Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we’re going to win.
Downturns are the best time to start businesses, because you develop discipline that’s very lean and mean in terms of how to spend money. And those habits serve you very well in good times.
Money is my military, each dollar a soldier. I never send my money into battle unprepared and undefended. I send it to conquer and take currency prisoner and bring it back to me.
Life is hard, money doesn’t care, your tears don’t add value.
Vision is nothing without a plan to execute it.
Nobody forces you to work at Wal-Mart. Start your own business! Sell something to Wal-Mart!
You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.
There’s only one side with me. You get the right side. You get the correct version of the facts.
The only reason to do business is to make money; that’s the only reason for doing business.
I could have easily gone down the wrong path and dropped out of school, but I was given a second chance.
Imagine how foolish you’d look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines – and so can you.
Don’t cry about money, it never cries for you.
Here’s how I think of my money – as soldiers – I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there’s more of them.
I think every entrepreneur in Canada owes the next generation a road map of how to do it again.