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I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.

Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

I don’t create art to get high dollar projects, I do high dollar projects so I can create more art.

I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.

I don't invest anymore in entrepreneurs who don't have charisma.

I don't like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created something to make a good living.

I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.

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.

I don't want to look too far ahead. The journey is what's happening right now, not what's on the finishing line.

I don't normally think of like most successful moments, because like most entrepreneurs, I tend to think that however how high of a mountain I've climbed, I'm always looking at the next mountain to climb.

I don't want to be known as a serial entrepreneur. I like doing one thing at a time and making sure that gets my full attention until it's well established. I enjoy the initial years of a company because they are the most dynamic, and that is when I can give the best of myself.

I figured maybe I had some talent as an investor… since it seemed like I was only a half-assed entrepreneur.

If Google teaches you anything, it's that small ideas can be big.

If Americans want prosperity, we need a grand reawakening to the incontrovertible fact that its source is entrepreneurs unfettered by meddling politicians.

If given a choice between investing in someone who has read REWORK or has an MBA, I’m investing in REWORK every time. A must read for every entrepreneur.

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there'd be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.

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.

If it's important to you and you want to do it 'eventually', just do it and correct course along the way.

I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.

If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.

If there's something you want to build, but the tech isn't there yet, just find the closest possible way to make it happen.

If we stop and look over the past and then into the future, we can see that the possibilities are growing greater and greater every day; that we have scarcely begun to reach the proper results from the field we have before us.

If you are going to go through hell, keep going

If the investors themselves are not sophisticated, if they themselves are not putting a lot of their own money to work, if they themselves don't understand the continuum of capital and how different parts of the capital structures react differently, then they're basically worthless. They're not going to give great advice to these entrepreneurs who then need it. So that is unfortunately the cycle we're in and we have to break the cycle.

If we are a good team and know what we want to do, one of us can defeat tons of them.

If you cannot sell, you cannot be an entrepreneur. If you cannot sell, you cannot raise money. if the thought of sales terrifies you, get a job at a dept. store and start there. Or get a job with a company like Xerox that requires that you go around to businesses and knock on doors. As your courage increases, you may want to try a company in network marketing or direct sales that is willing to train you.

If you cannot handle the pressure, don't be an entrepreneur. Go get a job!

If your aspirations are not greater than your resources, you’re not an entrepreneur.

If you depend on your company to take care of your retirement, your future income will be divided by five. Take care of it yourself, and you can multiply your future income by five.

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

If you look at the careers of great entrepreneurs and you look at the moment they took their plunge, the plunge is rarely a great financial or material risk, it’s a social risk. At the moment they started their new businesses, everyone around them said ‘you’re an idiot’.

If you pursued something that you felt strongly about, then I call that success.

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

If you look at the ecosystem, entrepreneurs as a class have gotten younger, younger, and younger. They also as a class have become less and less and less experienced. The good part about that is that you're unlocking this ability to start a company to so many more people. That's an amazing positive. The negative is they're coming to that job with dramatically less experience than they've ever had. So there needs to be someone around the table that can then help them.

If you're going to be an entrepreneur... it's not all textbook. It's gut feeling, it's intuition, it's a feeling you have that you can do this and make it happen. I think you have to have a personality.

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.

If you're talking about entrepreneurs in conflict and post-conflict settings, then you must talk about women, because they are the population you have left.

If your goals is to produce something of permanent value, you start to think differently about you want on the site.

If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entrepreneurs make a lot of money, but if you calculate the amount of stress-inducing work and time it takes and multiply that by the low likelihood of success and eventual payoff, it is not a great way to get rich.

If you've got $25,000, $50,000, $100,000, you're better off paying off any debt you have because that's a guaranteed return.

If you take the approach that “good” is not an accident - that everyone and everything that shows up in your life is there for a reason - you’ll begin to see every event (no matter how difficult or challenging) as a chance for enrichment and advancement in your life.

If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going.

If you want to be an entrepreneur, it's not a job, it's a lifestyle.

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.

If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.

If you want to understand entrepreneurs, you have to study the psychology of the juvenile delinquent. They don't have the same anxiety triggers that we have.

If you want to understand the entrepreneur, study the juvenile delinquent. The delinquent is saying with his actions, ‘This sucks, I’m going to do my own thing.’

I hate entrepreneurs with beautiful business plans.

I guess to be an entrepreneur you have to have a large ego, enormous pride and an ability to inspire others to follow your lead.

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.