Rebecca Kelley:

You think you’re entitled to succeed. Ah, the ol’ entitlement complex. It doesn’t matter if you have a good idea — if you don’t see it to fruition and work hard to make that idea a reality, it’s not going to magically appear by itself. Nobody owes you anything, so suck up your pride and hunker down to get some work done. Respect is earned, sonny boy, and you’re not going to get any if all you do is sit around and expect success without getting off your ass and making it happen.

– From 9 Reasons Why Your Online Business Will Fail

note:  Really this whole post would be great to quote.  If you have a minute take the time to read it.

Jeremy Schoemaker (ShoeMoney):

I always have a good laugh at the “whitehat” SEO’s making headlines on Sphinn about best practices in Google to do X. Most are Matt Cutts kiss asses that have never built a successful website let alone business. They talk about patents and theories but very few have any real world experience.

– From Google Gives in To John Chow; Proves Ends Justify The Means