“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”
Zig Ziglar
“Prepare for the worst. Plan for the best.”
Lorrin L. Lee
“The Capital river is frozen, but we can unthaw it. Bring private capital together with private enterprise, and we can end this recession and get the river of capital flowing again.”
Thomas J. Powell
“This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation”
Albert Einstein
“When you’re trying to raise an investment for your venture, every ‘no’ gets you closer to a ‘yes’ only if you know why you’ve been rejected.”
Maya Elhalal
“You say: "I have lots of great ideas, but I have trouble figuring out which one to try. Let me tell you about a couple." Investor thinks: "I want to know which idea you're going to kill yourself trying to make successful, not which ideas have crossed your idle mind."”
Contributed by: Maya Elhalal
Guy Kawasaki
“Here's what you should say [to investor]: "This is what my company does..." It's that simple. What you're trying to do is get potential investors to fantasize about how your product or service will make a boatload of money. They can't fantasize if they don't know what you do.”