Entrepreneur Quotes

Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen.

People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs.

The Church is a mother, not an entrepreneur.

In times of recession there are massive opportunities and fortunes to be made, so for new up and coming entrepreneurs, this is the time to go and start a business.

A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them.

Entrepreneurs, because they need money, they are willing to share their crystal ball with someone like me. That's the best thing ever.

Any time we would talk to another VC, our investors would talk him out of it: 'This is not a good company'... So we were really stuck with our existing investors for the next round.

That’s why people who seek out group flow often join startups or work for themselves. Serial entrepreneurs keep starting new business as much for the flow experience, as for the additional success.

OLD: Be No.1 or No.2 in Your Market. NEW: Find a Niche, Create Something New.

Excuses are useless. Results are priceless.

to be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running

But while my inner voice was clearly telling me I was at my core an entrepreneur, it's inconvenient to decide at twenty-three that you can't really work for other people.

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey.

Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure

Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.

Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.

The customer is always right...even when they're wrong.

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.

The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.

You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at.

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't.

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen.

You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?

When you fail, embrace it. Bleed. Get hurt. Lose your religion. That's the only way you will do amazing things.

Working together is a way of knowing each other better.

Every venture capitalist says at some point, 'I wish I could run this company myself' -- to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor.

We can, after all, learn much from lessons we did not sign up for.

I think it's just fear of death. I can't bear to go to sleep. There's very little, you know, between an entrepreneur and a crazy person.

Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.

I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.

Becoming an entrepreneur was the furthest thing from my mind. I actually had an identity crisis when I realized I had become one.

Being an entrepreneur does require commitment. It is hard work, but it is also highly rewarding. So when you can look back and see yourself building a successful company.

In terms of formal education, I may somewhat lacking. I never finished school. I am a self-taught entrepreneur, that's the best kind there is, trust me

The people here are amazing - the young people here are amazing. The entrepreneurs here are incredible.

If you want to be a real entrepreneur you have to be the cause, you have to be the creator of someone else's new realty. Which eliminates time, space, motion, and friction.

The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have - great universities. We have entrepreneurs.

I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.