Max McKeown Quotes

I think motivation and drive, coupled with raw talent, help make founders successful.

Creativity is incredibly important, but drive is equally so.

I think when there's enough will and aggression, there's no shortage of talent either.

I'm a hustler. I'm the Boss.

You combine hard work, creativity, and self-determination, and things start to happen.

Anyone can be an entrepreneur. All it takes is a little drive and ambition.

I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero.

Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

It is the creative and enterprising spirit of people that is indispensable. Everything else is supplemental.

The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.

It's a fire, it's a passion to get out and to create and to innovate. And that I've always enjoyed and I've always been very proud of is that the people I've done business with, the people around me have always made money.

Being an entrepreneur is my dream job, as it tests ones tenacity.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.

I think the most important trait for an entrepreneur is persistence. When you try to do something new and difficult, you are more likely to fail than to succeed.

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.

I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success.

There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.

What people can excel our Northern and New England brethren in skill, invention, activity, energy, perseverance, and enterprise?

I think in every industry you need to have a lot of talent; you need to have a lot of drive, but you need a little bit of luck.

I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. I've hired many people at very strange places.

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.