Best 1380 quotes in «entrepreneur quotes» category

As entrepreneurs, we must constantly dream and have the conviction and obsession to transform our dreams into reality - to create a future that never existed before.

A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.

As you step out of college, you will be spending the rest of your life in a world of accelerated disruption.

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.

A true business opportunity is the that an entrepreneur invents to grow him or herself. Not to work in, but to work on.

At SGI board meetings... Jim Clark's face would get red and he'd start shouting that an investor and board member had cheated him and his engineers.

AT&T invented the cellular telephone, but saw no future in it. It takes entrepreneurs, who are angels of destruction, to take advantage of things which the inventor cannot or does not see.

Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and association.

A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

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

Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term.

Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.

Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing.

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

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

As entrepreneurs, we must continue to ask ourselves 'What's next?' It takes humility to realize that we don't know everything, not to rest on our laurels and know that we must keep learning and observing.

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

Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.

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

Be happy. It really annoys negative people.

Being an entrepreneur and starting new companies require a lot of sacrifice. Sacrifice that you have to make. Because in order to be really successful, your company becomes your life. And then you have to really dedicate your time and energy fully to this endeavor that you start.

Being an entrepreneur is simply going from one mistake to the next. You must have the fortitude to continue on.

Being an entrepreneur does require a lot of sacrifice of your personal time and personal hobbies and things that you enjoy. At least for the period of high growth that you experience at the beginning of a company's life cycle, you have to be ready to make a lot of time sacrifices and personal sacrifice.

Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing.

Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.

Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps.

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

Being an entrepreneur isn't really about starting a business. It's a way of looking at the world: seeing opportunity where others see obstacles, taking risks when others take refuge.

Being an entrepreneur means that you are sort of inventing something new. You're giving birth to a company. You're giving birth to a new product, a new service. And that's always exciting.

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.

Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success.

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

Body piercing and baggy clothes express identity among black youth, and not just beginning with hip-hop culture. Moreover, young black entrepreneurs like Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs and Russell Simmons have made millions from their clothing lines.

Branding jails corporate America but honesty sets entrepreneurs free.

Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur. Doing things differently and solving problems with new, innovative and fresh approaches are the very reason many start-ups are able to compete and sometimes outpace the established market leaders.

Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur.

Build pockets of stillness into your life.

By going from the bottom-up again, we see where successes work, and you can also see where the status quo can be the biggest obstacle or roadblock to success. The kind of entrepreneurs in whom we need to invest are the kind who are willing to fight that status quo, bureaucracy, complacency, and corruption.

By simply capitalizing on core strengths and knowledge, companies and entrepreneurs can engage in an emerging business model that will enable them to create - and demonstrate - real, sustainable social impact in society.

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

Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past.

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Central planning didn't work for Stalin or Mao, and it won't work for an entrepreneur either.

Certainly not a party of the workers and the peasants. In fact, Jiang Zemin in recent weeks has officially said that capitalists and the entrepreneurs should be enrolled in the Communist Party.

Change and everything will change for you.

China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them.

Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners.

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

Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.