Great solopreneur quotes

"One of my favorite negotiation tactics is asking 'what needs to be true for this to happen?'" Dan Martell, on the Solopreneur Hour

"I hated cold calling. I hated walking into a scuba shop and nervously asking for the owner. I hated getting rejected. But I couldn't hide behind a screen and work on strategy. I had to sell." CJ Gustafson

"For the thing you are building, be the only one of that thing - niche down so much that it hurts" Nick Loper, Side Hustle Show podcast

"If you only define success with lofty expectations, most of you will be stunning failures. If you define success as putting a product out there and getting people to buy it, that's the difference between people who walk the earth happy and those who are constantly unfulfilled because they never define the finish line." John Mayer, paraphrased for entrepreneurs

"Funded startups die when they run out of money; bootstrapped startups die when the founder runs of of motivation" Rob Walling, Start Small, Stay Small

"I felt like I was watching of movie [of my life]. And then I realised I am the director; if I don’t like how it is going I have the power to change it." Sam Parr, My First Million

"Don’t start. It’s too saturated. It was 10 years ago and it is today. Tens of thousands of people haven’t made millions of dollars in the same markets. Don’t start it’s just not worth the risk. Go back to doing the non-risky thing you were doing." Dan Koe

"Every spreadsheet is a startup waiting to be built" Arvid Kahl, (via others I'm sure as I've heard it a few times!) Intellectual Software Podcast

"Success is the thing that brings me joy, not necessarily the specific thing I’m working on." Suli Ali, My First Million