25 Lessons Learned From Top Entrepreneurs

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.

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
2/25

Trust your opinion and instincts.
Philip KrimCASPER
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
4/25

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

Make your solution simple.
Neil PatelKISSMETRICS / CRAZYEGG
6/25

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

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

Tim FerrissENTREPRENEUR
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 LefkofskyGROUPON
Accept failure
as part of your journey.
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
2/25
12/25

Think ahead, we think forward,
sometimes think the unthinkable.
Thornsten HeinsBLACKBERRY
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.
14/25

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

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.
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.
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.
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

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

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.
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.
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.
25/25

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