Entrepreneurial Quotes

The entrepreneurial instinct is in you. You can't learn it, you can't buy it, you can't put it in a bottle. It's just there and it comes out.

That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.

My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.

Risk taking and the drive to pursue innovative ideas are the fuel that stokes the entrepreneurial spirit.

I'm more encouraged by the saplings: new music groups, tiny new venues, entrepreneurial musician-composers who aren't waiting to be discovered but are instead building their own Establishment.

Pathological Stubbornness and Irrational Optimism – Lessons I’ve learned on my entrepreneurial journey

I believe that drudgery and clock-watching are a terrible betrayal of that universal, inborn entrepreneurial spirit.

[We need] to nurture the entrepreneurial spirit and the tremendous untapped potential in our prisons.

Even the best data security systems can't protect private taxpayer information from entrepreneurial foreign businesses than can make huge profits selling U.S. taxpayer information.

Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.

When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun

Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself.

It horrifies me how much it costs to put on shows now, mainly due to EU regulations. The freedom to be entrepreneurial is no longer there. It's a massive business now.

My best entrepreneurial advice is to start.

If you want to get into a good entrepreneurial business, guillotines may be in fashion.

We've got unmatched talent, innovation, entrepreneurial spirit, so when we work together, we can all benefit.

People who come to Canada and have big dreams are really achieving something special from an entrepreneurial perspective.

Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

Successful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft.

My mom raised me with the idea of doing public service, and I definitely want to go in that direction. But I also want to follow in my dad's entrepreneurial footsteps.

Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.

You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.

There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen.

Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey.

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.

The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.

You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at.

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't.

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

The customer is always right...even when they're wrong.

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.

A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

I've been entrepreneurial since middle school. I was always arranging bake sales, dances and school trips to raise money for the Dalton School.

Find ways to decentralize. Move decision making authority down and out. Encourage a more entrepreneurial approach.

You have to be very brave and very entrepreneurial - you have to dare to create your own brand.

I am convinced the entrepreneurial spirit of the Indian people, if allowed to express itself freely in the marketplace, India will be all right.

I used to be called the "Green Jack Kemp" because of my promotion of entrepreneurial and work-based solutions for poor people.

I'm actually all in favor of freeing the entrepreneurial spirit - but it turns out, interestingly, that you actually need very strict regulations to free the entrepreneurial spirit.