Always deliver more than expected.

The harder I worked, the luckier I got.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

I'm not afraid of dying I'm afraid of not trying

It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.

You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you.

You don't need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.

Young entrepreneurs will make a difference in the Indian ecosystem.

Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out.

If you start with nothing and end up with nothing, there's nothing lost.

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

Young entrepreneurs should spend an awful lot of time thinking about what they want to go into.

It is important for young entrepreneurs to be adequately self-aware to know what they do not know.

Every single person I know who is successful at what they do is successful because they love doing it.

I would say to young entrepreneurs and budding philanthropists - are you giving to feel good or do good?

When I was starting out, being a young entrepreneur was not fashionable. Parents would ask, 'When are you going to get a real job?'

If you just work on stuff that you like and you're passionate about, you don't have to have a master plan with how things will play out.

One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you.

Mark Zuckerberg will be a hero to many young entrepreneurs 20 years from now. Bill Gates will be a hero to others, and they will look to those [people] like I read books when I was in my teens about Rockefeller or Carnegie.

All in all, the internet is a force for good, providing young entrepreneurs with access to an incredible wealth of information, has changed the way we see the world and is also a great source of innovation and entrepreneurial opportunities.

I think that Vancouver as well as Canada needs a boot camp for young entrepreneurs. We have already seen tens if not hundreds of people put their names forward to be involved in the program, and we just think this is an amazing way to accelerate what theyre doing.

The most challenging thing for a young entrepreneur is to think long-term. When you are 22 years old, it’s hard to think in 22-year increments since that’s as long as you’ve been alive. But it’s really important to view your life as an entrepreneur as a long journey that consists of many short-term cycles.

What I would say to young entrepreneurs is there's so many moments in your life where you have these dreams, and people are trying to protect you, and they say, perhaps, friends, family, parents sometimes, they don't agree with it, they think, 'This is just too high of a hurdle.' And I don't agree with that.

I tell young entrepreneurs to use the leader in their industry as a benchmark as they work to create their own brand. Dont look at what your competition is doing - if you emulate the leader in your industry, you will achieve a higher level of engagement with consumers and make their buying experience richer.

It's important to at least break through many of the conventional approaches. I'm not sure my way is better. I will say it's a new alternative, at least. I think my personal contribution over the last 25 years has really been to give a lot of young entrepreneurs a lot of hope: Acer can, they can. Stan can, they can.

For sure I see so much in Sudan that is wonderful, normal life - young entrepreneurs starting up NGO projects, kids mucking around and being kids. Everything else that happens in normal life in any part of the world, and we never get that in our media coverage. We only talk about Sudan once it's in crisis, so we end up with a distorted sense of what daily life is like for a lot of people.

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