Entrepreneur Quotes

I have to go 150 percent or nothing at all.

Just build things and find out if they work.

The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

I learned I'm not a good executive, I'm an entrepreneur and I'm creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do.

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

Everyone can tell you the risk. An entrepreneur can see the reward.

I will work day and night to avoid failure, but if I can't, I'll pick myself up the next day. The most important thing for entrepreneurs is not to be put off by failure.

Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.

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

Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.

The act of being an entrepreneur is a theological act: it is a belief that God has given you the tools to go out, make money and take care of your family.

When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

You can either fit in or stand out. Not both.

I hate entrepreneurs with beautiful business plans.

Failing can provide invaluable lessons and making mistakes and experiencing setbacks is part of the DNA of every successful entrepreneur.

There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success.

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.

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

In carrying out e-commerce, the most important thing is to keep doing what you are doing right now with passion, to keep it up.

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

Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that.

Friends and family will tell you why your ideas won't work. Most are left-brained employees and specialists and NOT entrepreneurs.

A real businessman or entrepreneur has no enemies. Once he understand this, the sky's the limit.

The thing that's wrong with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur

A company's culture is the foundation for future innovation. An entrepreneurs job is to build the foundation

Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact.

Don't let the bastards get you down.

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Anything can be done, as long as you truly believe it.

Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it opens before hitting the ground.

You CAN be what you want to be. Whatever that is.

My advice for an entrepreneur just starting out is to differentiate yourself. Why are you different? What’s important about you? Why does the customer need you?

Capitalism encourages entrepreneurs to act with consideration for others even when their ultimate motive is to benefit themselves.

I hate the title of being called the richest woman in India, but it's the recognition that this was the value that I had created as a woman entrepreneur and that makes me very, very proud.

We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.

Imagine the world of mobile based on Nokia and Motorola if Apple had not been restarted by a missionary entrepreneur named Steve Jobs who cared more for his vision than being tactical and financial.

If you want to understand entrepreneurs, you have to study the psychology of the juvenile delinquent. They don't have the same anxiety triggers that we have.

I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.

Before there is a business, a successful entrepreneur is designing this type of business in his or her mind's eye. According to my rich dad, this is the job of a true entrepreneur.

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

Giving up is the greatest failure.

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

Good entrepreneurs are community builders, actively involved with their communities and dedicated to the community's well being. If you're dedicated to your community, it will be dedicated to you.

A pivot is a change in strategy without a change in vision.

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.

I would much rather always look forward to the time when I am going to ride in a carriage, than to look back on the time when I used to.

Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it.

My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself

The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.

The happy person often walks, unshaken, along the path that a thousand unhappy people insist is wrong.