Entrepreneur Quotes

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

The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.

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

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

As an entrepreneur, if you're the originator, you need to be faster than ever.

Any man who's not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.

When I talk to entrepreneurs today, I feel like the grandfather who was in the Civil War.

At a certain point in your career - I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one.

The harder I worked, the luckier I got.

That's how we're going to stay innovative. We're going to continue to attract entrepreneurs who say, 'I found an idea, and I can go to Google and have a demo in a month and be launched in six.'

I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it's one. Every year of his life Zuckerberg has been making $1 billion for investors.

I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job.

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.

Remember to be awesome.

Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.

I never thought of myself as an entrepreneur before I started this. I just like to build things.

If you make the Internet, live on the internet.

Entrepreneurs are visionaries - they see things other people don't see.

We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across.

Being an entrepreneur is not about being in love with an idea, it's about being in love with running a company.

Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time.

My job involves a lot of different skills now - I'm as much entrepreneur and management consultant as anything else these days - but IA is still my favorite part of the work I do.

Every shot should be a knockout shot.

The entrepreneurs that really make it are the ones that start with an idea but are ready to change it at a moment's notice.

If you want to be an entrepreneur, fail as fast as you can. The longer you go without that experience, the more afraid you will be of it, and then you will never do it!

Whether I retire to bed early or late, I rise with the sun.

We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.

As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.

I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny.

Don't take too much advice.

Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur.

There's a lot of pressure to look like the last company that was successful.

Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.

Give me an entrepreneur with a lot of courage, gusto and who iterates rapidly, and I will back that person day in and day out.

There isn't an entrepreneur or a scientific pioneer who hasn't had failures. And if we don't rear children who are comfortable taking risks, we won't have successes.

You will be a great entrepreneur if you operate with a real sincere wanting to serve.

Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality.

Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors.

Free basic internet access should be like dialing 911 in the US or 100 in India.

I get a lot of emails from entrepreneurs. The best ones are short, to the point and include some question and/or the product

As an entrepreneur, you love your business like a child, and you're taught to be laser-focused on the business.

Persistence, persistence, persistence. I'm surprised how few entrepreneurs follow up.

Entrepreneurs need to listen. They don't need to be good listeners (although it can only help) but they need to know when to listen.

I usually tell people that everything I learned about being an entrepreneur I learned by f'ing up at my first company.

There is always a right moment to stop something.

The economy is not the problem, how people respond is the problem!

People ask, 'Are entrepreneurs born, or are they made?' I think it's a combination of both.

Sing your song; don't let the bastards get you down.

The more entrepreneurs in the world that are getting their ideas financed, the more great companies there are going to be that we can all invest in.