jtf quotes presentation

Hope

With an Action Plan

Serve - Don’t Sell

With an Action Plan

Fail Fast

Learn quickly

Often Wrong, Never in Doubt

- Complexity Kills - Innovation

Simple solutions have less risk for failure

Passion & Purpose

A winning combination

Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard for resources presently

controlled

Bill Sahlman - HBS

The purpose of business is to efficiently convert resources into products & services that make

people’s lives better.

Charles Koch – Koch Ind.

There is only a one letter difference between nOt working and nEtworking

Steve Loflin – Founder NSCS

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

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

Shakespeare.

“Remember, Trophies don’t Last”

Pat Regan

“When It’s Darkest,Men See the Stars”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

John F. Kennedy

“Creativity is Infinite”

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.

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.

“Entrepreneurship is like theatre – it requires improvisation”

In sales - “No” – Means You have the

wrong person”

Run your own race, run at your own pace.

Look in the mirror, you are the score keeper

of life.

I am on a continuous quest to learn,

connect and create things that matter.Dave Balter – Founder of BzzAgent

It’s funny - people who were right a lot of the time

were people who often changed their minds.

Jeff Bezos

“Teddy Roosevelt once observed that life’s greatest gift is the

opportunity to work hard at work worth doing,”

"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them

think." Socrates

"The answer to the question 'What's wrong with the

world?' is just two words: 'I am,’”

Chesterton