Quotes About Entrepreneurship

I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.

If I said I was going to make a newsletter that made $2-$3 million a year, no one would question me. If I say, 'It's a blog,' everyone questions me.

I wish more LPs would blog to help VCs and entrepreneurs understand them better.

Do I think there's going to be a business in blogging? Yes.

There is a big difference between using V.C. money that you blow and spending your own personal money.

It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.

Mindtree began as an internet systems integrator when the dot-com boom was going on.

I was just born into a business family. It is really a destiny.

I'm just not the best employee, and I came to terms with that very young, and I realized that if I was going to be successful then I'd have to be my own boss and take control of my life.

The reason I wanted to do a webcomic was that I could be my own boss, and I could call the shots myself.

When you become your own boss, and your artwork becomes your livelihood, it becomes the only thing you think about.

I became my own boss once I entered showbusiness and started paying my own taxes.

If you are an entrepreneur, you have to think outside of the box.

I always had a vision about beauty in general, so probably that's what really drove me into that direction of creating a makeup brand.

It's the power of the brand. We've never formally advertised.

I'd love to build a brand, a legacy.

Definitely, starting my own brand would be really exciting.

Wouldn't it be so cool if we could use the Internet to build a better beauty brand?

Airbnb started with 'air bed and breakfast.'

I meet a lot of people with my BBC Breakfast job who have great businesses.

Coming up with novel ideas and converting them into real products has always been as natural as breathing for me.

If the business were a play, Act One is, 'Woohoo, bright and bushy-tailed. We're going to make something great!' Act Two is, 'We're six months behind on back-end development.'

Look at what is broken in society, figure out how to make it better, and then, around that, formulate a business.

No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.