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New directions in science are launched by new tools much more often than by new concepts. The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things that have to be explained.

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.

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

Nobody wants to proclaim, 'I changed the world with my inferior products.'

Nobody who bought a drill actually wanted a drill. They wanted a hole. Therefore, if you want to sell drills, you should advertise information about making holes – NOT information about drills!

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

No hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me.

No matter what we've done or where we've been, every single one of us can change.

No matter how deep a study you make. What you really have to rely on is your own intuition and when it comes down to it, you really don't know what's going to happen until you do it.

No one wants advice - only corroboration.

No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball; he will crash. That’s why they call it rewriting.

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.

Nothing turns off an investor more than when an entrepreneur comes in with a ridiculous valuation.

Not to let anyone convince you that your dream, your vision to be an entrepreneur is something that you shouldn't do. What often happens is that people who are well meaning, who really care for us are afraid for us and talk us out of it.

Now, in economic crises times, the kind of things you're looking at is it's generally harder to get capital, revenue growth may be more, revenue lines may be unstable or growth may be less easy to predict that you're going to get to. And so what you do is you take a certain conservative approach of when, as all entrepreneurs should do, you plan for both good luck and bad luck, you put extra time on, "Okay, if I have bad luck, what do I do about that?

Often, the more money you make the more money you spend; that's why more money doesn't make you rich - assets make you rich.

Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.

Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.

Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.

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

On a personal side, I found Bo Burlingham's Small Giants to be a great window into how business can be an extension of social change and the critical role the entrepreneur plays in creating progress in society.

Once you know what you want and what is important for you to achieve, also define the values associated with it. What is important? That is something a lot of entrepreneurs pass by too quickly. For us, the things that were important were, No. 1, customer success. Nothing is more important to us than making sure every customer is successful in our service.

One of the biggest hurdles in the path of entrepreneurship is home loans!

One has to make a decision when a condition is likely to degenerate if nothing is done.

One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty.

One of the best skills of an entrepreneur is the ability to question. By asking new questions, new answers are found.

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

One of the commonest ailments of the present day is the premature formation of opinion.

One of the first things we did was to find role models or mentors at companies that had achieved what we wanted to do. We bribed them or annoyed them for long enough until they decided to mentor us.

One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is that we lie to ourselves. We don't step back and look at ourselves like a competitor would.

One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.

One of the things all entrepreneurs struggle with is where their efforts will have the highest impact. Unfortunately, too many of us continue to do the very same things that led to our initial success because we're good at it and we've created and invested in systems to support them

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

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.

Nothing can drag you down if you're not holding on to it.

Outside the firm, price movements direct production, which is co-ordinated through a series of exchange transactions on the market. Within a firm, these market transactions are eliminated and in place of the complicated market structure with exchange transactions is substituted the entrepreneur-co-ordinator, who directs production.

Our eyes continue to see for a few nanoseconds an image that is not there anymore, which helps the brain to make sense of the flow of information it catches. Maybe that's what's happening to some entrepreneurs and VCs who have not yet grasped all the essential changes that have been happening in the French environment, and are seeing it as it used to be rather than as it is now! Today's France is business-friendly.

Our culture is making a big difference and, whether it's our curries or movies like "Slumdog Millionaire" or whether it's just the Bollywood numbers to which a lot of the world is rocking, I think India's soft power is going up. And we are contributing a lot of entrepreneurs to the world as well whether it's people like Lakshmi Mittal or Indra Nooyi or thinkers like Amalti Singh. This is all happening because of there's something fundamentally right and thoughtful about Indian society.

Part of the challenge of being an entrepreneur, if you're going for a really huge opportunity, is trying to find problems that aren't quite on the radar yet and try to solve those

Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.

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

People ask me all the time, 'How can I become a successful entrepreneur?' And I have to be honest: It's one of my least favorite questions, because if you're waiting for someone else's advice to become an entrepreneur, chances are you're not one.

Overwork tires; underwork wearies.

Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow. Flexible and efficient markets for labor and capital, an entrepreneurial tradition, and a general willingness to tolerate and even embrace technological and economic change all contribute to this resiliency.

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.

People do not look at the music business as an entrepreneur business at all times, but everything in this business is entrepreneurship. It's one thing to have the money and not have the knowledge. A lot of times people have great ideas, but don't have a plan. The whole thing about being an entrepreneur is you have to have a plan.

People can get information - on entertainment, politics, finance - much easier than before. That will change the way people do business, the way people live.

People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.