21 Quotes by M.J. DeMarco

Value your time poorly and you will be poor. When time is wasted as a lifestyle choice you will be stranded in places you don't want to be.Take a look around. How do your friends, family, and peers value their time? Are they standing in line to save four bucks? Are they driving 40 minutes to save 10 dollars? Are they parked on the sofa anxiously waiting to see who wins Dancing With the Stars?

The problem with being a hitchhiker is you really never know the driver. The driver could be ethical, moral, and just, or the driver could be corrupt and evil. Either way, as a hitchhiker you waive all power to your driver. He who owns the keys owns the power.Yet millions of people submit to this type of organizational control without pause. They sign franchise agreements, giving control over crucial business decisions, including marketing, ads, and royalties.

Your choices are made in a moment, and yet their consequences transcend a lifetime.

People care about what your business can do for them. How will it help them? What’s in it for them? Will it solve their problem? Make their life easier? Provide.

There’s a profound difference between interest and commitment. Interest reads a book; commitment applies the book 50 times.

I awoke to the epiphany that I was the driver of my life and my problems were the consequences of my choices.

Stop thinking about business in terms of your selfish desires, whether it’s money, dreams or “do what you love.” Instead, chase needs, problems, pain points, service deficiencies, and emotions.

The owner of an idea is not he who imagines it, but he who executes it.

Change creates millionaires. Those who observe and take advantage of change will be the new millionaires and billionaires.