Quotes That Don’t Fit

I am a collector of quotes. I have them taped all around my desk, I even created a website where one of the features is that you can sign up to receive a Quote of the Day from my collection. While I often don’t connect with a particular quote, it isn’t very often I run across a quote that makes me stop and think - No Way! Here’s one such quote:

Robert L. Schwartz says “The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer… He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.“

Has this been your experience? It sure isn’t mine. I have started several different ventures over the years, and while I might have thought I knew how it was going to go, I soon discovered that there was so much that I didn’t know that I thought I knew that….well…the journey is always a series of lessons on its own.

To me an entrepreneur needs to go with the flow, make decisions on the fly, and use her experiences and expertise to make the best decision that can be made with the information at the time. To me making a bad decision is better than making no decision, and no decision actually IS a decision. Things can always be changed as you go, but to me any movement is better than standing still. I am an agent of change, and it doesn’t frighten me. Quite the contrary, I revel in it!

So what do you think? Did you know how it was all going to work, step by step, before you started your last adventure? I did not, but I still enjoy the ride!