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I have a few business ideas (that I'm going to advertise in High Times, amongst other places), and one of them is a service in which I offer to eat and describe pork to kosher people.
Oct 1, 2025
While good business ideas are plentiful, many entrepreneurs struggle to understand payroll taxes, health care and other thorny issues… In other words, they don't have the financial literacy to scale their businesses and attract investors.
There are millions of business ideas out there but only a tiny percentage of businesses succeed.
If you get into entrepreneurshi p driven by profit, you are a lot more likely to fail. The entrepreneurs who succeed usually want to make a difference to people’s lives, not just their own bank balances. The desire to change things for the better is the motivation for taking risks and pursuing seemingly impossible business ideas.
You are surrounded by simple, obvious solutions that can dramatically increase your income, power, influence and success. The problem is, you just don't see them.
To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.
Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
You don't need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.
The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time.
There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.
As soon as I stopped trying to think about a business idea and started focusing on what I’m passionate about, that’s when it came to me.
It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.
My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.
A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
The most exciting business ideas fit on the back of an airplane napkin.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.
You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea.
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
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