Entrepreneur Quotes

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. ~ Yvon Chouinard

Everyone loves the idea of "disruption" in business, but no one likes it when it happens to them. ~ Richie Norton

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

Chris Salamone has create and develop educational and leadership development programs for our nation's youth and
young adults that have provided many opportunities for students to grow and develop. ~ Chris Salamone

Amid the characteristics that make a successful entrepreneur, one stood out: juvenile delinquency. ~ Alexa Clay

Your job is to commit to the process of becoming an entrepreneur and then to practice what entrepreneurs do so that entrepreneurship can find you when you've practiced enough to be ready. ~ Michael E. Gerber

Don't look for the next opportunity. The one you have in hand is the opportunity. ~ Paul Arden

You can't change the world if the world doesn't know who you are. ~ Francis Shenstone

Unless your message is that you have no message, you need a message. ~ Richie Norton

When you find an idea that you just can't stop thinking about, that's probably a good one to pursue. ~ Josh James

See the sales process for what it is-- a big assembly line. ~ Matthew Pollard

As an entrepreneur, you work out solutions. ~ Les Wexner

My father was an entrepreneur - a sign maker, and he had about 20 employees - and often he'd take me to business meetings, and I would listen to him talk with his workers and customers. We would also talk a lot about business over dinner. ~ Bernard L. Schwartz

Any outcome, any deal that doesn't preserve the freedom and openness of the internet for consumers and entrepreneurs will be unacceptable. ~ Julius Genachowski

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

I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education. ~ Adam Braun

To some extent, being an entrepreneur is a lonely journey. ~ Chad Hurley

Entrepreneurship is the engine fuelling innovation, employment generation and economic growth. Only by creating an environment where entrepreneur- ship can prosper and where entrepreneurs can try new ideas and empower others can we ensure that many of the world's issues will not go unaddressed. ~ Klaus Schwab

As an entrepreneur making decisions for your company, always go back to your first principles of what's important to you and why you started in the first place. ~ Matt Mullenweg

Everyone loves a flawed hero. I don't want perfect people. I want people who have a story, have been through some shit, dance to their own beat and still make i work, not the fake-arsed posh fuck-wits who look down on us slightly geeky weird-but-cool entrepreneurs. ~ Dan Meredith

Failure is part of discovering the problem you need to be working on. If, as an entrepreneur, you are afraid to fail or to admit the failure of your efforts, then you completely lose any chance at being able to adapt and succeed at finding the problem that needs solving. ~ Caterina Fake

If you must then hire for passion first, experience second and credentials third. Then train those hired for directed passion, dropping the excess baggage and the whole process of unlearning. An entrepreneur is much like an architect shapping human resources into a well crafted power house. ~ Nikhil Sharda

If you are an entrepreneur, you have to think outside of the box. ~ Wayne Rogers

Sea-Monkeys are hybrid brine shrimp and the brainchild of the mail-order entrepreneur Harold von Braunhut in 1957. When their crystallized eggs are submerged in water, minuscule crustaceans emerge; they can grow up to 2 inches long. ~ Brendan I. Koerner

Entrepreneurs do more than anyone thinks possible, with less than anyone thinks possible. ~ John Doerr

There is no elevator to success to have to take the stairs. ~ Hyacil Han

I don't create art to get high dollar projects, I do high dollar projects so I can create more art. ~ Chase Jarvis

Even though you read much Zen literature, you must read each sentence with a fresh mind. You should not say, "I know what Zen is," or "I have attained enlightenment." This is also the real secret of the arts: always be a beginner."
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"When you are sitting in the middle of your own problem, which is more real to you: your problem or you yourself? The awareness that you are here, right now, is the ultimate fact. "
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"Knowing that your life is short, to enjoy it day after day, moment after moment, is the life of "form is form and emptiness is emptiness."
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"You may feel as if you are doing something special, but actually it is only the expression of your true nature; it is the activity which appeases your inmost desire. But as long as you think you are practicing zazen for the sake of something, that is not true practice."
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"The most important thing is to forget all gaining ideas, all dualistic ideas. In other words, just practice zazen in a certain posture. ~ Shunryu Suzuki

What differentiates the success stories from the failures is that the successful entrepreneurs had the foresight, the ability, and the tools to discover which parts of their plans were working brilliantly and which were misguided, and adapt their strategies accordingly. ~ Eric Ries

The problem is not the problem. The problem is how you think about the problem. ~ Ehab Atalla

It would be wonderful to become what Oprah has become: she is in such a class of her own, as an entrepreneur, as a performer and an icon. The idea of building a series of programmes and choosing people that I think have talent to do them would be a very interesting idea. I would love to show that television can have soul, depth and range. ~ Charlie Rose

As a builder, as an entrepreneur, how can you create something for someone else if you don't have even enough glancing familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes? ~ Timothy Ferriss

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. ~ Henry David Thoreau

The typical entrepreneur is no longer the bold and tireless man of Marshall, or the sly and rapacious Moneybags of Marx, but a mass of inert shareholders, indistinguishable from rentiers, who employ salaried managers to run their concerns. ~ Edwin Arlington Robinson

When haters start to rear their ugly head, just play around with them and throw them a bone so they can go away and chew on it. ~ Richie Norton

A smart entrepreneur knows they cannot run a business on their own. They know that business is a team sport. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Give me an entrepreneur with a lot of courage, gusto and who iterates rapidly, and I will back that person day in and day out. ~ Douglas Leone

At President Obama's direction, the U.S Department of Agriculture is working hard to unleash the power of America's innovators and entrepreneurs to build a green energy economy. ~ Tom Vilsack

The average for entrepreneurs is 3.8 failures before they finally make it in business. ~ John C. Maxwell

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

Jack of all trades or master of one? If you're a master of one, you'll soon be a master of none. Times are a changin. Be a jack of all trades. Or better, master of many! ~ Richie Norton

It's better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a cow. ~ Stan Shih

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The key to most start-up successes is seeing a need and filling it. ~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

We were born a nation of entrepreneurs. That is why so many
people came to this country from so many different nations and cultures
around the globe. The entrepreneur sees the opportunity, takes
action, and successfully learns from the experience. They go on to
create wealth. They become part of that demographic that is called
"the rich." They, not the government, drive the economy and create
jobs. Only a mind with an envious, greedy perspective would consider
punitively taxing the rich as a viable solution to our fiscal miasma.
This is a solution springing from the fount of ignorance and deemed
wise only by fools. ~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

Whatever you may have heard, self-publishing is not a short cut to anything. Except maybe insanity. Self-publishing, like every other kind of publishing, is hard work. You don't wake up one morning good at it. You have to work for that. ~ Zoe Winters

You don't need to chase wealth, just become a real entrepreneur and the world is your oyster. ~ Amah Lambert

How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable? ~ Seth Godin

I couldn't care less who is mad at me as long as the entrepreneur comes out ahead. ~ Ron Conway

Surrounded yourself with brilliant people. You can't HELP but grow when that happens. ~ Chris Brogan

There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer. ~ Peter F. Drucker

The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction. The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers. ~ Ludwig Von Mises

Passive Income: It's not just about real estate ~ Chris Guillebeau

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period. ~ Tom Peters

Darwin's Theory Survival of the Fittest, also applies into Business. Companies which consistently innovate, keep itself updated with customer's needs, market trends, check out their competition and accordingly make the strategy to evolve and keep them ahead of competition are the ones which are best suited for survival in Business Environment Evolution ~ Ashu Gaur

Every book you've ever read on LEADERSHIP will finally make sense (and become practical) if you change the word "leader" to INFLUENCER. ~ Richie Norton

The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends. ~ Bill Drayton

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. ~ Ashton Kutcher

Any family without an entrepreneur has a limited hope. ~ Auliq Ice

If you can't feed a team with two pizzas, it's too large. ~ Jeff Bezos

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

EBay gave me the framework to discover I was an e-commerce entrepreneur. I touched everything, from shipping to logistics. ~ Sophia Amoruso

I think, as an entrepreneur, you have to see the unlimited amount of potential but concentrate on your day and just keep building. ~ Jon Oringer

In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge for the modern entrepreneur is to take that path. ~ Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution

Unlike other product developers, Jobs did not believe the customer was always right; if they wanted to resist using a mouse, they were wrong. ~ Walter Isaacson

You should never have to feel inauthentic or deceptive to succeed in business. ~ Matthew Pollard

A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more. ~ Ben Horowitz

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. ~ Jacqueline Novogratz

I'm an entrepreneur first and a wine critic second. ~ Gary Vaynerchuk

As an entrepreneur, you have to be OK with failure. If you're not failing, you're likely not pushing yourself hard enough. ~ Alexa Von Tobel

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

To be truly successful you have to break away from the crowds, popularity and your ego for a while. Somewhere you can work towards achieving your goals, say no to distractions and concentrate on studying and practicing. ~ Francis Shenstone

The sooner you realize, and contribute to the fact, that companies are created to make money - not to create jobs; the sooner you will increase the security of your job - and start earning more money. ~ Steven Ivy Attorney Entrepreneur

All I want to be is a wandering entrepreneur touching billions of lives. I am going to be the monk who never bought a Ferrari. ~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers. ~ Ludwig Von Mises

When we're considering investing in a startup, we first want to know that the entrepreneur has a clear understanding of the market. Who are the major players? What about this market is ripe for disruption? What is this startup's unfair advantage to disrupt this market? In the first conversation we have with a company, these are questions that we're looking for clear answers to. ~ Mike Belsito

Too many start up business fail simply because their owners continue to think and act like employees. ~ Michael LeBoeuf

Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across. ~ Guy Kawasaki

You can talk any redneck into a challenge. That's why so many rednecks die in strange ways. ~ Jase Robertson

If you're an entrepreneur and you're starting a company, I think the first thing you do is you go and talk to a bunch of people. But then the next thing you probably should do is figure out if there's a broader demand than just people you know. That's where I think SurveyMonkey is pretty valuable to people. ~ Dave Goldberg

If I had one piece of advice to tell an entrepreneur, I always say, 'You have to have emotional investment in what you're working on.' That's what we lacked at Odeo. ~ Biz Stone

Successful entrepreneurs don't wait for the perfect moment - they create it ~ Richard Branson

Hoping gets you nothing in life. If you want more in life it's your job to earn it. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

There are only three requirements for success. First, decide exactly what it is you want in life. Second, determine the price that you are going to have to pay to get the things you want. And third, and this is most important, resolve to pay that price. ~ H. L. Hunt

Engage your emotions at work. Your instincts and emotions are there to help you. ~ Richard Branson

You can be your own boss ~ Sunday Adelaja

Chris says that Creativity, is the most crucial for the leader to think out of the box and provide the best way of getting things done. ~ Chris Salamone

Life isn't about luck, but being ready to receive opportunities. ~ Francis Shenstone

i WILL reach success because i will not accept anything less ~ Nick Macri

I believe in entrepreneurs. I believe in their ability to make positive change in the world. ~ Jessica Jackley

In Ireland we have a very old saying, When you can see the mountains it's going to rain and when you can't see the mountains it's raining. ~ David Allen

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

For me, self-esteem-building and confidence-building is the foundation for anything that we do, whether you want to be a writer, a painter, or a entrepreneur. ~ Hill Harper

The formula is simple - do more of what is working, do less of what isn't, and try on new behaviors to see if they produce better results. ~ Jack Canfield

Have the STRENGTH to say "no" to the status quo.

Have the WILL to listen to the deepest desires of your heart.

Have the COURAGE to ACT on and live out your intent. ~ Richie Norton

Where would the Rockefellers be today if old John D. had gone on selling short-weight kerosene ... to widows and orphans instead of wisely deciding to mulct the whole country. ~ S.J Perelman

If you can create something useful, its reachable audience (e.g., employers or customers) is essentially limitless - which greatly magnifies your reward. On the other hand, if what you're producing is mediocre, then you're in trouble, as it's too easy for your audience to find a better alternative online. Whether you're a computer programmer, writer, marketer, consultant, or entrepreneur, your situation has become similar to Jung trying to outwit Freud, or Jason Benn trying to hold his own in a hot start-up: To succeed you have to produce the absolute best stuff you're capable of producing - a task that requires depth. ~ Cal Newport

We are living in a world where helping others is not usual. People often give help to those with whom they have some vested interest or selfishness. One can barely find someone who is willing to give without any selfish intentions. But some people act like a blessing in disguise, yes we are about the person who never fails to help, the man with a golden heart- Aman Mehndiratta. ~ Aman Mehndiratta

No," said his cousin. "I've had enough of this. Let's write to the newspapers! That's the way to get things done. Everyone's complaining about the fruit and vegetables and the seafood. Vetinari should be made to understand the plight of the small-time entrepreneur. After all, what do we occasionally pay our taxes for? ~ Terry Pratchett