Entrepreneur Quotes

You may be a redneck if . . . you think you are an entrepreneur because of the "Dirt for Sale" sign in the front yard.

Commercial banks are very good for certain businesses, like loans and guarding other people's money. They're not great investors or entrepreneurs.

One of the big problems entrepreneurs run into is they get too comfortable.

I believe photos is one of the underlying things in every social network that becomes successful.

There is no reason why capitalists and entrepreneurs should be ashamed of earning profits.

The better an entrepreneur succeeds, the more is he vilified and themore is he soaked by taxation.

Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.

An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.

I've been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies.

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

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

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

Without question, the notion of the doctor as a legitimate fee-for-service entrepreneur, making his fortune from misfortunes of his patients, is old-fashioned, distasteful, and doomed.

I admire many entrepreneurs. They bring energy, excitement, youthful enthusiasm. What they lack in process, they make up for in gumption.

My parents were entrepreneurs. They ran a small ad agency in upstate New York.

Im an accidental entrepreneur.

We tend to use a new technology to do an old task more efficiently. We pave the cow paths.

There is always a right moment to stop something.

As an investor-entrepreneur, I’ve always tried to be contrarian, to go against the crowd, to identify opportunities in places where people are not looking.

It sounds boring, but anything is easy to start-starting a novel, starting a business ... it's keeping the thing going that is difficult.

People who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don't.

I also know, as an entrepreneur myself, you face new obstacles every day and you need to have the perseverance to see them through.

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

If you aren’t practicing and playing to be first, then maybe you shouldn’t be an entrepreneur.

For honest insight into who you are, don't ask yourself what your priorities are for next week. Ask what your priorities were last week.

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.

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.

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

I don't want to look too far ahead. The journey is what's happening right now, not what's on the finishing line.

Emails get reactions. Phone calls start conversations.

What's the worst that could happen?

The best entrepreneurs I've ever met are all good communicators. It's perhaps one of the very few unifying factors.

Dot the i's, cross the t's, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.

Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.

Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

In America, everybody thinks they're an entrepreneur. That's the problem. It's not a title that anybody should call oneself.

We believe Skype in the Classroom will be a milestone in inspiring the next generation of social entrepreneurs and we can't wait to connect students with TOMS partners.

In order to achieve something great, you'll have to sacrifice something great.

Entrepreneurs: See yourself as victorious- and the best way to be victorious is to be passionate. Find something you love doing!

For entrepreneurs, ignorance is not bliss. It's fatal. It's costly. And it's for losers. You either get organized, or get crushed.

As an entrepreneur, don't follow the crowd; let them follow you.

No economy, no matter how bad, can hold down a goal that is followed by enough action.

For startups, SM is now crucial: it has never been cheaper and easier to reach one's customers. Entrepreneurs should thank God for Twitter, Facebook.

Amazing what people make up based on what they choose to see.

Successful entrepreneurs judge correctly the need for change, then do something about it.

In all the talk in the Principles (as opposed to the formal analysis) it is not the saving of rentiers but the energy of entrepreneurs which governs accumulation.

Any outcome, any deal that doesn't preserve the freedom and openness of the Internet for consumers and entrepreneurs will be unacceptable.

We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating.They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.

I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day.

We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.