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The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #Join the Ride QUOTES

1 " The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. "

― Darren Hardy , The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #Join the Ride

2 " The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. 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. "

― Darren Hardy , The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #Join the Ride

3 " Knowledge is not power. That’s a myth. It is the potential for power, but it is not power itself. It’s not what you learn or what you know; it’s what you do with what you know and learn. "

― Darren Hardy , The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #Join the Ride

4 " As Jim Rohn put it to me, “Don’t let your learning lead to knowledge, or you’ll become a fool. Let your learning lead to action, and you can become wealthy. There’s nothing more pitiful than a guy who is smart and broke. "

― Darren Hardy , The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #Join the Ride

5 " Are you willing to make the difficult choices? To do what’s unpopular? It’s not easy, but remember this: When people are calling you out and calling you names, they’re really just calling you a leader. "

― Darren Hardy , The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #Join the Ride

6 " A good question to ask yourself before doing anything you think you fear is, “If I do this, am I going to die?” If the answer is no, then your fear is made up, grossly overdramatic, and it should have no power over you. "

― Darren Hardy , The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #Join the Ride

7 " Look, if you’re going to get better, you have to push yourself. If you push yourself, you’re going to fall. If you’re not falling, you’re not pushing. Falling is part of getting better. "

― Darren Hardy , The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #Join the Ride

8 " Courage is not the absence of fear—it’s feeling the fear and proceeding anyway. As Nelson Mandela said, “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. "

― Darren Hardy , The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #Join the Ride

9 " Effective sales is about finding a perceived need and helping someone fulfill it. "

― Darren Hardy , The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #Join the Ride

10 " Most people are operating at a fraction of what they are really capable of. As the leader you will need to find the unique seeds of greatness buried in each member of your team. You need to remove the weeds (fears, inhibitions, uncertainties), water and fertilize (invest in their personal growth), and provide the sunshine (your positive attitude, belief in them, and example) to transform that miraculous seed inside them into a bountiful harvest of results and productivity. "

― Darren Hardy , The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #Join the Ride

11 " It’s easy to be distracted by the job of growing your business. But never forget that your job as a leader is also to grow people. "

― Darren Hardy , The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #Join the Ride

12 " Don’t let your learning lead to knowledge, or you’ll become a fool. Let your learning lead to action, and you can become wealthy. There’s nothing more pitiful than a guy who is smart and broke. "

― Darren Hardy , The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #Join the Ride

13 " If all the people around you are happy with you, you are not doing great work. "

― Darren Hardy , The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #Join the Ride

14 " If you want to have more, you have to become more. You have to grow into your goals. "

― Darren Hardy , The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #Join the Ride

15 " Most people never live up to the potential they have been given. The results they produce and the life they experience are only a tiny fraction of what they are truly capable of. Why? What stops us? Only one thing: fear. "

― Darren Hardy , The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #Join the Ride

16 " As Jim Collins said in our April 2010 SUCCESS feature, “If you have more than three priorities, you don’t have any. "

― Darren Hardy , The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #Join the Ride

17 " If you’re going to get better, you have to push yourself. If you push yourself, you’re going to fall. If you’re not falling, you’re not pushing. Falling is part of getting better. "

― Darren Hardy , The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #Join the Ride

18 " I had always thought of sales as a way to get something, I could now see it as a tool for giving. For the first time, I began to understand the strange, wonderful irony that sales isn’t about selling at all. "

― Darren Hardy , The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #Join the Ride

19 " If you’re soliciting applicants to fill one of the exclusive seats on your ride, the headline should talk about the opportunity to work with other extremely talented, fun, passionate, and high-character people who are fired up about the great mission, challenge, and vision you are trying to realize. Explain how you invest in your people to help them grow, develop, and achieve their goals—professionally and personally. Then (maybe) footnote the compensation package. "

― Darren Hardy , The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #Join the Ride

20 " If you’re the type of person who’s always thought of “sell” as a four-letter word, this is good news for you. You can now replace that with another four-letter word: HELP. How can you help? How does your product or service address someone’s deepest need or fear? What problem does it solve? How does it make a positive difference? "

― Darren Hardy , The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #Join the Ride