Quotes About Entrepreneurship

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

I am absolutely confident that St. Louis can attract major players in technology and make the companies that are here blossom.

Microfinance is an idea whose time has come.

How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.

If given a choice between investing in someone who has read REWORK or has an MBA, I'm investing in REWORK every time. A must read for every entrepreneur.

Any time is a good time to start a company.

Everyone starting a startup for the first time is scared, and everyone feels like a bit of an imposter.

Wait until companies have an initial prototype, have shown that they have the potential to be profitable and have the ability to scale. That's the best time to invest.

Become one of those people who work hard, invest and build, and at the same time create employment and opportunities for others.

It doesn't matter whether the Dow is 5000 or 50,000. If you're an entrepreneur, there is no bad time to start a company.

I find that many entrepreneurs are trying to do everything when it would be cheaper and more time-efficient to delegate, even if there are monetary costs associated with that.

Network marketing is really the greatest source of grass-roots capitalism, because it teaches people how to take a small bit of capital, that is your time, and build the American dream.

As long as you're in the food business, why not make sweets?

Tom Perkins's dictums: you succeed in venture capital by backing the right deals, not by haggling over valuations.

The six other members of the Traitorous Eight bought shares, and Robert Noyce saw to it that his small alma mater, Grinnell College, was invited to participate.

People have come to the erroneous conclusion that if they're not willing to start something separate, world-changing, and risky, they have no business starting anything. Somehow, we've fooled ourselves into believing that the project has to have a name, a building, and a stock ticker symbol to matter.

It's extremely difficult to find smart people willing to start useful projects. Because sometimes what you start doesn't work. The fact that it doesn't work every time should give you confidence, because it means you're doing something that frightens others.

Generosity generates income. This works whether you are selling paintings or innovation or a service. Linus

Our economy now rewards artists far more than any other economy in history ever has.

Faking your way through isn't going to work. Hoping that the sales process will go away won't help either. As a bootstrapper you must sell yourself and your business. Otherwise, no business.

As we'll see, the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce. To create solutions and hustle them out the door.

We're all obsessed with ideas because ideas, not products, are the engine of our new economy.

Given the choice between building a thriving, profitable business with a niche and a really boring product and putting your life savings into an intensely competitive business where you're likely to fail but the product is cool, the experienced bootstrapper will pick the former every time. If you find an industry filled with wannabe entrepreneurs with a dollar and a dream, run away and look for something else!

The entrepreneur is comfortable raising money, hiring and firing, renting more office space than she needs right now. The entrepreneur must dream big and persuade others to share her dream. The freelancer, on the other hand, can focus on craft. She can most easily build her business by doing great work, consistently.