10 Successful Entrepreneurs Share The Advice That Made Them Successful

Succeeding as an entrepreneur takes hard work and persistence because, unfortunately, there is no business-startup fairy who magically bestows success on small businesses and their owners. Most successful entrepreneurs follow comparable patterns and share similar basic characteristics. One stop on the road to attaining a billion-dollar fortune is to seek advice at the feet of those who have already attained it. In the spirit of inspiration, we take a look as 10 successful entrepreneurs share the advice that made them successful.

1. Bill Gates

“Success is a lousy teacher, it seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”

2. Steve Jobs

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that dots will someone connect in the future.”

3. Patrice Motsepe

“One has to set high standards… I can never be happy with mediocre performance.”

4. Mark Zuckernberg

“The biggest risk is not taking any risk….. In a world that’s changing changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is taking risks.”

5. Warren Buffet

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”

6. Richard Baranson

“My mother used to tell me never to look back in regret but to move on to the next thing. ”

7. Jack Ma

“Alibaba is not just a job. It’s a dream. It’s a cause. Let the Wall Street curse us if they want.”

8. Barbara Corcoran

“People want to do business with someone they like. If people like you, they’re going to want to do business with you.”

9. Jack Dorsey

“Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.”

10. Micheal Dell

“Be crazy and don’t seek too much advice on what you propose to do.”