Dan Martell Quotes

Canadian businessman (1979–)

Dan Martell is a Canadian entrepreneur, angel investor, and business coach who built and sold three software companies by age thirty before founding SaaS Academy, a coaching program for SaaS founders. He runs Martell Ventures, an AI incubator and roughly $100M holding company, and is an angel investor in more than fifty technology companies. He is the author of Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire (2023), a Wall Street Journal bestseller on hiring leverage and time-management for entrepreneurs. He lives in Kelowna, British Columbia.

the richest people I know don’t know the answers… they just know the problems worth solving.

Your team will not elevate past your skill level. You have to go first.

It's not who you know.

It's who knows you.

Your personal brand gets spoken about in rooms you're not in.

That's the most powerful sales machine you can build.

Your partner's success should feel like your success.

If it doesn't, that's a problem worth solving.

You're more than a job title.

I've reset my own career multiple times. Each restart taught me that the path is rarely straight.

What matters isn't how quickly you find your way.
What matters is that you keep going until you do.