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Remember these 20 quotes on why a sense of urgency is important in business

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If you have a great sense of urgency, working with people without one can be frustrating.

While all you can think about is making progress in the things that you do, it is discouraging to have teammates or business partners with an “It is okay, the time will come” attitude.

People often misunderstand the sense of urgency with the sense of emergency. In the case of emergency, some people will run around like a chicken with its head cut off.

This kind of attitude will lead you nowhere and it is just being unproductive.

On the other hand, to have a sense of urgency is to know the value of time and planning while focusing your eyes in the prize.

It is not about doing the same thing everyday without care if you are making any progress and at the same time hoping success just going to fall into your lap.

Remember these 20 quotes on why a sense of urgency is important in business
Eyeing for more progress is always good for your business or startups.
Here are 20 quotes to remind you why sense of urgency is important:

Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

Mark Twain

Identify the important and act with a sense of urgency.

Anonymous

The trouble is you think you have time.

Buddha

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough. We must apply. Being willing is not enough. We must do.

Leonardo da Vinci

Everyone should have a sense of urgency- it is getting a lot done in a short period of time in a calm, confident manner.

Bob Proctor

A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.

John P. Kotter

Time to improve is limited. The clock is always on and doesn’t care if you don’t feel like it. Someone else does and they’re passing you by.

William James Moore

We have to live life with a sense or urgency, so not a minute is wasted.

Les Brown

Urgency means paying the details the attention they deserve, with the respect they deserve, without delay.

Richie Norton

Where there is no sense of urgency, there is usually a strong habit of procrastination.

Edmond Mbiaka

Urgency makes the difference between practitioners, proclaimers and procrastinators.

Richie Norton
Having a sense of urgency is usually related with achieving your goals.
Remember these 20 quotes on why a sense of urgency is important in business
It is better to start now rather than waiting for the ‘right time’ because the right time will never come.

Only those who dream with a sense of urgency get to wake up from their dreams.

Edmond Mbiaka

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Jim Rohn

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

H Jack Brown Jr

Sense of urgency is the impetus to winning while false sense of urgency is the pebble in the shoe.

Dr V V Rao

Success requires both urgency and patience. Be urgent about making the effort, and patient about seeing the results.

Ralph Marston

The secret of success. Stop wishing, start doing.

Anonymous.

Move fast. A sense of urgency is the one thing you can develop that will separate you from everyone else. When you get a good idea, do it now.

Brian Tracy

Whatever your goal in life, unless you develop a great urgency, what could be near will be far away.

Jaggi Vasudev

If you do not answer the noice and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.

Kevin Brady
Remember these 20 quotes on why a sense of urgency is important in business
Always plan ahead and never procrastinate.

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Remember these 20 quotes when you have copycats in your business

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Have you heard of an internet slang word called ‘stalkcat’? It refers to those who are both an internet stalker and copycat.

So a stalkcat will stalk you and whatever you are doing and then copies you. While you might know your stalkcats, you can always figure out who your copycats are, especially in business.

No matter what, you should never be worried about copycats. Don’t be scared of going big with your ideas for fear of others copying it. This is because copycats can always copy all they want but they will always be one step behind.

If you encounter copycats in your business or even arts, bear these 20 quotes to keep yourself moving:

Strong brands are not built through shortcuts and copycats.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

Anybody who is imitating somebody else, no matter who it is, is heading in the wrong direction. It is impossible to become like somebody else. Your only hope is to become more fully yourself.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

People are going to copy your product if you build great stuff. Just because Yahoo has a search box doesn’t make it Google.

Evan Spiegel

People copy people they look up to, and good products inspire copycats.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

When a company creates a blue ocean and its powerful performance consequence are known, sooner or later imitators appear on the horizon.

W. Chan Kim

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man’s.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You know you’re winning when you see you’re being copied.

Robin Sharma

Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.

Randy Bachman

The great idea is the one that is either saleable or is worthy of imitation.

Amit Kalantri

Stay true to yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.

Suzy Kassem
Remember these 20 quotes when you have copycats in your business
But here is why you should never be copycats yourself:

You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.

Jack Ma

If you copy then it is not self-expression.

Michael Schenker

As long as you’re being a copycat, you will never be the best copycat.

Eric Thomas

If you choose to be fearless, then be fearlessly authentic not an imitation of someone you envy.

Shannon L. Alder

When you are gunning to be like other people, you are foolishly repeating their mistakes, and the worst of it all is that you can’t even correct yours.

Michael Bassey Johnson

It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.

Marquis de Sade

The desired shape of your dreams is different from the supposed shape of another person’s dream. When shaping your own, you may watch the process of another person’s dreams, but keep eyes away from the destination.
-Israelmore Ayivor

Do your own thing. Others own their own thing. If you copy too much, you’ll find yourself in late night cocktail lounge cover band limbo.

Kurt Cobain

Creativity versus inspiration: inspiration makes a copy, creativity makes something completely new.

Hannah Garrison

Without authenticity, we are only a poor imitation of someone else.

Tom Hayes

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Remember these 20 quotes when you sink into mediocrity

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It does not matter if you are working a 9 to 5 job or hustling for your start-up, mediocrity is not something you should aim for.

This is because no matter what your calling is in life, strive to be the best version of yourself.

Remember these 20 quotes when you sink into mediocrity
Never settle for less in everything you do.
So the next time you find yourself slowly sinking and living a life of mediocrity, here are 20 quotes to inspire you:

“Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire for a better life. They have surrendered their fight for self-esteem and they have compromised their great potential. They have settled for a life of mediocrity, days of despair and nights of tears. They are no more than living deaths confined to cemeteries of their choice. Yet they need not remain in that state. They can be resurrected from their sorry condition. They can each perform the greatest miracle in the world. They can each come back from the dead…”

Og Mandino

“A life of mediocrity is a waste of life.”

Colleen Hoover

“Being realistic is the most common path to mediocrity.”

Will Smith

“The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity. An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people.”

Colin Powell

“Stop letting your fear condemn you to mediocrity.”

Steve Maraboli

“Don’t waste your life. No one chooses mediocrity but many settle for it. Never settle.”

Anonymous.

“If any of you have a desire to be mediocre, you will probably find that you have already achieved your ambition.”

Hugh B. Brown

“Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.”

Joseph Joubert.

“The uncertainties in life are so uncertain for us to determine the kind woe we shall be entangled in in the next future. When you stay dormant, your life is at risk; when you dare to take a step, you take a step to take a risk. We have a choice. Yes! a choice to choose to dare to get to our real reasons on earth or to choose to live in mediocrity and conformity, but, we ought to note that, it is riskier to risk nothing when the life we live is always at risk.”

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Mediocrity is always a safe option but never a satisfactory one.”

Apoorve Dubey

Reasons why you should not settle for being mediocre

Remember these 20 quotes when you sink into mediocrity
Always strive to be the best. Credits: Pexels.

“Mediocrity is comfortable, it makes you join the crowd, but would you like to be remembered as part of the crowd or someone followed by the crowd? For rising above the crowd – don’t be a slave to procedures, practice more & improvise.”

Shahenshah Hafeez Khan

“Push yourself to do more and to experience more. Harness your energy to start expanding your dreams. Yes, expand your dreams. Don’t accept a life of mediocrity when you hold such infinite potential within the fortress of your mind. Dare to tap into your greatness.”

Robin Sharma

“If a man is called a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and Earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.'”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Be not afraid of going slowly. Be afraid only of standing still.”

Chinese proverb

“In our desire to please everyone, it’s very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.”

Seth Godin

“Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.”

Oscar Wilde

“Mediocrity is the worst enemy of prosperity.”

Henry Ford

“Don’t settle for mediocrity. Take a chance. Take a risk. Find that passion. Rekindle it. Fall in love all over again. It’s really worth it.”

Brian Cranston

“Without self -discipline, potentials are useless and mediocrity becomes the plague of life.”

Clement Ogedegbe

“Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone’s work prove greater than their own – they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal – for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire…They envy achievement, and their dream of greatness is a world where all men have become their acknowledged inferiors. They don’t know that that dream is the infallible proof of mediocrity, because that sort of world is what the man of achievement would not be able to bear.”

Ayn Rand

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Remember these 20 quotes before you start your start-up

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What do Amazon, Apple, Disney, Google and Harley Davidson have in common (besides being multi-billion dollar companies)?

They all started in garages. Yes, these gigantic business started from nothing.

We are entering a new era where more people are turning to starting their own businesses or entrepreneurships instead of going for that normal 8 to 5 job.

To cater to these startups, more and more incubation hubs and co-working spaces are opening up in Malaysia.

One reserved desk can start from RM920 a month in Kuala Lumpur while the price in Kuching can range from RM150 to RM399.

While these places look good on Instagram to promote your businesses, truthfully not everyone can afford it.

Even if incubation hubs had existed in the 90s, Amazon, Apple and the rest would still to choose to start from a garage.

This is because the un-glamourous side of any start-ups is that they are always scrimping and saved for money.

Meanwhile, the media is always highlighting success stories of start-ups and honestly nobody wants to hear how a start-up failed.

Nobody wants to talk about unpaid bills or canceled insurance coverage or life without savings or basically about how difficult it is to start your own company.

So before you head over to SSM (Suruhanjaya Syarikat Malaysia) to kickstart your start-up dream, we at KajoMag want you to remember these 20 quotes:
Remember these 20 quotes before you start your start-up

“Running a start-up is like chewing glass and staring into the abyss. After awhile, you stop staring, but the glass chewing never ends.”

– Elon Musk, Founder of SpaceX.

“Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”

Guy Kawasaki, Alltop Co-Founder.

“The dream is free. The hustle is sold separately.”

Unknown.

“Whenever I meet a successful CEO, I ask them how they did it. Mediocre CEOs point to their brilliant strategic moves or their intuitive business sense or variety of other self-congratulatory explanations. The great CEOs tend to be remarkably consistent in their answers. They all say: “I didn’t quit.”

Ben Horowitz, Loudcloud Founder.

“Life of an Entrepreneur: I wake up excited and terrified every day.”

Sarah Lacy, Founder of Pando.

“Projections are just bullshit. They’re just guesses.”

Jason Fried, Founder of 37Signals.

“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

Jim Rohn.

“If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.”

Ray Kroc, McDonald’s Founder.

“Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.”

Michael Dell, Founder of Dell Technologies.
Essentially, what makes any start-up successful is not giving up. Before you start your journey, always remember not to give up when things get hard.
Remember these 20 quotes before you start your start-up
Starting a start-up is not just about having a great idea. Credits: Pexels.

“Accept that some days you are the pigeon and some days you are the statue.”

Scott Adams.

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’”

Mary Anne Radmacher.

“You gotta run more than your mouth to escape the treadmill of mediocrity. A true hustler jogs during the day and sleepwalks at night.” –

Jarod Kintz.

“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.”

John Wooden.

“You can’t have a million-dollar dream with a minimum-wage work ethic.”

Stephen C. Hogan.

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.”

Calvin Coolidge

“I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” –

Steve Jobs

“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and failing over.”

Richard Branson.

“Starting your own business is like riding a roller coaster. There are highs and lows and every turn you take is another twist. The lows are really low, but the highs can be really high. You have to be strong, keep your stomach tight, and ride along with the roller coaster that you started.”

Lindsay Manseau.

“Bad shit is coming. It is always is in a start-up. The odds of getting from launch to liquidity without some kind of disaster happening are one in a thousand. So don’t get demoralised.”

Paul Graham.

“If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.”

Mario Andretti.
Remember these 20 quotes before you start your start-up
When things get difficult especially financially, always remember to persevere.

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Remember these 20 quotes when choosing your business partners

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Choosing the right business partners sometimes can be more intimidating than choosing your life partner.

Ok, maybe not as scary as that, but it is undeniably important to choose the right business partners when starting your start-up.

There are many practical reasons why you should have business partners, one of them being that two heads are really better than one. Then, they can always contribute more input, effort, additional capital, separate set of networks to increase the higher chance of success in your business.

Statistics have shown that solo founders take 3.6 times longer to reach scale stage compared to a founding team of two and they are 2.3 times less likely to pivot.

However, you still need balanced teammates that each knows how to pull their own weight.

So before you sign up anybody like your cousin or your next-door neighbour as your business partners, here are 20 quotes to remember:
Remember these 20 quotes when choosing your business partners
A startup founded by a team has a higher chance of successing than founded by an individual. Credits: Pexels.
  1. On how partners should complement each other:

“To me, a spouse should be a life partner and a business partner. Just like any good partner, her strengths must make up for my weaknesses and vice versa.”

Robert Kiyosaki.

2. A simple way to find out if there’s too many people in your decision-making process:

“If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large.”

Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon.

3. The secret sauce to a great working partnership

“It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.”

Charles Darwin.

4. How many people does it take to make an idea work?

“You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.” –

Larry Page, Co-founder of Google.

5. Thinking about doing it alone?

“No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.”

Reid Hoffman, Co-founder of LinkedIn.

6. Always keep an eye on the big picture

“Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests.”

Stephen Kinzer.

7. Take advantage of the opportunities that present themselves

“Perfect partners don’t exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.”

Wayne Rooney.

8. Trust in the foundation you build with good partners

“For me, it’s important to build good partnerships rather than score centuries. Once, you have those partnerships, you will also get centuries.”

MS Dhoni.

9. Choose partners who bring out the best in you

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

Mark Twain.

10. Trust in your partner to go the distance

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”

African Proverb.
The most important thing about having a team is that everyone needs to be effective at teamwork. Every teammate needs to work not only collaboratively and collectively, but also effectively on an individual basis.
Remember these 20 quotes when choosing your business partners
Everybody needs to pull their own weight to make a business work. Credits: Pexels.

11. On the importance of individual roles in realizing a dream

“The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.”

James Cash Penney.

12. On the rewards of staying focused and being able to handle pressure

“Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.”

Malcolm Forbes.

13. On how each teammate has a valuable quality to bring to the table

“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”

Phil Jackson.

14. The value of commitment

“Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilisation work.”

Vince Lombardi.

15. On the strength of a collaboration between individuals

“One piece of log creates a small fire, adequate to warm you up, add just a a few more pieces to blast an immense bonfire, large enough to warm up your entire circle of friends; needless to say that individuality counts but teamwork dynamites.”

Jin Kwon.

16. Ohana – Nobody gets left behind

“Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.”

Virginia Burden.

17. The quality of your teammates, before quantity

“There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.”

Jason Fried, 37Signals Founder.

18. On how everybody’s talents and contributions can truly make a masterpiece

“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.”

H.E. Luccock.

19. On the benefits of putting your ego aside, and being interconnected

“Collaboration has no hierarchy. The sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth.”

Amit Ray.

20. It takes a village for a good idea to turn into a great one

“Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes.

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