Quotes About Entrepreneurship

There's this famous observation that I totally believe: Great startup ideas are the ones that lie in the intersection of the Venn diagram of 'is a good idea' and 'looks like a bad idea.' So you want most people to think it's a bad idea and thus not compete with you until you get giant. But for it to secretly be good.

I'm not really sure where it comes from, but every time I meet someone who says 'I really want to be an entrepreneur' but has no idea what they want to do, I really just think: 'This person is totally aimless.'

Doesn't matter if you run a barbershop, pharmacy, or gas station, remaining independent in today's America is an uphill slog and the hill gets steeper with each passing year.

Henry Ford failed in business several times and was flat broke five times before he founded the Ford Motor Company.

Examples of such remarkable transformations abound throughout history. Henry Ford failed in business several times and was flat broke five times before he founded the Ford Motor Company.

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.

I'm not a businessman. I'm a business, man.

I always wanted to tell stories. From the time I had 20 cents or a quarter in my pocket, I could peddle my old Rambler 500 down to the corner store and buy comic books.

I wanted to build businesses from the time I was little.

If you're looking to become an entrepreneur then don't waste your time going to university or business school - just get on and do it.

In the '80's my gut feeling was that airlines were crap. I hated spending time on planes. I thought we could create the kind of airline I'd like. So we got a secondhand 747 and gave it a go.

I'm going to be in technology for a long time.

A head start is rarely large enough to matter, and time spent in stealth mode-away from customers-is unlikely to provide a head start. The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.

I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldnt do it, but it was probably the best thing Ive ever done.

My last real job was selling air time for CBS affiliates. I quit that when I was 28, and that was the last real job I had. I beat the system. I've been able to do this full-time for almost 15 years.

Any time you build a company designed to be sold, you ultimately get less value if it's sold.

I would say I used to spend 60 percent of my time just to raise capital, when I was growing.

I'd like to build my company and make a bigger company always, but I think in the behind the scenes arena is where I'd prefer to spend my time.

I've worked as someone's deputy, and now it's time for me to run something. It's time for me to run my own shop.

Entrepreneurship isn't about luck, it's about vision, time management, creativity, determination and goals.

For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.

I think that we're living in a time where there are trillion-dollar opportunities that never existed before.

Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70.

In 1979 I teamed up with my friend and business partner, Bill DeWitt, and together we formed an oil and gas company that invested through limited partnerships in oil and gas exploration.