Entrepreneur Quotes

I'm a writer. I could not or would not ever run a business. I don't even have a secretary. And contrary to some of the stereotypes, entrepreneurs are not loners. I am.

It's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window.

When things are at their worst, I find something always happens.

It doesn't matter whether the Dow is 5000 or 50,000. If you're an entrepreneur, there is no bad time to start a company.

I was trying to be an entrepreneur at seven years old.

To never forget that the most important thing in life is the quality of life we lead.

I don't think that ambition should not be in the dictionary of entrepreneurs. But our ambition should be realistic. You have to realise that you can't do everything.

A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can't.

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.

Society can't wait. It's sad there are so many entrepreneurs, business successes and venture capitalists who give no thought to society.

Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts.

I find that many entrepreneurs are trying to do everything when it would be cheaper and more time-efficient to delegate, even if there are monetary costs associated with that.

I treat business a bit like a computer game. I count money as points. I'm doing really well: making lots of money and lots of points.

Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Without entrepreneurs, economies become poor and weak. The old will not exist, the new can't enter

Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.

A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.

Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the content is controlled by everyone and no one at the same time.

There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur

The reason why I spend so much money for my journals is to press me to find something valuable to put in them.

Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.

I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.

My father always said working for somebody else never amounted to anything. You have to be an entrepreneur

As an entrepreneur, you have to be OK with failure. If you're not failing, you're likely not pushing yourself hard enough.

Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)

Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.

We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition.

What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?

Any successful entrepreneur knows that time is more valuable than money itself.

Not only CAN anyone be an entrepreneur, but they MUST be.

Every individual is essentially now a small business and entrepreneur.

I would say raising capital is one of the weakest things for most entrepreneurs.

Real entrepreneurs do what they say they're going to do, wannabes ask about it and have tons and tons of coffee meetings.

Nobody does just one thing. But the real difference between being an entrepreneur and everyone else in the world is the ability to monetize. I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold.

There are a lot of people building small ideas now. There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.

The problem with the French is that they have no word for entrepreneur.

A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake.

Anything that is measured and watched, improves.

I'm a firm believer in shades of gray.

It seems to me to be important to distinguish a good idea from poor implementations of it

We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only problems

The only reason you should be an entrepreneur is because that's the only way the idea will come into the world.

It's easy to say that entrepreneurs will create jobs and big companies will create unemployment, but this is simplistic. The real question is who will innovate.

An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.

Surrounding yourself with creative, imaginative people is a good strategy for success whether you're an entrepreneur seeking innovation or an artist looking for inspiration.

If you don't have jobs, it's hard to have other things like health and education.

A true measure of an entrepreneur / successful-person is how they deal with adversity.

Most people ignore opportunities because they see only danger. Entrepreneurs ignore danger because they see only opportunities.

An entrepreneur is someone who, almost artistically, designs a living entity which embodies the values, beliefs, and ambitions of the creator

Too many start up business fail simply because their owners continue to think and act like employees.