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“I don't think anyone wakes up and says, 'I want my life to suck today.'”
“I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.”
“I have my mother's hips. The minute I eat it, it ends up on my hips.”
“People ask, 'Are entrepreneurs born, or are they made?' I think it's a combination of both.”
“I was one of those guys who never wanted to start their own business. I never saw myself as a leader. I saw myself as a great No. 2.”
“I own a Ferrari race team, and we race all over North America.”
“Business is a sprint until you find an opportunity, then it's the patience of a marathon runner.”
“If you are under the illusion that you can start a business and run it at your life's schedule, you are mistaken. The business is like a starving puppy - when it needs to eat, then it needs to eat regardless of what you have going on personally.”
“I try to get in one, one-hour spinning class per week.”
“I never dreamed I could build a $100 million company. I just happened to build a $1 million company that became a $5 million company, and so on.”
“When I was a waiter, I wanted to be the best waiter I could be and worked to be better at it every day.”
“You can never be satisfied as an entrepreneur, and the basis of any successful, growing business is new clients.”
“Some people will lie to you because they mean to. Others will do it to tell you what you want to hear.”
“When I sold my first business, I wanted to do something nice for my dad. I wanted to give my parents a bunch of money, but they wouldn't take anything from me. They were so happy for me; they felt they didn't need money.”
“It is human nature, especially as we get older, to look for stability in our lives. But if you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you have to fight against that somewhat, as starting a business requires movement. You cannot stay still.”
“The idea of getting a lifetime job, and making $100,000 a year, with benefits, is dead and gone. It's over. And it may never come again. That's a very scary thought for a lot of people.”
“I balance my meals. I have never been a big dessert guy.”
“Long before I had money, my passion for cars was there.”
“Just like any business is a living, breathing thing, an entrepreneur has to be able to adapt over time.”
“I don't think anybody ever started a great business because they wanted to make a little more cash. They had a dream. They wanted to better their life.”