Quotes by Naveen Jain - Page 3

My children have been learning lessons about entrepreneurship since they were in kindergarten, and these lessons are paying off: even though they are only 22, 18, and 15, they have already collectively launched three nonprofit organizations and several new businesses.
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Children
Entrepreneurship
Lessons
Organization
Three
Businesses
Collectively
Nonprofit
Paying
Several
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I believe that entrepreneurs play an unmatched role and the accelerating pace of innovation is transforming the face of global challenges. You must think about the solution differently when you're trying to impact 1 billion people rather than affecting 1 million people.
Naveen Jain / Entrepreneur
Accelerate
Believe
Impact
Innovation
Pace
Thinking
Transforming
Affecting
Billion
Entrepreneurs
Global
Million
Million People
Unmatched
Solution
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While most philanthropists tend to flock together and build their teams around friends, family, or others who happen to be retired or with a lot of free time on their hands, a great entrepreneur knows that success is directly related to the quality and talents of their team.
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Free Time
Related
Retired
Success Time Family
Talents
Directly
Flock
Success Family Time
Philanthropists
Success Is
Teams
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I believe our legacy will be defined by the accomplishments and fearless nature by which our daughters and sons take on the global challenges we face. I also wonder if perhaps the most lasting expression of one's humility lies in our ability to foster and mentor our children.
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Daughter
Children
Defined
Humility
Lasting
Legacy
Mother
Wonder
Daughters
Accomplishments
Foster
Lies
Sons
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When your child comes to you at a young age and declares he or she is passionate about this or that, the natural tendency for many parents, out of love, is to simply support that decision. That's the path of least resistance, but it's not necessarily the best path, in my opinion.
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Resistance
Young Age
He Or She
In My Opinion
Natural Tendency
Tendency
Your Child
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What separates sports from entrepreneurism, however, is that in business we constantly have to overcome undefined and unpredictable challenges. Athletes train for specific events and conditions, whereas entrepreneurs generally have little idea what they will encounter along the way.
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Sports
Athlete
Conditions
Ideas
Undefined
Unpredictable
Overcome
Athletes
Constantly
Encounter
Entrepreneurs
Generally
However
Separates
Specific
Whereas
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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Balanced
Enthusiasm
Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurial
Bitten
Bug
By The Time
Proper
Studies
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Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide.
Naveen Jain / Entrepreneur
Trust
Cases
Giving
Heart
Instinct
Real
Real World
Results
Spit
Variables
Assumptions
False
False Sense
Guide
Gut
The Real World
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I came to the United States in the early '80s and was welcomed with open arms and given the opportunity to pursue my dreams. God has been very kind to us. My family and I are fortunate enough to be successful and we feel a tremendous responsibility and obligation to give back to our great country.
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Dream
Arms
Country
Fortunate
Great Country
Obligation
Open Arms
Pursue
Responsibility
Tremendous
Welcomed
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Philanthropists can learn important lessons from business entrepreneurs. They both spend their time solving problems. And to be successful, they both must overcome physical challenges and create self-sustaining operations. And ultimately, they must allow people to take action for their own benefit.
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Lessons
Operations
Overcome
Benefit
Entrepreneurs
Philanthropists
Solving
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By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people. It begins with an entrepreneurial attitude: take an idea and execute on that idea. If it doesn't work, learn why and build on what you've learned.
Naveen Jain / Entrepreneur
Attitude
Effort
Entrepreneurial
Human Behavior
Millions
Philanthropic
Understanding
Work Effort People
Build
Drive
Begins
Execute
Forces
Harnessing
Millions Of People
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If we want to impact hundreds - or millions - of people, we have to do things differently. If we look at the problem as an infrastructural problem, we cannot make an impact because it requires a lot of effort. But when we convert this problem into a knowledge problem, suddenly the problem is manageable.
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Manageable
Convert
Hundreds
We Cannot
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Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?
Naveen Jain / Entrepreneur
Jobs
Athlete
Gates
Impact
Innovators
Levels
Our Lives
Successful
Athletes
Bill
Bill Gates
Business People
Celebrities
Huge Impact
Inventors
Steve
Visionary
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Just think of the opportunities we can unlock by making education as addictive as a video game. This type of experiential, addictive learning improves decision-making skills and increases the processing speed and spatial skills of the brain. When was the last time your child asked for help with a video game?
Naveen Jain / Entrepreneur
Opportunity
Children
Decision Making
Last Time
Processing
Skills
Spatial
Thinking
Video
Addictive
Education Time Learning
Improves
Unlock
Video Game
Your Child
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The truth is, what Americans enjoy about football is much of what makes the sport dangerous. However, I believe there must be a way to find the art of success and vitality in football, without the driving the level of impact that causes serious risk of head trauma, paralysis and other life-changing injuries.
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Art
Sports
Causes
Football
Impact
Life Changing
Paralysis
Truth Is
Vitality
Injuries
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Apple Computer would not have reached its current peak of success if it had feared to roll the dice and launch products that didn't always hit the mark. In the mid-1990s, the company was considered washed up, Steve Jobs had departed, and a string of lackluster product launches unrelated to the company's core business.
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Computer
Core
Departed
Dice
Considered
Apple
Success Business Always
Current
Feared
Launch
Peak
Reached
Steve
String
Unrelated
Washed
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Don’t wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary “what if” scenarios dreamed up in a conference room.
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Filling Up
Ideas
Real
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As a young boy growing up in rural India, most of what I knew of the world was what I could see around me. But each night, I would look at the Moon - it was impossibly far away, yet it held a special attraction because it allowed me to dream beyond my village and country, and think about the rest of the world and space.
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Dream
Space
Attraction
Country
Far Away
Growing Up
India
Moon
Village
Space World Me
Allowed
Beyond
Each Night
Held
Rural
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Don't wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary 'what if' scenarios dreamed up in a conference room.
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Feedback
Filling
Imaginary
Launching
Scenarios
What If
Time Business Your
Time Business Real
Conference
Dreamed
Fiddling
Solid
Wallow
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Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e. companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.
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Opportunity
Entrepreneur
Focus
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Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.
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Opportunity
Effort
Focus
Indigestion
Starvation
Die
Time Great Opportunity
Time Great Focus
Companies
Distractions
Eliminate
Entrepreneurs
Few
Few Things
Helps
Wasted
Intensely
Rather
Same Time
Suffer
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Many of the problems of poverty and need are really problems of physical infrastructure: not enough hospitals, too few schools, insufficient roads, bridges, and a lack of tools. This is what makes traditional philanthropy so daunting. You could build a thousand new hospitals in some parts of the world and barely make a difference.
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Bridges
Hospitals
Infrastructure
Insufficient
Philanthropy
Thousand
Tools
Barely
Daunting
Make A Difference
Roads
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I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy.
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Clean
Clean Water
Entrepreneur
Funding
Healthcare
Moon
My Time
Skills
Solve
Successful
Express
Facing
Grand
Listed
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As a father, I believe that involving children in sports at a young age is generally, a wise proposition. I believe that healthy competition is... well... healthy; that sporting events foster a spirit of teamwork that far surpasses the events themselves; and that active participation keeps children moving and is good for their self-esteem.
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Wise
Sports
Active
Healthy
Involving
Participation
Self Esteem
Teamwork
Young Age
Foster
Generally
Proposition
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Apple Computer would not have reached its current peak of success if it had feared to roll the dice and launch products that didn't always hit the mark. In the mid-1990s, the company was considered washed up. Steve Jobs had departed, and a string of lackluster product launches unrelated to the company's core business had failed to catch fire.
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Jobs
Apples
Departed
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When I finally had the chance to make my childhood dream a reality - as a co-founder and chairman of Moon Express - my goal was to broaden participation in lunar exploration, and connect the common person to its results. We plan to send robotic rovers - not humans - to the Moon to search for precious metals and rare minerals on the Moon's surface.
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Dream
Moon
Reality
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