Entrepreneur Notes on Week 1
George Clason - Richest Man in Babylon
The ten Ancient Scrolls for Success - Og Mandino - 10 Vowes
Mans Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankel
Stephen Covey - 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Synergistic
Peak Performance on Demand
Good to Great - Jim Collins
The Ministry of Business - Steven Hintz
Your life Plan - Hyrum Smith
Friends - Abraham Lincoln had great friends! "How can a man like Abraham Lincoln be a success? All he has is friends!" Great leaders have a lot of great friends - Great leaders are people who lead others to higher ground while helping them enjoy the journey.
Become a great friend - who knew how to pick them and become like them.
Reid Hoffman's 10 Rules for Success
1. Shoot for Something Large
2. Have a Crazy Idea
3. Build a Great Team
4. Look for Disruptive Change
5. Break Through the Noise
6. Get Feedback
7. Maintain Flexible Persistence
8. Stay on the Right Path
9. Fail Fast
10. Plan for Both Good and Bad Luck
All epic journeys and all paths to mastery begin with a first step—so will yours.
It’s not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
—Marcus Aurelius
Living a life of meaning is about living life with intent.
I learned the power of focus and mastery later in life.
So make a choice. Choose a goal, grand or small. Find a challenge. Pick a foe. Start a fight. No
matter what compels you, you must pass through that narrow gate, that first step that signifies
that there is no turning back.
Four of the hardest challenges will be personal, because you’ll have to
• Accept that life is hard and seldom fair
• Know that you must persevere to develop the habits and character that will determine
your destiny
• Understand that choosing doesn’t mean you are in control, and that real entrepreneurs
learn to fail quickly, cheaply, and often
• Find the right fellow travelers, because you will tend to become like those who
surround you
Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because
once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.
—M. Scott Peck
These wounds hurt, but wounds like these often provide fuel for entrepreneurial heroes. Properly
harnessed, they give you something to fight against and the emotional energy to keep moving
forward. Scenes of formative struggles help explain why Sir Lancelot searches for the Grail or
why Harry Potter must defeat Voldemort. Because, for one, good must triumph over evil, even
when part of that evil is inside of you.
The credit belongs to the man in the arena . . . who if he fails, at least fails while
daring greatly, so that his place will never be with those cold and timid souls
who have never tasted victory or defeat.
—Teddy Roosevelt
Perhaps most importantly, I’ve realized that the true hero’s story isn’t just about the Grail, but
about how the hero is changed in the process. Whether success story or tragedy, the real tale is
about if the hero becomes who he or she is meant to be.
George Clason - Richest Man in Babylon
The ten Ancient Scrolls for Success - Og Mandino - 10 Vowes
Mans Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankel
Stephen Covey - 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Synergistic
Peak Performance on Demand
Good to Great - Jim Collins
The Ministry of Business - Steven Hintz
Your life Plan - Hyrum Smith
Friends - Abraham Lincoln had great friends! "How can a man like Abraham Lincoln be a success? All he has is friends!" Great leaders have a lot of great friends - Great leaders are people who lead others to higher ground while helping them enjoy the journey.
Become a great friend - who knew how to pick them and become like them.
Reid Hoffman's 10 Rules for Success
1. Shoot for Something Large
2. Have a Crazy Idea
3. Build a Great Team
4. Look for Disruptive Change
5. Break Through the Noise
6. Get Feedback
7. Maintain Flexible Persistence
8. Stay on the Right Path
9. Fail Fast
10. Plan for Both Good and Bad Luck
All epic journeys and all paths to mastery begin with a first step—so will yours.
It’s not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
—Marcus Aurelius
Living a life of meaning is about living life with intent.
I learned the power of focus and mastery later in life.
So make a choice. Choose a goal, grand or small. Find a challenge. Pick a foe. Start a fight. No
matter what compels you, you must pass through that narrow gate, that first step that signifies
that there is no turning back.
Four of the hardest challenges will be personal, because you’ll have to
• Accept that life is hard and seldom fair
• Know that you must persevere to develop the habits and character that will determine
your destiny
• Understand that choosing doesn’t mean you are in control, and that real entrepreneurs
learn to fail quickly, cheaply, and often
• Find the right fellow travelers, because you will tend to become like those who
surround you
Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because
once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.
—M. Scott Peck
These wounds hurt, but wounds like these often provide fuel for entrepreneurial heroes. Properly
harnessed, they give you something to fight against and the emotional energy to keep moving
forward. Scenes of formative struggles help explain why Sir Lancelot searches for the Grail or
why Harry Potter must defeat Voldemort. Because, for one, good must triumph over evil, even
when part of that evil is inside of you.
The credit belongs to the man in the arena . . . who if he fails, at least fails while
daring greatly, so that his place will never be with those cold and timid souls
who have never tasted victory or defeat.
—Teddy Roosevelt
Perhaps most importantly, I’ve realized that the true hero’s story isn’t just about the Grail, but
about how the hero is changed in the process. Whether success story or tragedy, the real tale is
about if the hero becomes who he or she is meant to be.