Entrepreneur Quotes

You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done.

It's very simple: When you're working your hardest, the world opens up to you.

Learn to speak by listening.

Creative avoidance is the type of procrastination that affects home business entrepreneurs the most. It is unconsciously filling our day with trivial, unimportant work.

Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners.

The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.

The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better.

Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic.

An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.

Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.

Lend your friend $20. If he doesn't pay you back then he's not your friend. Money well spent.

If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.

I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?

The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.

The world must become aware of the fantastic transformational power of social entrepreneurship and the Foundation will work as a catalyst in this effort.

No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball; he will crash. That’s why they call it rewriting.

I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.

A lot of entrepreneurs let ego get in the way. You've got to be the conductor. You can't play all the instruments yourself. You have to get others to work together.

My counsel to entrepreneurs is to 'own' a region, 'own' a market, 'own' a segment. Create something you can defend. Don't get hung up on the idea that you have to go national.

My father, one of the great entrepreneurs and philanthropists of this state, taught me that capital - monetary or political - is to be used to benefit others. I intend to continue that tradition.

The idea of becoming an entrepreneur is something that is not taught very well in school and is something that people should try to do earlier on.

There are no bad business and investment opportunities, but there are bad entrepreneurs and investors.

The idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges.

A social entrepreneur is somebody who knows how to make an idea reality.

Microloans enable the poor to lift themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneurs are the seekers of solutions, and that they will go into these places where both market and traditional aid has failed or traditional charity has failed.

A great part of this life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.

I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.

We are the leaders that we have been waiting for. We are the social innovators and entrepreneurs that we have been seeking.

You know, as most entrepreneurs do, that a company is only as good as its people. The hard part is actually building the team that will embody your company culture and propel you forward.

An entrepreneur needs to have values. Values that are wholesome.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility.

Embrace what you don't know

You're generally better off sticking with what you know.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

LEARN FROM FAILURE. If you are an entrepreneur and your first venture wasn't a success, welcome to the club.

The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor.

Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing.

Your biggest challenge as an entrepreneur is not concealing your idea from others or keeping your idea a secret, it is actually convincing people that you're not crazy and that you can pull this off.

I'll be right here in my spot wit a lil more cash than I already got trippin off you cause you had your shot

Dig your well before you're thirsty.

People are recognizing that I am an entrepreneur and do more than be on a reality TV show.

I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.

All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.

To some extent, being an entrepreneur is a lonely journey.

I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.

The problem you ultimately want to have, as an entrepreneur, is deciding who to help, not deciding who can help you.