25 Lessons Learned From Top Entrepreneurs

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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

LESSONSFROM

ENTREPRENEURS


Limitations to growth are self-imposed.

Mark Cuban ENTREPRENEUR / OWNER OF DALLAS MAVERICKS


LESSONS FROM ENTREPRENEURS

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Do everything in your power to support your goals.

Kevin O’Leary ENTREPRENEUR / SHARK TANK


2/25

Trust your opinion and instincts.

Philip Krim CASPER


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 Jobs APPLE


4/25

You cannot surround yourself with “yes men” _

disagreement and conflict are good for business.

Rand Fishkin MOZ


5/25

Make your solution simple.

Neil Patel KISSMETRICS / CRAZYEGG


6/25

Jon Ta�er BARRESCUE TV HOST

Look and see. Don’t just look at the overall business, see every little detail

of a business.


7/25

Chip Wilson LULULEMON

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


8/25

Tim Ferriss ENTREPRENEUR

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


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.


10/25

Eric Le�ofsky GROUPON

Accept failure as part of your journey.


11/25

Dan Gilbert QUICKEN LOANS

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

Dan Gilbert QUICKEN LOANS


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12/25

Think ahead, we think forward, sometimes think the unthinkable.

Thornsten HeinsBLACKBERRY


13/25

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.


14/25

Elon Musk TESLA

Starting a company is like “eating glass and staring into an abyss”

– if you want that, then go for it.


15/25

QUOTESFROM

ENTREPRENEURS

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 Ho�man LINKEDIN

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people

who are already the way you want to be.


17/25

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 di�erent

from everybody else.


18/25

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.


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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.

20/25


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.

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HOW THEY GOT STARTED

Pierre Omidyar EBAY

Pierre started selling some stu� from his personal website, but tra�c got to be too

much and he started eBay.


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Matt Maloney/Mike Evans GRUBHUB

They worked in Chicago as software developers, they got tired of calling di�erent restaurants in search for takeout

food for dinner and that’s when they thought of GrubHub, which is valued at more than $3B.


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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.


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Steve Jobs/Steve WozniakAPPLE

They started out working on the night shift for the game software, Atari, and

gained significant exposure to the computer world together.


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SOURCES:

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/249318

http://www.hu�ngtonpost.com/brian-honigman/35-tech-entrepreneurs-failure_b_5529254.html

http://www.inc.com/jenna-goudreau/15-successful-entrepreneurs-share-the-best-advice-they-ever-got.html

http://www.businessinsider.com/best-lessons-entrepreneurs-learned-in-their-20s-2015-1

http://www.fastcompany.com/3048755/lessons-learned/6-traits-successful-entrepreneurs-all-share

https://www.kabbage.com/blog/100-quotes-from-successful-entrepreneurs

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/243099

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