Entrepreneur Quotes

My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.

Is it more fascinating, perplexing, unbelievable that women are entrepreneurs?

Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you - as entrepreneurs do.

I actually think we need to put our energies, as entrepreneurs, as technology inventors, as government, to being much more inclusive. I think the key thing is actually working together.

All human beings are entrepreneurs.

If you're looking to become an entrepreneur then don't waste your time going to university or business school - just get on and do it.

Bakers bake bread, accountants manage accounts and entrepreneurs turn ideas into reality.

I think a lot of becoming an entrepreneur is something which people have to learn just from getting out there and giving it a go, and having to learn the art of survival.

People do not mind people who try things and fail. If you're a good entrepreneur, you're not going to succeed in every single thing you try. You've got to try to succeed at more things than fail.

I was never, ever interested in becoming a businessman or an entrepreneur. If I was a businessman, or saw myself as a businessman, I would have never gone into the airline business.

The entrepreneurs who succeed usually want to make a difference to people’s lives, not just their own bank balances.

If you don't take risks you won't achieve anything.

The most important thing for entrepreneurs is not to be put off by failure.

Learn to raise capital by any means necessary. That's your primary job as an entrepreneur. You must continually raise capital from family and friends, banks, suppliers, customers and investors.

I had no plans to be an entrepreneur. I just wanted to be a journalist and write for a magazine. At 15, I just decided to leave school and launch a national student magazine.

Most entrepreneurs will admit luck plays a part in success.

Most entrepreneurs are not doing it for financial motives in the first place. They're just people who love creating.

I've had many challenges - every entrepreneur does - it's the nature of the beast.

I'm a big believer in being an entrepreneur. It's easy for me to say because I work for myself and I am someone who likes that process. You have control over your destiny.

A community that learns together excels together. We need to form communities that learn together.

I never said I enjoy anything about using the Internet. I enjoy helping the entrepreneurs who are building this thing that I don't necessarily like or use.

Entrepreneurs need to be positive. Always. Entrepreneurs need to be brave, often. And lastly, entrepreneurs need to be obsessed.

Rich Christiansen is one of the most insightful, practical and cost-conscious entrepreneurs in the world today. Listen to Rich. He won't steer you wrong.

The journey from employee to entrepreneur was a complex and taxing one for an immigrant like me.

The sad truth is as difficult as the first mile can be for entrepreneurs, it is doubly tough inside most large companies as innovators can face some significant headwinds.

Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.

Plans are great, but missions are better.

When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?

We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose.

You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome.

I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.

All artists are entrepreneurs. All entrepreneurs are artists.

More process, less innovation. More operations, less innovation. More management, less innovation. More entrepreneurs, more innovation.

Most of the time, creative entrepreneurs lose interest long before their marketing message loses its power.

For tolls too briefly the sounds of mercy... In fear we ponder the use of thunder for peace

The government does not and cannot create jobs. Only entrepreneurs do.

The new is threatening to those who have mastered the old.

I was a nobody when I met with the publisher. Nobody knew who I was. I was doing some speaking for entrepreneurs. I did little groups. I had no following.

It takes a special kind of stubbornness to succeed as an entrepreneur

Keeping the mind open to new ideas, not being too anxious about success, putting 100% effort and meditation is the formula for entrepreneurs.

I think that my original drive as an entrepreneur was precisely that desire to get away from the image of the shipping magnate's son.

Cancer is the emergent property of the accumulated errors in an ordered system. It's the consequences of random events.

I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all enterprises. Labors of love count.

Because we weren't having success finding a CEO, our investors insisted that we hire these managers a temporary CEO and CFO. That didn't go great.

Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.

Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.

Remember: You are the only human being in the world who can help this particular customer at this particular moment in time.

Big businesses can help by engaging aspiring entrepreneurs and promoting initiatives which support small businesses from within.

Beethoven and Michelangelo, who sold their artworks for profit, were entrepreneurs and capitalists.

I'm not calling for redistributing wealth; I'm calling for reinvigorating our stuck energy sector, so some new entrepreneurs can create some new wealth.