Quotes About Entrepreneurship

Startups were thriving in Los Angeles when Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard were closer to the nursery than they were the garage.

Startups are often very undercapitalised, but I found that to be very beneficial because it forces you not to throw money at problems. Instead, you learn all the nuts and bolts of what you're doing and become an expert.

Starting a company is like throwing yourself off the cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

Many follow a rule of thumb - no more than 5% in one stock. But that's not the entrepreneurial road to riches.

Products are sold because they solve a problem or fill a need. Understanding problems and needs involves understanding customers and what makes them tick.

I figured out quick I had to write my own ticket. I realized I could tell stories and make money from it.

I knew exactly what I wanted to do since I could remember. As a kid, if my friends came round after school for dinner, I'd put on shows; I'd write plays and charge the parents £1.50 for a ticket for sweetie money.

Every sandwich I sold, the city got more sales tax, the state got more. But they came in and they would want to give me a ticket because I have a sign outside trying to get more business, right?

I've always been interested in photography. I remember when I was about 14, I spent an entire summer selling lottery tickets in some little booth so I could make enough money to buy an Olympus camera.

To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pioneer in the spirit of Bill Gates.

Both my parents were entrepreneurs and built a nice leisure business. But money was tight when I was growing up.

It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission

A business plan is a worthless piece of paper without someone rolling their sleeves up, getting their hands dirty and turning it into a living, breathing, operating business.

It's easier to get forgiveness than permission. If you wait for permissions and authorizations, your ideas will stall and never see the light of day.

Howard Schulz approached 242 people to raise money for Starbucks and was rejected by 217 of them.

Walt Disney was turned down for a loan for Disney theme parks 300 times.

Colonel Sanders went to 1,000 restaurants before someone bought his KFC chicken recipe.

We should do something when people think it's crazy, if people say it's good it means someone is doing it already. —Hajime Mitari, president of Canon

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

It is a story about entrepreneurship, and risk, and hard work, and knowing where you want to go and being willing to do what it takes to get there.

1st 90 days, 1st 365 days, & in the 5th year; an entrepreneur needs to have a very tight grip from day 1 on what all must be done to build a start-up

3 phrases to motivate for 1 cause i.e. Entrepreneurship: 1) Time & Tide wait for none 2) Fortune follows brave, 3) Trying is better than regretting

Do not make what you can sell, sell what you can make

Entrepreneurs give up sense of entitlement for school/university or how much money you were able to raise so far. Nothing succeeds like success.