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" Business is a sprint until you find an opportunity, then it's the patience of a marathon runner. "
Business
Patience
You
" I balance my meals. I have never been a big dessert guy. "
Balance
Never
Dessert
" I came from a communist country where there are no luxury cars. "
Came
Where
Luxury
" I don't think anybody ever started a great business because they wanted to make a little more cash. They had a dream. They wanted to better their life. "
Think
Business
Dream
" I don't think anyone wakes up and says, 'I want my life to suck today.' "
Up
Life
Today
" If you are under the illusion that you can start a business and run it at your life's schedule, you are mistaken. The business is like a starving puppy - when it needs to eat, then it needs to eat regardless of what you have going on personally. "
Illusion
Life
Run
" I have my mother's hips. The minute I eat it, it ends up on my hips. "
Mother
Ends
Hips
" I just don't sleep enough. But I have never met someone very successful who, at the end of their life, says 'I wish I slept more.' "
Life
Wish
More
" I'm really inspired to build a billion-dollar company. The hardest part is building the vehicle to get you there. "
Building
Build
Company
" I never dreamed I could build a $100 million company. I just happened to build a $1 million company that became a $5 million company, and so on. "
Company
Just
Never
" I own a Ferrari race team, and we race all over North America. "
Race
Team
America
" It is human nature, especially as we get older, to look for stability in our lives. But if you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you have to fight against that somewhat, as starting a business requires movement. You cannot stay still. "
Business
Nature
Human Nature
" I try to get in one, one-hour spinning class per week. "
Spinning
Per
Get
" I was one of those guys who never wanted to start their own business. I never saw myself as a leader. I saw myself as a great No. 2. "
Leader
Start
Business
" I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else. "
Poor
Dirt
Farm
" Just like any business is a living, breathing thing, an entrepreneur has to be able to adapt over time. "
Time
Entrepreneur
Living
" Long before I had money, my passion for cars was there. "
Money
Had
Passion
" Oh, I'm all about small business. I think what we've learned from big business and big Wall Street is that unchecked greed and the creation of false value gets us all in trouble. If we look at the American economy, who's really creating value? It's the small businesses. "
American
Value
Think
" Older cars tend to drive like older cars. That is not for me. "
Like
Drive
Car
" People ask, 'Are entrepreneurs born, or are they made?' I think it's a combination of both. "
People
Think
Made
" Some people will lie to you because they mean to. Others will do it to tell you what you want to hear. "
Lie
Want
Some People
" The idea of getting a lifetime job, and making $100,000 a year, with benefits, is dead and gone. It's over. And it may never come again. That's a very scary thought for a lot of people. "
People
Scary
Thought
" What is great about entrepreneurship is that entrepreneurs create the tangible from the intangible. "
About
Great
Create
" When I sold my first business, I wanted to do something nice for my dad. I wanted to give my parents a bunch of money, but they wouldn't take anything from me. They were so happy for me; they felt they didn't need money. "
Business
Me
Happy
" When I was a waiter, I wanted to be the best waiter I could be and worked to be better at it every day. "
Best
Better
Day
" You can never be satisfied as an entrepreneur, and the basis of any successful, growing business is new clients. "
You
Entrepreneur
Business
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