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Business inspiration

By Becky McCray

More entrepreneurial and business thoughts from my smart Twitter network. Today, inspiration and laughs.

susanreynolds Lou Holtz’ pep talk on ESPN for Nebraska: “ask yourself after every play: what’s important now?” Scrawling on post-it to stick on my laptop

Pistachio Confidence isn’t in knowing you’re right… It’s not being afraid to be wrong. (um, and to learn from the mistakes, of course)

ThomAllen so much for that business idea… next!

jnswanson ya know, i think it’s time to go home. so i can come back. so i can go home. so i can…help change lives and the future. Just like you.

badbanana Simplify, simplify, simplify.

chrisbrogan If you don’t ask, you will never get.

Pistachio the more vitrioloc your detractors, the better the chance you are doing something important.

joshhinds Keep this in mind… It’s your life, LIVE BIG! — have a great one today :-)

Akula A manager’s job is to exact revenge during the annual review. :-)

newmediajim participation IS marketing

badbanana My brain says stop. My to-do list says don’t even think about it.

newmediajim as i drive to work it occurs to me that my day job is really interfering with my plans for WORLD MEDIA DOMINATION LOL!

jnswanson even when you don’t work 9-5, some days it’s okay to leave at 5.

AnnOhio “The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.” — Ben Stein

susanreynolds Started a business in my basement w/ my 11 YO as first employee. Grew to 2 locations using only free guerilla marketing

Pistachio enjoy life as an entertaining movie w/ lots of interesting plot twists (not a) pitched battle between everything I like & …don’t like.

misc i think i’m a better editor than i am a writer, whatever that means.

ThomAllen Sitting here with a blank sheet of paper, anythings possible

Pistachio “We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.” – Pogo (found in Breszny’s weekly horoscopes newsletter)

robcallahan Sure there’s more than 1 way to skin a cat, but those other ways are very messy & you’ll be cleaning up for ages. Stick to the tried & true.

vaspers Some clients want you to read their mind and give them what they really want, without them having to explain it to you.

thisisjustin Someone just pitched me on the concept that they do what we do but better so would I mind sending them my clients. That was rich!

cc_chapman Check off one thing. Add three more. So goes my 2 Do List

davidfinch I have to much to read, listen to, write, plan, organize etc… One step at a time, one step at a time…

alenardson inch by inch today people, inch by inch.

badbanana Conceiving big ideas is easy. It’s the birthing process that gets painful and messy.

chrisbrogan Fear of failure is a lot like fear of getting shot. Hard to move forward if you don’t find a stronger motivation to proceed.

sofatoye Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn’t work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach. – Roger Von Oech

chrisbrogan The future doesn’t happen by committee.

vaspers CNN Googled apple orchard, found my client’s site, will now be in Peoria IL with Sonjay Gupta story. http://www.appleblossomfarm.com/

Merlene I’ve become more thoughtful of late about supporting local small biz rather than big corporations. Grocery, deli, hardware, etc.

BeckyMcCray Free analogy for web2.0 biz articles: In the 1920’s Indiana produced 150 different car brands – http://urltea.com/1bgi

rexhammock I’ve had several people ask me to define Spam 3.0. It’s any sentence that starts out, “I’ve had several people ask me…”

cc_chapman it is ALL about teamwork. everything is when you boil it down

badbanana The problem with breakthrough ideas? You get through to the other side of the wall and you’re all alone and a little afraid.

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Becky started Small Biz Survival in 2006 to share rural business and community building stories and ideas with other small town business people. She and her husband have a small cattle ranch and are lifelong entrepreneurs. Becky is an international speaker on small business and rural topics.
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