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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.

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.

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

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.

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 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 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 tell you keep your job, start the company on the side. If I'm doing it on the side, then probably one of the reasons it fails is because I didn't dedicate enough time to it.

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

People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs.

Perhaps our most debilitating rut as a culture is a dependence on experts. Until we kick this dependency, how can we rise above the statistics and become a nation of entrepreneurs and leaders? The answer, as challenging as it is, is for entrepreneurs to show us the way, and to keep at it until more of us start to heed.

Persistence, persistence, persistence. I'm surprised how few entrepreneurs follow up.

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.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Profit is vital to human well-being. Profit is the payment to entrepreneurs just as wages are payments to labor, interest to capital and rent to land. In order to earn profits in free markets, entrepreneurs must identify and satisfy human wants and do so in a way that economizes on society's scarce resources.

Philosophy is the sum total of all that you know and what you decide is valuable.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Plans are great, but missions are better.

Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality.

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

Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.

Realize that if you can instantly create a problem, you can just as quickly and easily create a solution.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

Remember: Rewards come in action, not in discussion.

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!

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

Regardless of whether you are an entrepreneur or whether you are an employee of a large company, the absolute prerequisite is that you must know your stuff. There is no substitute for this.

Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself.

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.

Schumpter's daring and dashing entrepreneur is now a legendary figure from the distant past - if not from the mythology of capitalism - or is to be found only in the demimonde of business, founding new ice cream parlors or "deep freeze subscription clubs".

Robots are the new middle class. And everyone else will either be an entrepreneur or a temp staffer.

Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical decisions rather than company-building decisions and in my view often reduces the probability of success.

Sellout... I'm not crazy about the word. We're all entrepreneurs. To me, I don't care if you own a furniture store or whatever - the best sign you can put up is SOLD OUT.

SEO is a race, not a sprint.

Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.

Showing a profit means touching something and leaving it better than you found it.

Simple, not easy. There's a difference.

Simply put: we don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services.

Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.

Since the start, we've conceived French tech as a network of versatile local ecosystems spread all around the country, rather than a Paris-only business. We want our entrepreneurs to know that they can create a startup and make it grow in the place where they come from.

Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen.

Social media really grew up.

Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Socratic question: all plans? Some? Which ones? How do they do so?

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

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

Solve a real problem. You don't start a company because you want to be an entrepreneur or the fame and glory that comes along with it. You become an entrepreneur to solve a real problem.