Quotes About Entrepreneurship

We need to move back toward a free market.

I'm a very free market guy.

As a Main Street entrepreneur, I believe in free trade.

Sometimes freedom from normal rules is what gives you competitive advantage.

The heart of the entrepreneur can beat freely in anyone.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn't start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

I think that sometimes people are frightened to take the risk of entrepreneurship.

I belong to the breed of first-generation entrepreneurs who have basically created our enterprises with very frugal resources.

Confidence, capital, and new markets fuel entrepreneurship and job-generating expansion of existing businesses.

Confidence, capital, and credit fuel entrepreneurship and economic expansion.

We've tapped into a huge demand, and it's up to us to fulfill that demand and to be creative doing it.

I enjoy what I do because it keeps evolving - when I was a cook, I wanted to be a chef de partie; when I was a chef de partie, I wanted to be a chef; when I was a chef, I wanted to be a restaurateur, and now I am a chef entrepreneur. I am still fulfilling my dream.

I often work 14-hour days, but the job is very fulfilling. I love being my own boss.

The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.

If anyone can make anything, anywhere. It fundamentally changes the meaning of business.

The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experience. It's excuses.

It's definitely an interesting question: 'Do you need more funding to start a luxury business?' That's something I want to think about a little bit more.

In a market where funding is hard to come by, if you're scaled already, then you are in a brilliant position because nobody is going to catch up with you.

If you're not funding female-founded firms, you're leaving behind half your talent.

Fundraising is a long and distracting process, and by the end of it, all you want to do is go back to building the product that you're working on.

I prefer building rather than fundraising.

Britain and the US remain the Wild West for ideas, where pioneers push each other towards ever greater heights in the white heat of free enterprise. No one knows their place, no one fears failure and no one is ashamed of success.

Some people revel in getting their hands dirty. These are the people that make startups grow wildly. People with hustle also tend to be much more agile - they're the water that goes around the rock. These are the people you want around when everything goes wrong. They're also the people you want beside you when everything goes right.

SpaceX is very unusual. I don't know of any other startup where the founder put in $100 million of his own money before looking for any outside capital. They have wildly exceeded any reasonable expectations.