1. Hope
With an Action Plan

2. Serve - Don’t Sell
With an Action Plan

3. Fail Fast
Learn quickly

4. Often Wrong, Never in
Doubt

5. - Complexity Kills -
Innovation
Simple solutions have less risk
for failure

6. Passion & Purpose
A winning combination

7. Entrepreneurship is the
pursuit of opportunity
without regard for
resources presently
controlled
Bill Sahlman - HBS

8. The purpose of business is
to efficiently convert
resources into products &
services that make
people’s lives better.
Charles Koch – Koch Ind.

9. There is only a one letter
difference between nOt
working and nEtworking
Steve Loflin – Founder NSCS

10. Insurance takes an
unknown risk and makes it
a known loss.

11. “Nothing is so common as
the wish to be remarkable”
Shakespeare.

12. “Remember, Trophies
don’t Last”
Pat Regan

13. “When It’s Darkest,
Men See the Stars”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

14. “An error does not become a
mistake until you refuse to correct
it.”
John F. Kennedy

15. “Creativity is Infinite”

16. I had a “no passengers” hiring rule
which basically meant that everyone
has to be both an individual
contributor, able to do their job
without support and capable of
handling a team.

17. The difficult part of building
an organization is achieving
what you need with people
you can afford, but a real
joy of entrepreneurship is
doing it and proving that it
can be done.

18. “Entrepreneurship is like theatre
– it requires improvisation”

19. In sales - “No” –
Means You have the
wrong person”

20. Run your own race,
run at your own pace.

21. Look in the mirror, you
are the score keeper
of life.

22. I am on a continuous
quest to
learn, connect and
create things that
matter.
Dave Balter – Founder of BzzAgent

23. It’s funny - people who
were right a lot of the time
were people who often
changed their minds.
Jeff Bezos

24. “Teddy Roosevelt once
observed that life’s
greatest gift is the
opportunity to work hard
at work worth doing,”

25. "I cannot teach
anybody anything, I
can only make them
think."
Socrates

26. "The answer to the
question 'What's
wrong with the
world?' is just two
words: 'I am,’”
Chesterton