Best 1380 quotes in «entrepreneur quotes» category

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Business is more exciting than any game.

But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does.

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

But economic recovery must be earned. And it will be earned by entrepreneurs and it will be earned by small businesses.

But it [crony capitalism] erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who provide what consumers want.

By 2025, 80 percent of the functions doctors do will be done much better and much more cheaply by machines and machine learned algorithms.

Big oil, big steel, big agriculture avoid the open marketplace. Big corporations fix prices among themselves and thus drive out of business the small entrepreneur. Also, in their conglomerate form, the huge corporations have begun to challenge the very legitimacy of the state.

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.

Build pockets of stillness into your life.

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

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

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.

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

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

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.

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

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

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.

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.

...countries don't create economies. It is entrepreneurs and companies that create and revitalize economies. The role of the governments should be to create a nourishing environment for entrepreneurs and companies to flourish, not to get in the way of economic development.

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

Conventional wisdom suggests the primary motivator for entrepreneurs is money or wealth creation and, in fact, much of the political debate tends to center around what kind of tax or regulatory policy changes will turn corporate suits into small business adventurers overnight.

Creative avoidance is the type of procrastination that affects home business entrepreneurs the most. It is unconsciously filling our day with trivial, unimportant work.

Count the cost first. Don’t pay too big a price for pursuing minor values.

Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.

Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.

Creativity is as important as literacy.

"Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.

Design is more of a kitchen than a knife, and more of a lab than a beaker.

Designers are optimistic people who are trained to be courageous about the future—and making the future happen. They aren’t always aware of the intricacies of operations and the impacts of the solutions they propose, just like entrepreneurs, but they aren’t afraid of confronting a blank piece of paper (or screen or board) and getting to work making something new.

Designers + artists see potential in things where others do not. I think artists in many ways are the original entrepreneurs.

Do more and understand that all wealth came from poor people either as the entrepreneurs or the consumers who buy the product that keeps the entrepreneurs in business.

Design your life to minimize reliance on willpower.

Do more of what you love, less of what you tolerate and none of what you hate.

Don't be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don't let the bastards get you down.

Do not be concerned that you might set a target too high and fail. Be concerned that you will set it too low and succeed.

Dig your well before you're thirsty.