Top 20 FDE Conference Quotes
While our annual conference looked a little different this year, we were blessed to have guests from around the world share their insight and encouragement with faith driven entrepreneurs at every stage of life. We were challenged and empowered to think deeper about a range of entrepreneurship-related topics ranging from heart posture to purpose to measuring returns. Here are some of our top lessons and challenges from this year’s conference:
Mark Sears
“As faith-based entrepreneurs, we have a different destination and a different definition of success on the journey and a different strategy for how we’re going to get there.”
Pete Ochs
“Is your purpose for being in business to maximize financial value or to be a catalyst for flourishing?”
Andy Crouch
“Authority is any time that you have capacity for meaningful action.”
Jay Jakub
“The purpose of business is not to create profit. The purpose of business is to create profitable solutions to the problems of people on the planet, not to profit by creating problems for people on the planet.”
Andy Mills
“When we’re deeply abiding in Christ, we have the ability to stand up, to address things going on in the world, to have an impact on the world, to be Christians who are salt and light, the way we are called to be.”
David Morken
“Excellence for the sake of excellence can really be a dangerous objective.”
Lecrae
“When you’re performing for acceptance, that’s not faith. Faith is when you can be honest and transparent and say, ‘God, I don’t have what it takes. I need you to do it because I don’t have what it takes.”
Trae Stephens
“If God has called us into His redemption project, but hasn’t told us the specifics of the timing, then we must work earnestly with the belief that what we do will not be useless.”
Pete Ochs
“Desperate people do desperate things and one of the most desperate things we do is innovate.”
Casey Crawford
“You better have faith because you’re in for a fight.”
Mark Sears
“Even more dangerous than sirens and temptations in the water is simply the natural current that pulls almost every business toward the worldly destination of maximizing the bottom line and shareholder value.”
Ron Blue
“We have an opportunity to speak to the wealthiest culture that has ever existed and say, ‘God’s Word works under all circumstances, for everybody, for all time.’”
Efosa Ojomo
“You don’t fix poverty by trying to fix poverty. Instead, you fix poverty by creating prosperity.”
Brian Fikkert
“The good life is when we use our bodies, our souls, our relationships…to fulfill our callings as priests and kings.”
Jessica Kim
“WE are missing out on a lot of amazing opportunities to build incredible, redemptive ventures because of this posturing in the beginning.”
Jeff Haanen
“Emphasize the Fall with the powerful and Creation with the vulnerable.”
Pete Ochs
“The greatest change was our mindset. We didn’t focus on what we didn’t have, we focused on what we did have.”
Trae Stephens
“If you can answer complicated questions about your business model but not about why you believe what you believe about eternity, you might have some work on your priorities to do.”
Vic Ho
“When I am feeling anxiety or stress over some outcome, I really am putting myself in a preposterous, hubris-driven situation.”
Reuben Coulter
“How can we respond to the challenges of our world, share the gospel, and see God’s kingdom advance in our generation?”