Aspiring Entrepreneur Quotes

Hey, you, aspiring writer, stop aspiring and start WRITING already! ~ Ksenia Anske

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences. ~ Tom Robbins

At this rate, I'm still going to be aspiring by the time I'm expiring. ~ Scott Cherney

Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite. ~ John Leonard

I see myself much more as a writer/director or at least an aspiring writer/director - not necessarily in film. ~ Ricky Gervais

This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship - the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. ~ Peter F. Drucker

repetition and continuous learning that embeds the information for later recall. ~ Entrepreneur Publishing

To all those aspiring writers who dream first and sleep later. ~ L.C. Perry

Good entrepreneurs can manage, but no one but an entrepreneur can entrepreneur, let alone help build and lead the world's community of leading social entrepreneurs and their top business entrepreneur allies. ~ Bill Drayton

Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell. ~ Keith Hernandez

I'm not an aspiring writer; I'm a writer aspiring to be read. ~ D.L. Marriott

Aristotle wrote the 'Poetics' 2,400 years ago. It's really an instruction manual for aspiring filmmakers. It's as valid today as it was then. ~ Nicholas Jarecki

To become a distinguished entrepreneur, you need to have an undeniable, unquestionable and unmovable passion for your vision. ~ Onyi Anyado

I give this book 5 Stars and highly recommend it to all fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writers, aspiring writers, bloggers or journalists. ~ Sunny

An entrepreneur in debt is an entrepreneur in business. ~ Duncan Bannatyne

A social entrepreneur is somebody who knows how to make an idea reality. ~ Eboo Patel

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

Anyone can be an entrepreneur. All it takes is a little drive and ambition. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

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

The only thing any entrepreneur, salesperson or anyone in any position can control is their effort. ~ Mark Cuban

Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'. ~ Alexis Ohanian

I sincerely believe that patience is one of the keys to success. ~ Chris TDL

Live life like a Legend, and society will start acknowledging you as a great Entrepreneur ! ~ Ujjwal Chugh

Being an entrepreneur is the greatest investment ~ Sunday Adelaja

An entrepreneur is someone who empowers & pushes people to attain their highest capabilities. ~ Apoorve Dubey

The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right. ~ Gene Weingarten

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. ~ Aaron Patzer

I've never really thought of myself as an entrepreneur. I think of an entrepreneur as someone who wants to make a lot of money. That has never been at the top of my list. ~ James Goodnight

You can be entrepreneurial even if you don't want to be in business. You can be a social entrepreneur focused on the not-for-profit sector. You can be an agriculture entrepreneur if you want to change how people think about farming. You can be a policy entrepreneur if you want to go into government. The idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges. ~ Steve Case

What is the most overrated skill for an entrepreneur? The most overrated skill is skill. Luck is more important. The entrepreneur gets credit for being this genius, when really he was just at the right place at the right time. ~ Ken Hendricks

The greatest opportunities today are to go into business for yourself as an entrepreneur. ~ Paul Zane Pilzer

A firm consist of the system of relationships which comes into existence when the direction of resources is dependent on an entrepreneur ... As a firm gets larger, there may be decreasing returns to the entrepreneur function, that is, the costs of organizing additional transactions within the firm may rise. ~ Ronald Coase

You can't be an absentee entrepreneur and expect the team to stay motivated. ~ Martin Zwilling

A true measure of an entrepreneur / successful-person is how they deal with adversity. ~ Noah Kagan

Being an # entrepreneur is not a get-rich scheme; it takes # strength of character to keep going. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

An entrepreneur is someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down. ~ Reid Hoffman

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

Don't be cocky. Don't be flashy. There's always someone better than you. ~ Tony Hsieh

Every entrepreneur deals with fears of failure. However, the truly successful know how to face these fears and keep on working. ~ Yogi Berra

A legislative entrepreneur ... doesn't just believe the right things. He's out there trying to make a good idea legislatively viable. ~ Matt Kibbe

The entrepreneur must be the best salesperson and marketer in his business. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. ~ Nolan Bushnell

As an entrepreneur, you can always find a solution if you try hard enough. ~ Lori Greiner

If you aren't practicing and playing to be first, then maybe you shouldn't be an entrepreneur. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Everyone can tell you the risk. An entrepreneur can see the reward. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you'll fail ten times for every success. ~ Adam Horowitz

It was a chance encounter with a biotech entrepreneur from Ireland that got me started as an entrepreneur in India, because I partnered this Irish company in setting up India's first biotech company. ~ Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Wantrepreneur: "I'll do it later."

Entrepreneur: Today IS later. ~ Richie Norton

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it. ~ Roy Ash

You can't get anywhere without incredible passion, because if you're an entrepreneur, there's gonna be a lot of bumps in the road. A great artist has to do their art. There's nothing that can stop them from doing it. They just have to get it out there. It's the same thing for an entrepreneur. If you don't feel that way, then you're probably not really an entrepreneur. ~ Trip Hawkins

An entrepreneur is born, when a person has more reasons to drive his dreams against his excuses. ~ Sukant Ratnakar

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going. ~ Richard Branson

I'm an explorer by nature, and being an entrepreneur allows me to explore new opportunities and technologies. And that's the best part of it. ~ Anousheh Ansari

As an investor-entrepreneur, I've always tried to be contrarian, to go against the crowd, to identify opportunities in places where people are not looking. ~ Peter Thiel

Today as an entrepreneur you have more options. ~ Niklas Zennstrom

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

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. ~ Richard Branson

There are many wrong reasons to want to be an entrepreneur. I think there's only one good reason: to change the world. ~ Phil Libin

If you think you've never lived up to a situation, you have your own story or you will be the hero. ~ Chris TDL

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel. ~ Alexander Pope

The only reason you should be an entrepreneur is because that's the only way the idea will come into the world. ~ Dustin Moskovitz

It takes you 5 years to build your reputation, but 5 minutes to ruin it. ~ Chris TDL

I'd rather invest in an entrepreneur who has failed before than one who assumes success from day one. ~ Kevin O'Leary

You see, there is no such thing as a failed entrepreneur. You are a failed entrepreneur only when you quit. Until then, you are simply not successful ... yet. ~ Anonymous

An entrepreneur is someone who is the king of his business one day and its slave the next. ~ Ajeet Sharma

The problem with the French is that they have no word for entrepreneur. ~ George H. W. Bush

An entrepreneur is someone that steals office supplies from home and brings them to work. ~ Auren Hoffman

If your aspirations are not greater than your resources, you're not an entrepreneur. ~ C. K. Prahalad

I think that my original drive as an entrepreneur was precisely that desire to get away from the image of the shipping magnate's son. ~ Stelios Haji-Ioannou

The rollercoaster of business ownership is for you - if after using a motion sickness bag, you don't want to
stop riding. ~ Steven Ivy Attorney Entrepreneur

Yet for every American who actually starts a business, there are likely millions more who begin each year saying "OK, this is the year I am going to start a business," and then don't. ~ Entrepreneur Press

I usually tell people that everything I learned about being an entrepreneur I learned by f'ing up at my first company. ~ Mark Suster

All that you need to become an entrepreneur and change the world is a working brain - and pretty much nothing else. ~ Adora Svitak

Don't try to be original; just try to be good. ~ Paul Rand

Fear of failure is the reason most often cited to explain why so many aspiring writers never realize their dreams. But I think it's that same fear of failure that absolutely invigorates those who do push through-that is, the fear of not being heard. ~ Betsy Lerner

"Why is the creative entrepreneur the riskiest type to be?" I asked. "Because being creative means you are often a pioneer. It is easy to copy a successful and proven product. It is also less risky. If you learn to innovate, create, or invent your way to success, you are an entrepreneur creating new value rather than an entrepreneur who wins by copying." ~ Robert Kiyosaki

I wasn't born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Dreaming isn't bad for you but not doing anything to craft your dream is. ~ Mohith Agadi

You won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it. ~ John Lennon

Being an entrepreneur is a mental job...
It takes patients! YOU are doing more motivation to yourself than anyone on this planet. ~ Dee Williams

Creativity is the new currency, so, are you credited with new thoughts or overdrawn in old thinking? ~ Onyi Anyado

A little bit of good can turn into a whole lot of good when fueled by the commitment of a social entrepreneur. ~ Jeffrey Skoll

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

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

An entrepreneur isn't someone who owns a business, it's someone who makes things happen. ~ Tim Ferriss

I think when you are an aspiring writer, you must write every day. It's not as though anybody will call you up on the phone and say, "I understand you are a very promising, aspiring writer and I'm going to give you this assignment." You have to create it yourself or it's never going to happen. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Entrepreneurs are all a little crazy. There is a fine line between an entrepreneur and a crazy person. Crazy people see and feel things that others don't. An entrepreneur's dream is often a kind of madness, and it is almost as isolating. What differentiates the entrepreneur from the crazy person is that the former gets other people to believe in his vision. ~ Anita Roddick

Make your team feel respected, empowered and genuinely excited about the company's mission. ~ Tim Westergren

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. ~ Henry Kravis

I believe that as an entrepreneur, when you share success, it grows. ~ Hamdi Ulukaya

You have got to be willing to be poor as an entrepreneur. ~ Sean Parker

My fear drives me. My faith directs me. I am an entrepreneur. ~ Farshad Asl

Remember, you will always fail in business if you don't try to open your own business. ~ Steven Ivy Attorney Entrepreneur

The focus of the entrepreneur must always be on exchanging products or services for money, and anything that distracts from that like actually running a business, should be avoided where possible. ~ John Winterson Richards

An entrepreneur is born with the mentality to take risks, though there are several important characteristics: courage, faith in yourself, and above all, even when you fail, to learn from failure and get up and try again. ~ Sheldon Adelson

Everything you say and do...it all sparkles so brightly. It's too blinding for me, and I end up closing my eyes. But I can't help aspiring to be like you. ~ Arima Kousei

To be an entrepreneur, it just takes a lot of persistence, dedication, and drive. No matter what happens, you have to be wiling to get back up and try again. ~ Jeet Banerjee

Anybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of success are zilch. ~ Tom Peters

It's not easy making a living as a writer, and for many years I worked at a Waterstones in Dublin. It was a good environment for an aspiring writer, with lots of events and authors appearing. ~ John Boyne

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.
~ Jim Harrison