Ryan Blair Quotes

#1. If you can't honor a deal, make a new one and try to honor it. And when you're dealing with your investors' money, you have to act as if God himself wrote you the check.

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#2. There are guys I'd love to learn from, but they wouldn't be a good fit for me, so I read their blogs and books.

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#3. Entrepreneurship is an addiction to being successful, not a job or career. You have to feed the addiction and recharge from it or you'll burn out.

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#4. With or without realizing it, every successful person has created behaviors - systems for greeting people, networking, and making telephone calls to aid them in their pursuits. By observing the traits of successful people, you can create your own system for success.

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#5. Steve Jobs is someone I've studied inside and out, and I've applied so many of his techniques and philosophies to my businesses. It's a remote mentorship because I've never met him.

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#6. The only difference between you today and a year from now are the people you know and what you have learned.

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#7. To be successful you have to deal with CRAP. Criticism, Rejection, Assholes and Pressure.

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#8. Life is theater; everyone is an actor - some in the lead, some in the supporting cast.

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#9. Until you have enough money accumulated, sacrifice luxury. Sacrifice TV, time out, and even time with your family and friends.

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#10. To succeed you have to start

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#11. Create experiences that leave you in awe, for these will be the highlights of your life.

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#12. I get thousands of requests for mentorship, but they don't offer anything in return, like filing, cleaning my house, or something. All too often, it's "please mentor me; I need my shot." But they don't offer anything in return.

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#13. Don't let anyone steal your milk.

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#14. As an entrepreneur building a multimillion-dollar business, your failures are going to be your greatest assets, provided you have a philosophy that addresses mistakes, strives to understand them, learns the key elements in them, and turns them into successes.

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#15. Potential is the one power you always have.

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#16. There are degrees of discomfort, and everyone has a different breaking point. But if you want to be an entrepreneur, there is no choice.

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#17. If it's important you'll find a way. If it's not, you'll find an excuse.

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