Quotes About Entrepreneurship

I like the challenge of growing small companies into big global companies.

My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.

I learned I'm not a good executive, I'm an entrepreneur and I'm creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do.

The best thing in business is to follow your gut. If a decision is not sitting well with you, don't just make it.

I could open up a little gym, and I would be blissfully happy.

It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.

Growth hacking is the future of marketing. It has to be.

Haiti is open for business!

I want to do my own line of Halloween costumes.

you are better off not using a general partnership in the first place.

Maxine did not have any money to contribute, but convinced Louise that she would contribute her first $5,000 in profits back into the business.

Whenever possible, use business credit cards or loans rather than personal credit, even if you have to give a personal guarantee.

all too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own. [2002] p.46

Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen

Women are going to be a huge force in developing Web and mobile companies.

Women are not going to start businesses because we tell them we don't have enough people of a certain group. People want to start businesses because it's a way of fulfilling their ambitions and dreams.

In Nigeria, along with its West African neighbor Ghana, women are now starting businesses in greater numbers than men.

Women are starting something like twice as many companies as men, but the money is primarily going to companies started by men.

There is still a perception that the way women are isn't necessarily what you need for the powerhouse start-ups.

I have won this lottery. It's a gigantic lottery, and it's called Amazon.com. And I'm using my lottery winnings to push us a little further into space.

The temptation, when you go into Kickstarter, is that the first three days are wonderful, and you believe you're a god. You go in your spreadsheet and think, 'If every day's like day one, we're going to have suitcases of money arriving at the front door.' Then, it dips into this slump.

My father did lots of things. He had an orange-juice factory. He did real estate. He did commercial selling. He was always up and about doing all sorts of weird and wonderful things and being adventurous. I always admired his self-discipline. He was very good at getting everything done. He was very tidy.

I always loved retail. I love the ideas behind it. I think small-business retail is one of the areas where capitalism works so wonderfully well.

You could be an 18-year-old girl in Tokyo wondering how you could ever break into fashion or beauty, so you follow your favourite designer or editor, see what their day comprises, where they go, who they meet, how they do it... If I were setting up my own label today, I would definitely do it through Instagram.