Quotes About Entrepreneurship

Edison invented the lightbulb the way Steve Jobs invented the MP3 player: he wasn't the first, but he was the first to make something that took off in the marketplace.

The quality most desirable in a CEO? According to a global survey conducted by IBM of 1,500 top executives in sixty countries: creativity.

Go build it. If you really believe in something, you should just build it. If you love it, it won't feel like work. It's okay to drop out of college if you have an awesome idea.

I grew up always admiring business owners. I was always interested in knowing who pulled what strings. I've always been in love with the decision making process, not just the product.

Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don't do it.

I want to go to culinary school because I love cooking. One day I'd love to open up a restaurant or cafe

I love challenging the notion that, in order to be a tech founder, you have to be holed up in a dark room wearing a T-shirt and baggy jeans.

I love capitalism. It rewards me for being brave - it awards me for being innovative and thinking out of the box.

I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.

I would love to have my own lingerie line.

You cannot be pro-jobs and anti-business at the same time. You cannot love employment and hate employers.

The easiest way to make money is -create something of such value that everybody wants and go out and give and create value, the money comes automatically.

Se puede hacer dinero de la nada?

growth hacking creates a product that will market itself.

Entrepreneurial profit… is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production in exactly the same sense that wages are the value expression of what the worker "produces." It is not a profit of exploitation any more than are wages.

Every piece of business strategy… must be seen in its role in the perennial gale of creative destruction.

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

These "wise men" apparently thought setting up a small shop in the middle of a monster-infested dungeon was a fine idea.)

There's only one thing that all the successful companies in the world have in common: None was started by one person.

The death of the entrepreneur is solitude.

I put together an iPhone app called TrimIt and released that in July 2011. About a month later, the private fund of the Hong Kong billionaire Li-Kashing cold emailed me and expressed an interest to invest, but they didn't realize I was 15. They thought it was a U.K. company with a team.

I happen to like selling clothes as much as creating them. It isn't relevant unless it sells.

When you're starting your own business it's really important to think through your plan: what's the idea, why is it relevant to the market, how much money you are going to invest, how are you going to tell people about it.

Starting a business from scratch and having little money in the bank focuses your mind in a way that running a multibillion-dollar business never does. It brings the key drivers of performance into sharp relief. I promise.