF DALLAS MAVERICKS LESSONS FROM ENTREPRENEURS 1/25

Do everything in your power
to support your goals. Kevin O’LearyENTREPRENEUR / SHARK TANK LESSONS FROM ENTREPRENEURS 2/25

Trust your opinion and instincts.
Philip KrimCASPER LESSONS FROM ENTREPRENEURS 3/25

Endure failure. Steve dropped out
of college, was fired from Apple – but both times led him to find creativity and led to his success. Steve JobsAPPLE LESSONS FROM ENTREPRENEURS 4/25

You cannot surround yourself with
“yes men” _ disagreement and conflict are good for business. Rand FishkinMOZ LESSONS FROM ENTREPRENEURS 5/25

Make your solution simple. Neil
PatelKISSMETRICS / CRAZYEGG LESSONS FROM ENTREPRENEURS 6/25

Jon TafferBARRESCUE TV HOST Look
and see. Don’t just look at the overall business, see every little detail of a business. LESSONS FROM ENTREPRENEURS 7/25

Chip WilsonLULULEMON Ask for help,
you don’t know it all. Trust others and share control. LESSONS FROM ENTREPRENEURS 8/25

Tim FerrissENTREPRENEUR You are the
average of the five people you associate with the most. LESSONS FROM ENTREPRENEURS 9/25

Ron ShaichPANERA BREAD What it
is all about is figuring out what you can do for somebody that nobody else can do better. LESSONS FROM ENTREPRENEURS 10/25

Eric LefkofskyGROUPON Accept failure as
part of your journey. LESSONS FROM ENTREPRENEURS 11/25

Dan GilbertQUICKEN LOANS There are
many ways to get to success. Dan created an environment where his employees listen to customers. Dan GilbertQUICKEN LOANS LESSONS FROM ENTREPRENEURS 2/25 LESSONS FROM ENTREPRENEURS 12/25

Think ahead, we think forward,
sometimes think the unthinkable. Thornsten HeinsBLACKBERRY LESSONS FROM ENTREPRENEURS 13/25

Dean KamenENTREPRENEUR 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 14/25

Elon MuskTESLA Starting a company
is like “eating glass and staring into an abyss” – if you want that, then go for it. LESSONS FROM ENTREPRENEURS 15/25

QUOTES
FROM
ENTREPRENEURS

Richard BransonVIRGIN 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 16/25

Reid HoffmanLINKEDIN The fastest way
to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be. QUOTES FROM ENTREPRENEURS 17/25

Sara BlakelySPANX 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 different from everybody else. QUOTES FROM ENTREPRENEURS 18/25

Dave ThomasWENDY’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 19/25

Ben SilbermannPINTEREST 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. 20/25 QUOTES FROM ENTREPRENEURS

Niklas ZennstromSKYPE 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. 21/25 QUOTES FROM ENTREPRENEURS

HOW THEY
GOT STARTED

Pierre OmidyarEBAY Pierre started selling
some stuff from his personal website, but traffic got to be too much and he started eBay. HOW THEY GOT STARTED 22/25

Matt Maloney/Mike EvansGRUBHUB They worked
in Chicago as software developers, they got tired of calling different 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 23/25

Joe CoulombeTRADER 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 24/25

Steve Jobs/Steve Wozniak APPLE They
started out working on the night shift for the game software, Atari, and gained significant exposure to the computer world together. HOW THEY GOT STARTED 25/25

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