Quotes About Entrepreneurship

You're only the boss if you put up your own money.

I think being a freelancer really taught me to hustle and gave me respect for anyone who puts it on the line every day for something creative.

My fans kept asking where they could get clothes like 'Destiny's Child's', so it was only natural for us to do a clothing line. I was adamant about not putting my name on something that I didn't love.

Being an entrepreneur means the ability to think out of the box by putting away our fear of any risk, including financial.

I'm a risk-taker because I don't have a lot of experience in putting up a business before - I didn't really learn about this in school - but I still choose to do it, especially since I'm now getting good advice from people around me.

Almost all of my business flights are commercial, not private.

It is not often that one of the world's best entrepreneurs rings you up and says 'I've got this business we are about to float off as an independent company and we'd like you to be chief executive.'

I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.

I love food, and the food industry is huge, and I just love dealing in it.

Following in the footsteps of Berry Gordy, I always admire what he did.

I'd want to start being a creative director of a specific line, like Adidas, for example. If they called me up to collaborate on something, I would do it.

People have asked me, 'Is it about Apple or is it about Jobs?' and I say it's about how a man becomes his company and the company becomes the man. That has only happened a few times, like it happened with Ford, I think, they became inextricably linked together.

The word 'Spanx' was funny. It made people laugh. No one ever forgot it.

I have actually been very fortunate to be able to make films on my own credit card without having huge funders behind me dictating how the story should be told.

If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.

Technology is the foundation of the empowerment economy.

I founded Minted in 2007 with the desire to use 'crowd-sourcing' to bring designs from the best emerging and independent designers in the world to consumers.

If you think 20 years out and ask what's the most important company on the planet, it is not any company you could write down today. The most important company 20 years from now has not even been founded yet and doesn't have a name.

I can sit across the table from somebody that worked with me and my company that I founded and say, 'Here are five things I don't like about what you're doing, and we have to fix it.'

I was very happy in Wipro; happier in Mindtree because I founded and took it public.

I don't want to be the guy that's sitting here, calling somebody and telling them their dream. I want to be in the seat of the founder.

It helps to have founded and run a company if you're going to help somebody run a company who is a founder.

If you ask a founder how their company is doing, they always say, 'Oh it's great. We're totally crushing it,' and that's almost never true.

As a founder, you are a very active component of your company.