Quotes About Entrepreneurship

I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.

I had to quit a 'real job' to start my first company.

Engineers and entrepreneurs are fundamentally dissatisfied with the way the world is and want to make it better. There are so many things you could do with technology if you can match it up with real problems.

I think there's real value in having a founder CEO. Obviously, I'm biased, but I'm driven by a purpose and a mission and a vision, not just profits.

It was amazing feeling to be able to be involved in invention, but not just invention - the creating of a marketplace that had real value to add.

What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.

I always told myself I was more than a football player, so every off season, I pushed myself to go outside the box and get a little bit better off the field. I dabbled in many business adventures to gain more real world experience.

We need to realise that entrepreneurship is not necessarily increasing employment.

I think most people who try to start a business, they realise very quickly that one of the biggest hurdles is having to be self-determined.

The major gripe I heard was from people who made beautiful cards but couldn't find envelopes to fit them. I realised that if I could provide a product that would make envelopes in any size and out of any paper, I could hit the jackpot.

I realised I had to work in something creative, but with a business and global element. And that I had to do it while I was still young and had an appetite for risk.

I realised that being a mother is similar to being an entrepreneur. You set up a system that is your family and you invest... you take risks and you actually have the most important job of rearing up the future of not just your family or an individual, but of the entire world. That is a tough and risky job.

Having my own label, I have to look at things in a realistic, bottom-line manner.

I started manufacturing bicycle parts. I come from a city called Ludhiana where almost everybody is self-employed, and either you make bicycle parts or bicycles, or hosiery parts or hosiery goods.

The next Google is more likely going to come from outside the U.S. Whether it's in Europe, I am not sure. A lot of things have to change.

I was ringside for Amazon and Google.

We couldn't buy Google on the IPO, but I knew I wanted to own it. I was gonna go big. It came out and went down a bit. I got distracted by something and didn't get in.

Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.

I have this desire to create things and build things, and Google has enabled me to build and create things and to build products that are used by people all over the globe.

I left Google after four years of working on Google Maps, search, and Google TV as a product marketing manager. I knew I wanted to do something on my own.

You will never build a company on the scale of a Facebook or a Google if you sell it along the way.

Google was a venture-funded company. Being part of that brings an energy to the company.

There's a reason why start-ups, especially disruptive start-ups - like Google or Amazon or Uber - are full of young people. That's because young people are not as wedded to the old fashioned ways of doing things.

I've been, like, the mom of Google.