Entrepreneurship Quotes

Wisdom is hard to get but hardest to lose if once obtained. ~ Deepak Burfiwala

While Indian CEOs in Non-Indian companies are getting all the praise and admiration from the Indians, startups born on Indian soil remain unrecognized - this is not a matter of pride, it's a matter of shame, especially for a population whose history is replete with mathematical, scientific and philosophical achievements. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Successful entrepreneurship is ultimately a matter of flair. But there is also a fund of practical knowledge to be acquired and, of course, the right legal and financial framework has to be provided for productive enterprise to develop. ~ Margaret Thatcher

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

You just can't take for granted just how absolutely predatory the technology space is. ~ Sean Silcoff

I am a huge fan of capitalism and a huge fan of entrepreneurship and changing the world with technology and with entrepreneurship. Capitalism is awesome. To me, capitalism is my religion. ~ Jason Calacanis

To broaden your thinking, you have to expand the scope of your mind and imagination ~ Wogu Donald

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

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

My best ideas come in the shower, where I'm showered with water, but also ideas. ~ Ryan Lilly

Strategize yearly, plan quarterly, examine monthly, reflect weekly, act daily, and live #intentionally. ~ Farshad Asl

Other than much needed infrastructure development, local administrations in Papua must encourage entrepreneurship and creativity. ~ Ciputra

Entrepreneurship is the process of conquering fear with getting out of your comfort-zone and living daily in your God-given gift zone. ~ Farshad Asl

Whatever you're thinking, think bigger. ~ Tony Hsieh

ran - at separate times - a boutique investment banking firm and a small mortgage company. He served as the Treasurer for the multinational vitamin manufacturer USANA Health Sciences years before becoming CFO for MonaVie. Devin squeezed in two brief stints in government, including two years working for Jake Garn on the U.S. Senate Banking Committee Staff and another year working for an independent state agency called USTAR, where he helped foster technology entrepreneurship during Governor Jon Huntsman's administration. Devin is proud to be a Ute, having graduated from the University of Utah David Eccles School of Business, which recognized him as a Distinguished Alum in 2006. He also earned an MBA at Cornell University where he ran the student newspaper, Cornell Business. ~ Devin D. Thorpe

My approach to strategy: shoot, aim...then unleash hell! ~ Mark Anthony Peterson

When setting goals, create 'stretch' goals. They will assist you in developing your potential to its fullest! ~ Ann Marie Sabath

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

Live boldly now. Later may not be an option. ~ Andrena Sawyer

Three Ps that I can't sacrifice: Process, Purpose, and Principles. ~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea. ~ David Belasco

Those of us who believe in free markets and those of us who believe that in fact the whole goal of investment is entrepreneurship and job creation, we find it pretty hard to justify rich people figuring out clever legal ways to loot a company, leaving behind 1,700 families without a job. ~ Newt Gingrich

Libraries function as crucial technology hubs, not merely for free Web access, but those who need computer training and assistance. Library business centers help support entrepreneurship and retraining. ~ Scott Turow

Doug Rauch, former President of Trader Joe's, views employees and customers as two wings of a bird: you need both of them to fly. They go together - if you take care of your employees, they'll take care of your customers. When your customers are happier and they enjoy shopping, it also makes your employees' lives happier, so it's a virtuous cycle. ~ Nickles McHugh McHugh

The truth is that entrepreneurship is more like a roller coaster ride than a cruise. ~ Vivek Wadhwa

One thing that unites triumphant entrepreneurs, whether in Brooklyn, San Francisco or Great Falls, Montana, is strength of character.Individuality is the goal that we all strive to excel at in some way; the notion that we are distinct, special, that there is something teachable about our wisdom, something remarkable about our outlook. ~ Brian D'Ambrosio

Don't care about *new* mistakes you are going to make, take care that you don't just repeat older ones. ~ Prerak Trivedi

When that day comes, I want to remember that the questions, frustrations, and believe that I am lost are all signs that I chose an authentic path, not a stagnant finish line. ~ Jackie Viramontez

Europe is made of history,
America of philosophy,
Asia of prosperity,
and Africa of opportunity. ~ Sami Leino

Seek first the kingdom of God and all other things will be added to you. Don't worry about the things. Seek Him first and watch Him work in you. ~ Andrena Sawyer

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

Tell me the four people with whom you spend the most time and I will tell you who you are. ~ Ann Marie Sabath

Go for continuous self development if you aim at reaching mountaintop of your self-mastery. ~ Deepak Burfiwala

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

When I told my sister, who was a fashion designer in college, what I wanted to do, she said I was crazy. But once I got started, I couldn't turn back. Kimberly Goodwin, Snapping Turtle Kids ~ Holly Hurd

We are a product of our families, schools, and churches. Without the liberty and rule of law that characterize America, entrepreneurship would indeed be impossible. Any successful American who is not a patriot is a rank ingrate. ~ Rich Lowry

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

As a long-time British Airways advisor, I have seen first-hand that as a company they are committed to innovation, entrepreneurship and the Bay Area community. UnGrounded is strong proof of that commitment. ~ Rhonda Abrams

The people who work within these industries or public services know that there are basic flaws. But they are almost forced to ignore them and to concentrate instead on patching here, improving there, fighting the fire or caulking that crack. They are thus unable to take the innovation seriously, let alone to try to compete with it. They do not, as a rule, even notice it until it has grown so big as to encroach on their industry or service, by which time it has become irreversible. In the meantime, the innovators have the field to themselves. ~ Peter F. Drucker

Hiding behind titles to create security is insecurity. ~ Richie Norton

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

A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations. ~ Iqbal Quadir

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

Quality is not for compromise. ~ Dee Dee Artner

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

I am not the best because I said it, I am the best because I live it ~ Wogu Donald

If you want to do something in your life,

share everything but never your ideas. ~ Vikash Shrivastava

Professional loyalty now flows "horizontally" to and from your network rather than "vertically" to your boss, as Dan Pink has noted. ~ Reid Hoffman

I recently had the opportunity to participate in Inc.'s first-ever 'Hire Power Awards' event in Washington, D.C. The event was a testament to the power of American entrepreneurship and the role that it plays in driving job creation and innovation in a wide array of industries. ~ Karen Mills

Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them. ~ Daniel A. D'Aniello

My children have been learning lessons about entrepreneurship since they were in kindergarten, and these lessons are paying off: even though they are only 22, 18, and 15, they have already collectively launched three nonprofit organizations and several new businesses. ~ Naveen Jain

The goal - at least the way I think about entrepreneurship - is you realize one day that you can't really work anyone else. You have to start your won thing. It almost doesn't matter what the thing is. We had six different business plan changes, and then the last one was PayPal.
If that one didn't work out, if we still had the money and the people, obviously we would not have given up. We would have iterated on the business model and done something else. I don't think there was ever clarity as to who we were until we knew it was working. By then, we'd figured out our PR pitch and told everyone what we do and who we are. But between the founding and the actual PayPal, it was just like this tug-of-war where it was like, "We're trying this, this week." Every week you go to investors and say, "We're doing this, exactly this. We're really focused. We're going to be huge." The next week you're like, "That was a lie. ~ Jessica Livingston

No one is indispensable; but a dependable person is never expendable. ~ Kayambila Mpulamasaka

Many young athletes joined the gangs instead of aspiring to gold medals in the Olympics. You could easily discern the kind of sport they did by their body shape and injuries.
Well-built with a broken nose - a boxer.
Broad shoulders with torn ears - a wrestler.
Enormous muscles with little to no brain - a bodybuilder.
Short with broad shoulders and a quadratic head - a weightlifter. ~ Carlito Sofer, Nik Krasno

Pretty much all wealthy people who were willing to lose and have lost their health while chasing wealth are now willing to lose their wealth while chasing health. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. ~ Anita Roddick

Black female entrepreneurs don't make excuses, we find solutions. We're leaders, resourceful, ambitious, hardworking, and creative. We're powerful, unstoppable, confident, smart, and fearless. We're Exquisite Black Queens that represent Black Excellence… We are success! There's no denying it… Black female entrepreneurs are resilient and we rock! ~ Stephanie Lahart

Entrepreneurship is an art, you do it because you love it. ~ Farshad Asl

Strategy is about shaping the future. ~ Max McKeown

You can be your own boss ~ Sunday Adelaja

[E]conomic liberty and creative entrepreneurship are the basis of any solution to today's social and economic difficulties. Blaming business, setting wages, and attempting to run the economy by decree from Washington only exacerbates the problems. Consider the minimum wage. It seems so simple: Tell business to pay its workers more. But a hike in the minimum wage is essentially a tax, punishing precisely those companies that hire workers with the least skills. ~ Doug Bandow

People who are driven by love will overcome hardships and hurdles in ways that people who are only driven by profit never can. ~ Simon S. Tam

It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone. ~ Mark Cuban

According to Aman Mehndiratta, Persuasion of the idea and planning the strategy is the key activity for every business not only for the entrepreneurial business. But there goes an extra emphasis on the business started as an entrepreneurship. As here, everything including decisions, responsibilities, failures, success, appreciation, and criticism belongs to you only. Proper strategy and planning are necessary if one wants to avoid the future risks. ~ Aman Mehndiratta

At the end of the day, it's just grape juice. No one needs anything that I make. The last thing we need is another wine on the shelf. So that just makes me grateful for the people who do enjoy it. ~ Andre Hueston Mack

Think big from the beginning. ~ Ehab Atalla

America has always been a country of innovation and dynamism, entrepreneurship. And I think that one of the things that has made our country great too is its heterogeneous population where people come here from all over the world. ~ Jimmy Carter

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

Don't wait to be compelled to do great work. ~ Richie Norton

Each year about 600,000 start-ups are launched. Less than 0.5 percent attract VC. Of Inc. magazine's annual list of the 500 fastest growing companies in the United States assessed over a decade (1997–2007), less than 20 percent of companies were venture backed"
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"62.4 percent of VC investments were completely lost while 3.1 percent of the investments accounted for 53 percent of the profits for roughly 600 investments ~ Mahendra Ramsinghani

I am not concerned about results. The only thing I am concerned about is the process. How you tried to achieve something matters more than what you achieved. ~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

Your schedule predicts your miracle or not! ~ John Di Lemme

Don't just create art to make money. Make money so you can create more art. (Exchange any words you want for 'create art' and see if it fits). ~ Richie Norton

My father's own view was more than entrepreneurship; it was really a passion to build an institution in India. ~ Nita Ambani

By definition, entrepreneurship is vulnerable. It's all about the ability to handle and manage uncertainty. People are constantly changing, budgets change, boards change, and competition means you have to stay nimble and innovative. You have to create a vision and live up to that vision. There is no vision without vulnerability. ~ Brene Brown

Entrepreneurship is the way to go. It is the only way this generation that make a difference faster. ~ Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Unfortunately, the main problem of the world isn't on money, as it might seem at first sight, but on the mind of those that either use it, create it, maintain it, capitalize on it, or simply, ignore it. What use would science have if people didn't have problems needing a solution? What use would art have if people didn't have a need to escape their reality? What use would reading have if there was no desire to aspire to? What use would dreams have if life was perfect? And so, I'm not saying that money is necessary. but that our mind is what makes it valuable. And once you understand this, you actually master it. The solution lays on the fundamental laws of duality. The more you disregard money, the more it becomes a fundamental part of your world. Those that love it, however, don't even need to touch it or worry about it. And how convenient that we tend to ask questions about the things we refuse to learn about. ~ Robin Sacredfire

In looking at waste as an entirely modern, man-made idea, I stopped viewing garbage as garbage and instead slowly started to see it as a commodity. ~ Tom Szaky

Opportunities are everywhere. The question is who is going to take advantage of them. ~ Ehab Atalla

There are two types of limitations: those others place on us, and those we place on ourselves. One is more subtle. Both are equally dangerous. ~ Andrena Sawyer

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. ~ Mark Twain

Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don't find one, it's you. ~ Mark Cuban

Creative thinking poses a dynamic asset to every human ~ Wogu Donald

Stop nourishing other people's ideas and beliefs in your life. Take up your own idea and endeavor to accomplish it. ~ Abhijit Naskar

You're not born with confidence; it is a skill to learn. ~ Ehab Atalla

Always consider who you're learning from. Don't listen to people who are not experiencing the success you want. ~ Ehab Atalla

Entrepreneurship isn't for everyone, and not everyone is going to be an entrepreneur, but women who turn to business, turn to economics, because there are people depending on them, I think that their creativity, their resilience, their spirit, embody what's best about entrepreneurship. ~ Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

You may not have connections, or an education, or wealth, but with enough passion and sweat, you can make anything happen. ~ Gary Vaynerchuk

Be a smart learner. Learn from your mistakes and adjust your behavior accordingly. ~ Ehab Atalla

We've all been in positions where we felt out of place or not accepted for whatever reason. For me, that's been my life. I've always been that person that stood out. And what makes you an outcast is what makes you unique, and you should harness that. Being a black sheep gives you creative license to do sh*t differently. ~ Andre Hueston Mack

Time, energy and money. These should never be compromised. ~ Dee Dee Artner

Procrastination is like going to a fancy restaurant and filling up on bread and not leaving enough room for dinner. ~ Richie Norton

If you have felt any ounce of fear, insecurity, and uncertainty during your work day, then you might be an entrepreneur. ~ Timothy Freriks

I had been thinking about becoming a business owner for some time, but I didn't have the confidence to pursue it. My parents encouraged the idea, and I had scoffed at them irritably. I wanted the job security that a nine-to-five would provide me. But now I could see that security, both in the office world and beyond, was a myth. You could do everything right, but nothing would come to you if it wasn't Krishna's will. ~ Samita Sarkar

When it's about your life, it's time to be selfish. ~ Dee Dee Artner

If you allow yourself to be bogged down and lose your enthusiasm, you are dead in the water. But if you remain optimistic, cheerful and committed to your goal, there's nothing that can stop you. ~ Cathy Huges

Delaying is the most dangerous thing you can do in business. ~ Ehab Atalla

Your lack of confidence is the number one reason why you're not experiencing success. ~ Ehab Atalla

You are always self-employed. You are always the president of your own personal services corporation, no matter where you might be working at the moment. When you see yourself as self-employed, you develop the entrepreneur mentality. The mentality of the highly independent, self-responsible, self-starting individual. Instead of waiting for things to happen, you make things happen. You see yourself as the boss of your own life. You see yourself as completely in charge of your physical health, your financial well-being, your career, your relationships, your home, your car, and every element of your existence. This is the mindset of the truly excellent person. ~ Brian Tracy