Ilon kautta

Heräsin tänään todellisuuteen, että yksi ihminen maailmassa kuvitteli minun ajattelevan, etteivät työntekijät ole ihmisiä. Tämä väärinkäsitys on heti korjattava.

Ehkä olen viimeaikoina blogannut liikaa tehokkuudesta ja tuottavuudesta ja sensuuntaisten viestien määrä on jättänyt varjoon perusajatuksen, jonka kirjoitin kirjassani 2005.

Ei ole olemassa yritystä

Yritys on vain työkalu. Läjä paperia. On olemassa vain työyhteisö, yhteisö, jossa on ihmisiä. Ihmisiä, jotka yhdessä toteuttavat yhteistä missiotaan. Jokainen ihminen on rajallinen, kukaan ei siinä mielessä ole ihmeellisempi kuin toinen. Siksi ihmiset tarvitsevat toisiaan.

Vaikka joskus joutuu toteuttamaan matematiikan pakottamia päätöksiä, ei se silti muuta yrittäjän sielua. Yrittäjän sielu on ihmisen sielu ja sydäntä aina sattuu jos joutuu toteuttamaan excelin toteuttamia päätöksiä. On minullekin joskus sanottu rumasti työntekijän toimesta. Suutuksissaan ihminen saattaa sanoa kaikenlaista. Minua se rumasti sanominen sattui. Ikäänkuin pomolla ei olisi mitään ihmisarvoa. Kuitenkin jokainen yrittäjä on ihminen ja yrittäjä haluaa kohdella ihmistä ihmisenä.

Vastikään tehtyn tutkimuksen mukaan juuri pienissä yrityksissä ihmiset ovat tyytyväisimpiä työoloihinsa. Pienissä yrityksissä joutuu tekemään kaikenlaista ja se on myös voima: pääsee tekemään kaikenlaista.

Yritys rakastaa asioita ja käyttää ihmisiä.
Yrittäjä rakastaa ihmisiä ja käyttää asioita.

Taloustiede näkee ihmiset yrityksen resursseina, joita voi käyttää ja jotka ovat kiinteitä kustannuseriä. Ihnimilliset resurssit ovat vaikeimpia hallita. Luontainen yrittäjä näkee ihmiset työkaverina, yksilönä, uskoo ihmiseen ja siihen, että yhdessä saadaan aikaan kustannuksia suurempia tuloksia.

Kun olemme yhtä tiimiä, soudamme yhteen suuntaan, pääsemme varmemmin perille. Pomo on siis yhtälailla samassa veneessä kun työntekijä. Ruokkikaamme yhteistä henkeä työpaikalla. Viedään laivaa samaan suuntaan, ymmärretään myös taloudellisia faktoja näinä vaikeina aikoina. Rakennetaan yhdessä hienompi Suomi ja hienompi tulevaisuus. Otetaan enemmän Supercellin henkeä työpaikoille.

Menestystä elämääsi tällä yhteisellä matkallamme!

Ilkka O. Lavas
sarjayrittäjä

Firman kehitys ei ole ikinä lineaarista. Vaikka tiedät kehitys olisi vuoristorataa niin sijoittaja silti sijoittaa visioon ja tulevaisuuteen ja yrittäjän kykyyn viedä firma sinne.

Tärkeimpiä asioita joita sijoittaja arvioi on:
Tiimi
Strategia
Visio

Yrityksen tavoitteita arvioidessa sijoittaja miettii eri skenaarioita miten sijoitus voi onnistua.
1 Utopia
2 Realistinen
3 Mahdollinen muttei toivottava katastrofiskenaario

Bisneksen aloittaminen on aina uskon asia. Sitä vaan aloittaa koska uskoo oman vision. Samalla tavalla sijoittaja uskoo tai ei usko. Yrittäjän on siis löydettävä itsensä kaltainen sijoittaja joka uskoo yrittäjän visioon.

Sijoittaminen on numeropeliä. Pidit siitä tai et. Sijoittaja haluaa rahansa takaisin moninkertaisena. Sinun tehtäväsi on vakuuttaa että laitat rahan poikimaan ja sijoittaja voittaa.

Helppoa eikö vaan!

Menestystä elämääsi!

Ilkka O. Lavas
Sarjayrittäjä

Vastailin yrittäjyyskasvatukseen liittyvään kyselyyn ja yksi kysymys oli: Tiivistä yrittäjyys kolmeen lauseeseen. Oli todella haastava nostaa nopeaan 3 lausetta. Teki mieli vastata tuhat lausetta. Yrittäjyys on tavoitteellista elämää. Menestyminen, yrittäjyys ja sisäinen yrittäjyys sisältää paljon samaa ideologiaa. Maailmalla on paljon menestyneitä ihmisiä. Olen koonnut tähän ideoita ja ajatuksia omista kirjoistani ja arvostamiltani henkilöiltä.

Menestyjän vinkit sopivat mihin tahansa tavoitteellisen elämän elämisen ajatuksiin ja sisältävät paljon oppia ja viisautta. Keräsin nyt kokoon oman top 300 listani.

1. If you can dream it, you can do it. - Walt Disney
2. Anna unelmillesi mahdollisuus toteutua. - Ilkka Lavas
3. Vapaus. Vastuu. Mahdollisuus. Olla oman elämänsä pomo. - Ilkka Lavas
4. "Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t." - Anonyymi (kiitos Sani Leinolle nostosta)
5. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
- Peter Drucker
6. “Winners never quit and quitters never win.” - Vince Lombardi
7. Example is not the main thing in influencing other people; it’s the only thing. – Abraham Lincoln
8. All of my friends were doing babysitting jobs. I wanted money without the job. – Adam Horwitz
9. The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect. – Adam Osborne
10. The secret of getting ahead is getting started. – Agatha Christie
11. Ole taistelija. - Ilkka O. Lavas
12. Ole utelias ja kyseenalaista - Ilkka O. Lavas
13. Uskalla unelmoida, päätä aikataulu. Menestyjät ovat unelmoijia, joilla on aikataulu. - Ilkka O. Lavas
14. Hyväksy, että sinussa(kin) on kaikki ainekset menestymiseen. Ilkka O. Lavas
15. Älä nirsoile, ole ahkera - Ilkka O. Lavas

16. Tiedä mitä haluat. - Ilkka O. Lavas
17. Sun täytyy varoo mitä sä haluut, sillä sä saatat saada sen. Andy McCoy
18. Nuku ja arvosta lepoa. Menestyjän elämä on tasapainoista. - Ilkka O. Lavas
19. Jos olet kusessa, kilauta kaverille. Ilkka O. Lavas
20. Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. – Albert Einstein
21. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
- Thomas Edison
22. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
- Albert Einstein
23. “As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.”
- Donald Trump

24. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
- Winston Churchill
25. ”Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.”
- Thomas Edison
26. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
- Mark Twain
27. “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”
- Vince Lombardi
28. “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”
- Napoleon Hill
29. “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
- Bill Cosby
30. “Success is not what you have, but who you are.”
- Bo Bennet
31. First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will. – Aleksandr Lebed
32. Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneur will and spirit of the American people, somewhere else. – Allen West
33. One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. – Andre Gide
34. Make it happen now, not tomorrow. Tomorrow is a loser’s excuse. – Andrew Fashion
35. Vision without action is daydreaming and action without vision is a nightmare. – Anon
37. If you’re not living life on the edge, you’re taking up too much space. – Anonymous
38. “Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t so you can spend the rest of your life like most people cant.”
- Warren G. Tracy’s student
39. “To win without risk is to triumph without glory.”
- Corneille
40. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
- Mark Twain
41. After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts. – Aristotle
42. The road to success is always under construction. – Arnold Palmer
43. We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality. – Arthur C. Brooks
44. Today’s developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise. – Arthur Erickson
45. Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games. – Babe Ruth
46. “There is only one success- to be able to spend your life in your own way.” - Christopher Morley
47. “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.”
- Napoleon Hill
48. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
- Albert Schweitzer
49. “What is not started will never get finished”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

50. “When you cease to dream you cease to live.”
- Malcolm Forbes
51. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
- Jim Rohn
52. “The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake- you can’t learn anything from being perfect.”
- Adam Osborne
53. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” - John C. Maxwell
54. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” - Ralph Nader
55. “Choose a job that you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” - Confucius
56. Yrittäjä on kuin huippu-urheilija. Ei huippu-urheilijakaan tee huippu-urheilijan töitä vaan on huippu-urheilija. Koko elämällään, joka hetki. Samalla tavalla ei yrittäjäkään tee työtä vaan hän elää yrittäjyyttä. - Ilkka O. Lavas
57. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
58. I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% – still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work. – Barbara Corcoran
59. Everything started as nothing. – Ben Weissenstein
60. The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. – Benjamin Disraeli
61. Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. – Benjamin Franklin
62. I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. – Bill Cosby
63. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. – Bill Cosby
64. Be nice to geek’s, you’ll probably end up working for one. – Bill Gates
65. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. – Bill Gates
66. Success is not in what you have, but who you are. – Bo Bennet
67. For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. – Bo Bennett
68. If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers. – Bo Bennett
69. Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company. – Booker T. Washington
70. If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals. – Brian Tracy
71. Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are asking, What’s in it for me? – Brian Tracy
72. The longer you’re not taking action the more money you’re losing. – Carrie Wilkerson
73. If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not making decisions. – Catherine Cook
74. Yrittäjä joka ei tee virheitä, ei tee varmasti muutakaan. - Ilkka O. Lavas

75. I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep. – Charles Maurice
76. Leaders don’t force people to follow, they invite them on a journey. – Charles S. Lauer
77. A bad workman blames his tools. – Chinese Proverb
78. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. – Chinese Proverb
79. Norsun voi syödä palasina. Vuoren voi siirtää lapiollinen kerrallaan.
80. Failing to plan is planning to fail. – Chinese Proverb
81. The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now. – Chinese Proverb
82. When you go to buy, don’t show your silver. – Chinese Proverb
83. There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way. – Christopher Morley
84. Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. – Cicero
85. If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock. – Claude McDonald
86. The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. – Colin R. Davis
87. The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. – Confucius
88. To win without risk is to triumph without glory. – Corneille
89. Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic. – Dale Carnegie
90. Do things with passion, or not at all. - Anonymous
91. Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. – Dale Carnegie
92. Ideas are worthless. – Dane Carlson
93. Ideoilla ei ole merkitystä, vasta toteutus luo arvon.
94. The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal. – David Geffen
95. In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. – David Ogilvy
96. A savvy entrepreneur will not always look for investment money, first. – Daymond John
97. An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made. – Daymond John
98. If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. – Derek Bok
99. As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big. – Donald Trump
100. I wasn’t satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement. – Donald Trump
101. Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve. – Dr. Napoleon Hill
102. In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
103. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
104. Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves. – E. Joseph Cossman
105. The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, ‘Go!’ – a leader says, ‘Let’s go!’. – E. M. Kelly
106. Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. – Earl Wilson
107. Teidän juttu vai meidän yhteinen juttu? Oletko messissä? - Ilkka Lavas
108. Go Big, or Go Home. – Eliza Dushku
109. Start today, not tomorrow. If anything, you should have started yesterday. – Emil Motycka
110. The biggest failure you can have in life is not trying at all. – Emil Motycka
111. Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory. – Fortune Cookie
112. If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken. – Gary Vaynerchuk
113. Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom. – General George Patton
114. I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. – George Burns
115. Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching. – George Van Valkenburg
116. He who begins many things finishes but few. – German Proverb
117. It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. – Grace Hopper
118. Joskus on helpompaa tai halvempaa pyytää anteeksi kuin saada lupa. - Ilkka Lavas
119. A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. – Henry Ford
120. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. – Henry Ford
121. I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night. – Henry Ford
122. Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford
123. Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be. – Jack Welch
124. I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success. – Jack Welch
125. If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete. – Jack Welch
126. As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for. – James Cash Penney
127. It is always the start that requires the greatest effort. – James Cash Penney
128. Fall seven times, stand up eight. – Japanese Proverb
129. If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful. – Jeff Bezos
130. Failure is not about insecurity. It’s about lack of execution. – Jeffrey Gitomer
131. Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said. – Jim Rohn
132. Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. – Jim Rohn
133. Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. – Jim Rohn
134. Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know. – Jim Rohn
135. Formal education will make you a living. Self education will make you a fortune. – Jim Rohn
136. Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process. – Jim Rohn
137. Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. – Jim Rohn
138. If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. – Jim Rohn
139. The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. – Jim Rohn
140. The greatest reward in becoming a millionaire is not the amount of money that you earn. It is the kind of person that you have to become to become a millionaire in the first place. – Jim Rohn
141. Raha ei merkitse mitään. Raha on vain tulos siitä, että olet tehnyt jotain hyvää. - Ilkka O. Lavas
142. You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills. – Jim Rohn
143. Every single person I know who is successful at what they do is successful because they love doing it. – Joe Penna
144. If you think that you are going to love something, give it a try. You’re going to kick yourself in the butt for the rest of your life if you don’t. – Joe Penna
145. In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world all rests on perseverance. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
146. What is not started will never get finished. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
147. There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy. – John Baldacci
148. If you start with nothing and end up with nothing, there’s nothing lost. – Michael Dunlop
149. You’ve got to stop doing all the things that people have tried, tested, and found out don’t work. – Michael Dunlop
150. The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job. – Michael Gerber
151. I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. – Michael Jordan
152. One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching. – Mooie
153. A goal is a dream with a deadline. – Napoleon Hill
154. All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea. – Napoleon Hill
155. Anything the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. – Napoleon Hill
156. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. – John C. Maxwell
157. A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. – John C. Maxwell
158. Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life. – John F. Kennedy
159. You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it. – John Lennon
160. Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production. – Joseph A. Schumpeter
161 Nothing turns off an investor more than when an entrepreneur comes in with a ridiculous valuation. – Kevin Harrington
162. You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality. – Les Brown
163. When you cease to dream you cease to live. – Malcolm Forbes
164. I’ve been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies. – Marc Andreessen
165. A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions. – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
166. If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough. – Mario Andretti
167. Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. – Marion C. Garretty
168. Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you. – Mark Cuban
169. Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. – Mark Twain
170. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. – Mark Twain
171. When I finished school, I took my entire life savings – $5,000 – and invested it in a business. I was young. I was inexperienced. But I was an entrepreneur, and I was proud. And in six weeks, I was broke. – Mark Warner
172. Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. – Maya Angelou
173. I treat business a bit like a computer game. I count money as points. I’m doing really well: making lots of money and lots of points. – Michael Dunlop
174. Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together. – Napoleon Hill
175. Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. – Napoleon Hill
176. Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. – Napoleon Hill
177. If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. – Napoleon Hill
178. If you’re not learning while you’re earning, you’re cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation. – Napoleon Hill
179. Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. – Napoleon Hill
180. Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it. – Napoleon Hill
181. Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual. – Natalie Clifford Barney
182. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. – Nolan Bushnell
183. Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice. – Peter Drucker

184. The best way to predict the future is to create it. – Peter Drucker
185. The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. – Peter Drucker
186. The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said. – Peter F. Drucker
187. Hire character. Train skill. – Peter Schultz
188. The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. – Ralph Nader
189. An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
190. I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author. – Ray Kurzweil
191 But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you’re confident that you’ll catch a bird flying by. It’s an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn’t come by, but a few times it does. – Reed Hastings
192. Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. – Richard Branson
193. I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn’t really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going. – Richard Branson
194. I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages. – Robert Bosch
195. You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be. – Robert Collier
196. Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work. – Robert Orben
197. Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners. – Robert T. Kiyosaki
198. There are two rules for success. 1) Never tell everything you know. – Roger H. Lincoln
199. An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it. – Roy Ash
200. Start with the end in your mind. Stephen R. Covey

201. Have the end in mind and every day make sure your working towards it. – Ryan Allis
202. Not a single person whose name is worth remembering lived a life of ease. – Ryan P. Allis
203. The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom. – Silvio Berlusconi
204. You can’t ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new. – Steve Jobs
205. You should always stay hungry. Stay hungry, so you can eat. – Syed Balkhi
206. A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur asked me a question sometime ago, he said, ‘When is the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler?’ I think it’s a great question. I’ll tell you, in my life I’ve never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. – Ted Cruz
207. Lend your friend $20. If he doesn’t pay you back then he’s not your friend. Money well spent. – Ted Nicolas
208. My son is now an ‘entrepreneur.’ That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job. – Ted Turner
209. I’ve always been an entrepreneur, but it’s never been about the money. I like a challenge, the harder the better. – Terry McAuliffe
210. Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly, I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it. – Theodore Roosevelt
211. Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. – Thomas Carlyle
212. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas Edison
213. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others… I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent. – Thomas Edison
214. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. – Thomas Edison
215. Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. – Thomas J. Watson
216. To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. – Thomas J. Watson
217. Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. – Thomas J. Watson
218. Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless. – Tim Blixseth
219. The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money. – Tom Hooper
220. I think when I was on the corporate ladder, it was very difficult to maintain the hours. It’s a little easier when you have you’re an entrepreneur. – Tory Burch
221. If you ain’t making waves, you ain’t kickin’ hard enough. – Unknown
222. Its better to own the racecourse then the race horse. – Unknown
223. You don’t buy a nice car and get rich you get rich and buy a nice car. – Unknown
224. An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes. – Victor Kiam
225 The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vidal Sassoon
226. If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share. – W. Clement Stone
227. Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be. – W. Clement Stone
228. Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it. – W. Clement Stone
229. Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything. – W. Clement Stone
230. Do or do not, there is no try. - Yoda, jedimestari

Do. Or do not. There is no try. - Yoda

231. I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life.. it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true. – Walt Disney
232. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney
233. I’ve been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn’t want a 9-5 job. – Will Estes
234. That’s a tough question; I’ve been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn’t want a 9-5 job. – Will Estes
235. Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity. – Will Smith
236. Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there. – Will Smith
237. Do not wait to strike until the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. – William B. Sprague
238. The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it. – William James
239. Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
240. Every choice you make has an end result. – Zig Ziglar
241. If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal. – Zig Ziglar
242. Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves. – Zig Ziglar
243. One can get anything if he is willing to help enough others get what they want. – Zig Ziglar
244. Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. – Zig Ziglar
245. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have – Zig Ziglar

246. You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. – Zig Ziglar
247. Paranna jatkuvasti. Paranna 12 kertaa vuodessa - Ilkka O. Lavas
248. Menestyjällä on ripaus uhkarohkeutta, muttei yhtään liikaa. - Ilkka O. Lavas
249. Menestyvä yrittäjä luo ympärilleen verkoston. Ilkka Lavas
250. Menestyjä uskaltaa päättää, mikä hänestä tulee isona. Ilkka O. Lavas
251. I’ve always worked very, very hard, and the harder I worked, the luckier I got. – Alan Bond
252. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
- Steve Jobs
253. “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.”
- Richard Branson
254. “Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself.”
- Oprah Winfrey
255. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
- Bill Gates
256. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”
- Warren Buffett
257. “One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you.”
- Jeff Bezos
258. If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got! – Alan Scott
259. Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. – Albert Einstein
260. Älä jumiudu yhteen juttuun. Ilkka O. Lavas
261. Pidä huolta osaamisestasi. - Ilkka O. Lavas
262. Osta enemmän arpoja
Pysäyttämätön ostaa enemmän arpoja, sillä onnistumisen todennäköisyys lisääntyy, kun lisää mahdollisuuksia onnistua. - Ilkka O. Lavas
263. Asiakkaan menestyminen ykkösajatuksena - Eero Lehti
264. Toimi kun on aika toimia. Ilkka O. Lavas
265. Elämä on lupauksia, pidä niistä kiinni. Ilkka O. Lavas
266. Palkkaa parhaita - Ilkka O. Lavas
267. Kerää ympärillesi kasvua haluavia osaajia. Ilkka O. Lavas
268. Benchmarkkaa ja vertaa yli totuttujen rajojen. Ilkka O. Lavas
269. Myy kun on aika myydä. Ilkka O. Lavas

270. Katso eri näkökulmista. Kun jokin asia tuntuu liian suurelta, voin siirtyä katsomaan sitä pilvenpiirtäjäperspektiivistä. Voin siirtää itseni mielikuvituksen avulla lentokoneeseen tai vaikka asiakkaani asemaan. - Ilkka O. Lavas
271. Uskalla priorisoida ja tunnista se, mikä on tärkeintä - Ilkka O. Lavas
272. Kehitä osaamista. Ilkka O. Lavas
273. Tarkkaile kehitystä ja muita, jotta pysyisit nopeana. Ilkka O. Lavas
274. Luo menestyvä ekosysteemi. Ole epäitsekäs ja epämustasukkainen. Ilkka O. Lavas
275. Treenaa fyysistä kuntoasi. Terve sielu terveessä ruumiissa performoi parhaiten. - Ilkka O. Lavas
276. Elä hetkessä, mutta pidä katse tulevaisuudessa - Ilkka O. Lavas
277. Elämä on peli, pelaa se. - Ilkka O. Lavas

278. Aseta mitattavia tavoitteita. Ilkka O. Lavas
279. Ilmaise omistajatavoitteesi - Ilkka O. Lavas
280. Raha on väline, ei palkinto - Ilkka O. Lavas
281. Elä tässä hetkessä. Ilkka O. Lavas
283. Luontainen yrittäjä on onnellinen, sillä hän uskoo unelmiensa kauneuteen. - Ilkka O. Lavas
284. Luontainen yrittäjä on se, joka näkee mahdollisuudet, ennenkuin niistä tulee ilmeisiä. - Ilkka O. Lavas
285. Luontaista yrittäjää ei kunnioiteta siitä, mitä hän sai. Häntä kunnioitetaan siitä mitä hän antoi. Ilkka O. Lavas
286. Luontainen yrittäjä on töissä 24 tuntia, eikä se edes tunnu työltä. Ilkka O. Lavas
287. Luontainen yrittäjä ei tee työtä, hän elää. Ilkka O. Lavas
288. Pitkän tähtäimen tulos mitataan merkityksen synnyttämisellä. Ilkka O. Lavas
289. Jokainen on innostunut välillä. Yksi on 30 minuuttia, toinen 30 päivää, mutta hän joka on innostunut 30 vuotta, menestyy elämässään. - Ilkka O. Lavas
290. Yksikään yrittäjä ei ole menestynyt ilman innostusta. Ilkka O. Lavas
291. Tappio ei ole virheistä pahin. Olla yrittämättä on pahin. Ilkka O. Lavas
292. Arvokkainta maan päällä ei ole raha. Ilkka O. Lavas
293. Yrittäjä hyödyntää mitättömiltä tuntuvat asiat, saadakseen aikaan mahdottomia. Ilkka O. Lavas
294. Perinnön jättäminen maailmalle on yrittäjän palkinnoista suurin. Ilkka O. Lavas
295. Muutos on pelottavin, ja silti todennäköisin asia ihmisen elämässä. Ilkka O. Lavas
296. Moni yrittäjä saa neuvoja. Vain viisas hyödyntää niitä. Ilkka O. Lavas
297. Tyhmä yrittäjä kadehtii kilpailijansa onnea. Viisas rakentaa omaa onneansa. Ilkka O. Lavas
298. Opi kokemuksista. Myös muiden. Ilkka O. Lavas
299. Yrittäjä, oletko korvaamaton? Tökkää sormesi veteen ja katso jääkö veteen reikä kun vedät sormesi pois. Ilkka O. Lavas
300. You must unlearn what you have learned. Yoda

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