Quotes About Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is a real test of once conviction

Most entrepreneurs think that insufficient capital goes against them. You die due to indigestion, not due to hunger. Necessity is the mother of invention.

Top 7 things for an entrepreneur are: passion, vision, obsession, salesmanship, compassion, contagious energy and resilience. If you have them, you will be able to withstand any weather.

The word 'Spanx' was funny. It made people laugh. No one ever forgot it.

I'm just like so many women - I was frustrated, I had these white pants that I had spent a lot of money on, and you get home and you think, 'What am I really supposed to wear under this?' So it was a frustrated consumer moment.

My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.

When I was 7, I came up with the idea of 'charm socks.' My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school.

I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.

The financial databases didn't show any buzz about whatever unique hardware Reggie had created. It could be that he was successfully keeping a lid on it. Or maybe, despite his bold speech, his Skyrocket had proved a dud

People tell you keep your job, start the company on the side. If I'm doing it on the side, then probably one of the reasons it fails is because I didn't dedicate enough time to it.

Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop... Sometimes after some bad auditions I think, you know what - time to open that scone shop! Let's start baking.

I think this is also a great time to invest in private equity, helping companies grow from the ground up.

There has never been a better time in the history of time than right now to start a business.

When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

If I had a brick for every time I've repeated the phrase Quality, Service, Cleanliness and Value, I think I'd probably be able to bridge the Atlantic Ocean with them.

I couldn't figure out what to wear under my clothes. The body shapers were too thick at the time.

If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business.

I've been designing my own pieces for a long time. My mother's a jewelry designer, so we knew at some point we were going to do a line and dive into the fashion world.

Entrepreneurship is not really building a product, it's not having an idea, it's not being in the right place at the right time. It's fundamentally company building.

I once read that more millionaires per capita were created during the Great Depression than at any other time in history.

I think in terms of businesses, in terms of things that are really big and marry technology with entertainment. That's where I like to spend my time.

The startups that do well are the ones that are working all the time.

Self-employed - which was even better. After all, I had the best boss in the world. Even if she was a bit of a Tyrant (Iduna)