“My experience in repeated pitching taught me the importance of practice and arranging the ingredients, the pieces of your presentation, carefully. The order in which you mention details is key to the audience to which you are pitching.”

“While you can and should get a formal education, it is good practice to continue to learn on your own. I could not initially take the traditional route due to my situation.”

“A business without sales is a dying business unless you have enough money to keep going. Focus on the sales. Stop worrying about the big picture.”

“Relationships change, such as when an owner-to-owner relationship becomes an owner-to-staff relationship. The same is true on the other side of the equation” -Faris Alami

“Dig deep and ask yourself: What does an overnight success look like?”-Faris Alami

“The minute we start looking at others and comparing/judging ourselves against them, we become victims of the misconceptions of success.” -Faris Alami

“The key from this discussion is to understand that good questions coupled with experience can help us create new opportunities.” -Faris Alami

“There’s always a better moment to share a story. Part of it could be your stage of personal, professional, or community growth.”

“Getting to know your competitors allows you to expand your network as well as enhance your everyday work.”

“Setting short-term goals on an hourly or daily basis can also be vital in the journey. As entrepreneurs or leaders, we are interrupted on a daily basis, and sometimes, at the end of the day, we feel we’ve not accomplished anything.”

“There is no right or wrong in how you define entrepreneurship. I’ve flown a million miles and heard a million definitions! I like to challenge all of these conceptions and take us to the very basis of entrepreneurship.”

“Mistakes will happen. The best we can hope is that when the do, we learn from them.”