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I am not someone who puts a lot of pressure on myself. I love a challenge and live for the big stage of an Olympic Games or World Championships. Some people get nervous for the big events but I look forward to them.
— Usain BoltJamaican Sprinter & Olympic Gold Medalist, Fastest Human Ever
Success for me has been the ability to change my life, change my family's life and help a lot of other people. Athletics has brought me fame and fortune and I enjoy using it to help those around me and those less fortunate.
— Usain BoltJamaican Sprinter & Olympic Gold Medalist, Fastest Human Ever
I do what I do because I am good at it, I enjoy it and I have been successful doing it. God gave me a talent and I have worked extremely hard to fulfil this talent.
— Usain BoltJamaican Sprinter & Olympic Gold Medalist, Fastest Human Ever
I believe many of our new generation of entrepreneurs put too much significance on money, and not enough on ideas. If you have a great idea, and the skills to execute that idea, the money will come.
— Frederik Paulsen, Jr.The key to being successful in business is trust, you have to trust the people you work with. This trust must co-exist with competence. First and foremost the people in your business have to be extremely competent at what they do, and then it's up-to you as a leader to have trust in them.
— Frederik Paulsen, Jr.If you are someone who has generated wealth, you have the responsibility to make sure this money is used to benefit the community. This is something that exists in all philosophies, cultures, and all religions. You have an obligation to the people around you, and your society.
— Frederik Paulsen, Jr.I believe that entrepreneurship is something you're born with, or not. I've met many highly intelligent, and incredibly bright people who have not been able to develop their ideas into sensible businesses. Entrepreneurship is not related to intelligence, it's something you have or don't have.
— Frederik Paulsen, Jr.Without truthfulness I would never have been able to grow anything of any significance, I would have been 'found out.' Having truthfulness and ethics within a business creates trust among employees at all levels and is critical.
— John CaudwellBillionaire British entrepreneur and founder of Phones 4u mobile retailer
I used to say to all my people that yes- we can celebrate our successes, and we have to succeed, but the failures are what will sink the business or hold it back.
— John CaudwellBillionaire British entrepreneur and founder of Phones 4u mobile retailer
You cannot run a business without great people, who are incentivised to be great; and so, you must protect them, and pay them appropriately.
— John CaudwellBillionaire British entrepreneur and founder of Phones 4u mobile retailer
In line with most highly-tuned talents, I absolutely believe that entrepreneurship is a genetic gift that you're born with. What you do with that gift depends on your upbringing, opportunities and inspirations; you either make them massively better or neglect them.
— John CaudwellBillionaire British entrepreneur and founder of Phones 4u mobile retailer
There are no people called entrepreneurs but people perform entrepreneurial functions at different times. Edison performed great entrepreneurial acts. But he was also fierce opponent of innovation when it threatened his business interests.
— Professor Calestous JumaLeading African innovation and development scholar at Harvard Kennedy School
The fear of loss is real because it is based on perceptions of reality. It cannot be wished away by education. The idea that education can reduce resistance to innovation is often informed by the misguided view that people oppose new technologies because of ignorance. This is not the case.
— Professor Calestous JumaLeading African innovation and development scholar at Harvard Kennedy School
People really don't oppose new technologies but they question the way they are used so the challenges are more social than they are technological.
— Professor Calestous JumaLeading African innovation and development scholar at Harvard Kennedy School
It is natural that a society would want to keep what they think works, the status quo. We are also acutely aware that technological changes alters society in unpredictable ways. It is the uncertainty associated with change—especially the fear of losing what we value—that leads to resistance to change.
— Professor Calestous JumaLeading African innovation and development scholar at Harvard Kennedy School
We are born creative and often seek to transform our surroundings to suit our existence. Everything around us constantly changes and so creative options for adapting to this change become the only guarantee we have for a meaningful existence.
— Professor Calestous JumaLeading African innovation and development scholar at Harvard Kennedy School