Entrepreneur Quotes

It is not insult from another that causes you pain. It is the part of your mind that agrees with the insult. Agree only with the truth about you, and you are free.

If Americans want prosperity, we need a grand reawakening to the incontrovertible fact that its source is entrepreneurs unfettered by meddling politicians.

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.

The strongest thing you can cultivate as an entrepreneur is to not rely on luck but cultivating an ability to recognize fortunate situations when they are occurring.

Great products sell themselves.

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

If you want to be an entrepreneur, it's not a job, it's a lifestyle.

The transition strategies are more important than understanding what the outcome state will be.

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

Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.

Every time we launch a feature, people yell at us.

Every choice you make has an end result.

You have chosen the wrong path if it's not fun. And you are probably not taking enough risk if it's not hard and rocky sometimes.

There are a lot of rich people in the world. There are very few people who have the privilege of getting to invent things that billions of people use.

Location is the key to most businesses, and the entrepreneurs typically build their reputation at a particular spot.

Managers will work for a salary. Entrepreneurs create new businesses. Many people have capital, but instead of making money for business they build houses for rent. It's easy money to collect rental.

Not everyone can be Gandhi, but each of us has the power to make sure our own lives count - and it's those millions of lives that will ultimately build a better world.

Failure is not about insecurity. It's about lack of execution.

Disneyland is like Alice stepping through the Looking Glass; to step through the portals of Disneyland will be like entering another world.

Entrepreneurs don't finish when we are tired. We finish when we are done.

What's the worst that could happen? Everyone turned me down; big deal.

Always be willing to look at both sides of the argument. Understanding the other side is the best way to strengthen your own.

Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.

Being an entrepreneur is simply going from one mistake to the next. You must have the fortitude to continue on.

Entrepreneurs are always super optimistic. If they weren't they wouldn't be entrepreneurs.

An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true.

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

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

The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.

What happens next is up to you.

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.

You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.

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

Emotions will either serve or master, depending on who is in charge.

Initial response illustrates a great deal about someone's personal philosophy.

Selling is the most important skill as an entrepreneur. I'm not talking so much about selling a product so much as selling yourself, team, and deals.

All successful people - not just entrepreneurs - have got things wrong over and over again before finding the right solution.

If you are going to go through hell, keep going

One of the best skills of an entrepreneur is the ability to question. By asking new questions, new answers are found.

An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made.

Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and a limited future.

Every startup should address a real and demonstrated need in the world. If you build a solution to a problem lots of people have, it's so easy to sell your product to the world.

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.

I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.

Civilization is the intelligent management of human emotions.

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

A true business opportunity is the that an entrepreneur invents to grow him or herself. Not to work in, but to work on.

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

You can never be satisfied as an entrepreneur, and the basis of any successful, growing business is new clients.

Mastermind and collaborate with other smart entrepreneurs if they have futures that are even bigger than their present.