Quotes About Entrepreneurship

One day, I'll open my own restaurant or do something related to food, though I can't cook to save my life.

Relative to all the start-ups out there, getting a valuation of $1 billion is rarely accomplished.

If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.

My choice of this business, and that I relatively enjoy innovation and research, is greatly related to my father.

From a relatively early age I got interested in business.

First of all, every new company today is being built in the face of massive economic headwinds, making the challenge far greater than it was in the relatively benign '90s.

Relatively few people should start companies.

Even if you're a relatively small player in search, that can still mean a company that's worth several billion dollars.

You may find it more relaxing to work with people just like you, but entrepreneurship is about finding new approaches to problems, and discomfort can be an important part of that process.

At 13 years old, I realized I could start my own band. I could write my own song, I could record my own record. I could start my own label. I could release my own record. I could book my own shows. I could write and publish my own fanzine. I could silk-screen my own T-shirt. I could do this all myself.

People still look for that elusive record deal, but you still can release records on your own, which is amazing.

Our job as leaders is to find those innovators and release their mojo - lean startup-style - to serve the American people better.

Ben Horowitz, he's the guy. He's really big into hip-hop, and he's a brainiac.

I don't like to be considered a 'hip-hop mogul.' I don't know what that means.

I'm not very good at business. I'm more of a creative, fun-loving hippie type.

I don't make money doing my podcast. I've learned that people want to hire creative people who are already doing something when they approach them.

When you're a younger company, you struggle, struggle, struggle with, 'How are we going to pay the bills, and how are we going to hire people, and how are we going to get a bigger office?' Just managing the company is so hard.

I think in general, people who aren't themselves entrepreneurs are often more risk averse. And I think you see this dynamic a lot with entrepreneurial people who lead a company, which is that they hire people who complement them.

I had never created my own business before. I had always been the gun to hire... But I had to finally say, nobody is going to give me my dream job, so I better figure it out myself.

Most of the time, when you need something at a company, you make it. If you want to sell a product, you create it. If you need a head of marketing, you hire one. If you want to create a great company culture, what do you do? The lack of a clear answer on this is why I believe most companies don't have a great culture.

When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.

In the early days, start-ups make the main mistake of hiring people to do the work that they could do themselves.

If I'm an entrepreneur and I have an idea, and I don't have the development talent around me but I need to find a developer, I would do my selection just like I would with hiring an employee.

I think people have at least two careers in them, so we decided to turn our hobbies of motorbikes, cooking and chatting into a living.