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Quotes About Entrepreneurship

The future belongs to chefs, not to cooks or bottle washers. It's easy to buy a cookbook (filled with instructions to follow) but really hard to find a chef book.
~ Seth Godin
Seth runs TheMarketingSeminar.com, which is the intensive workshop that this book is based on.
~ Seth Godin
It doesn't make any sense to make a key and then run around looking for a lock to open. The only productive solution is to find a lock and then fashion a key. It's easier to make products and services for the customers you seek to serve than it is to find customers for your products and services.
~ Seth Godin
The relentless act of invention and innovation and initiative is the best marketing asset.
~ Seth Godin
Sí, internet es una herramienta de descubrimiento. Pero no, nadie te descubrirá a través de ella. El impacto tendrás que crearlo uniendo a aquellos a quienes pretendes ofrecer tus servicios.
~ Seth Godin
Most entrepreneurs don't think about money too much when they decide to start a business. When's the last time you asked someone at a cocktail party what he does, and he responded, "Every month, I generate more cash than I spend"?
~ Seth Godin
The Hindu's first issue counted a grand total of eighty copies, printed with 'one rupee and eight annas' of borrowed money by a group of four law students and two teachers). In
~ Shashi Tharoor
One American newspaper wholesaler told The New York Times that the Indians "basically replaced the old Jewish and Italian merchants and they've filled a tremendous void because nobody will put in the fourteen and sixteen-hour days that they do quite willingly and that you have to put in when running a newsstand.
~ Shashi Tharoor
I want to help small businesses grow and thrive. I know how to make that happen. I spent my life in the private sector. I know why jobs come and why they go.
~ Mitt Romney
I've been an entrepreneur all my life, and my recent focus is on finding entrepreneurial solutions to address global challenges in healthcare and education.
~ Naveen Jain
All my life I knew I would have a big business. That's what I wanted from the time I was in second grade; there was never a doubt in my mind.
~ Paul Orfalea
I think you should do in life what you think you'll make a real difference at. And generally, as a businessperson, you do things you don't really have experience in.
~ Richard Branson
Because I don't see Virgin as a company but as a way of life and I fully enjoy it, I don't think I'll ever retire.
~ Richard Branson
To be successful in business and life, spot the possibilities while others look for problems.
~ Robin Sharma
Starting a business is like riding a wave between life and death. If you can hang on long enough, you're bound to succeed
~ Sam Altman
[On swinging for the fences] Ultimately, you have the potential to build a significant business with the potential to have a positive impact on millions of people's lives.
~ Steve Case
There's a couple of universal principles in life. One is, don't ever open a restaurant. One out of every two fails.
~ Susan Powter
Creativity is what will separate the winners from the also-rans in the emerging world of business - and life.
~ Josh Linkner
If, as is generally the case, the heirs are not equal to the demands which life makes on an entrepreneur, the inherited wealth rapidly vanishes.
~ Ludwig von Mises
Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.
~ Martin Sheen
Create the change you seek in the world. Be an ecopreneur. Launch your dream green business.
~ John Ivanko
Joe wants to buy the business that he has been in for all of these years, worked 10, 12 hours a day. And he wanted to buy the business, but he looked at your tax plan and he saw that he was going to pay much higher taxes
~ John McCain
Deciding that the company is wasting too much money on duplicated efforts and thus moving to a more centralized mode. Ten years later, we want to encourage entrepreneurship and we move back to decentralization.
~ Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Britain was "the nation of shopkeepers," a phrase that was not meant to flatter.
~ Arthur Herman