Quotes About Entrepreneurship

Do you think we need a real CEO? Answer you're looking for: "Maybe, someday. But probably not right now. What you really need right now is a great product.

Entrepreneurship is at its best when it alters the future, and it alters the future when it jumps curves.

Andrew Carnegie was an inventor only in the sense that he adopted and adapted the discoveries of others.

As in all branches of the retail trade, the key to success was skill at sales.

People who live in poor countries have to be entrepreneurial even just to survive.

Many people have serious academic degrees but cannot find a job, and sadly their degrees are so limited that they cannot even think about how to create a job for themselves.

The first clothing line I had was called Very Rue. Then we changed the name and moved to QVC, and the name became A Touch of Rue.

There are people who are genetically made to start record labels, and I'm not one of those people. People just have it in their blood and are good at it. Corey Rusk from Touch and Go and Ian MacKaye. These are people who have made their own labels.

I've been in navigation systems, robotics, restaurants, communications systems, touch screens, and now I'm back in games. I like to say I have five-year A.D.D.

There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'

At Uber, we say, 'Always be hustling.' Even if you are an introvert and you haven't got hustle in you, you better get a co-founder who does. And if you haven't got enough hustle to find a co-founder who's got hustle, it's going to be tough. You've got to have a little hustle in you.

Every entrepreneur has to deal with hardship, but if we're tough enough and thoughtful enough, we can find a way to make hard things make us better.

The music and airlines businesses are tough, but I've been successful in them.

I know how to do science. I know how to make things. I don't know how to run a company. Now that's a really tough job.

I get bored very fast, so I would like to do something new. Something like a restaurant is attractive. It does seem to be a very tough job though.

When I was growing up in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, I sold doughnuts, popcorn and Kool Aid every day after school so that my family had some money and I could pay my school fees. It was a tough life.

The toughest decision is always whether to open a restaurant. Two or three bad months, and you could be out of business.

Raising capital is not the toughest part. The toughest part is building a great team and making sure it's growing with the company.

Being my own boss and working inside an industry that's not really an industry, I need to keep busy and keep working. The only way to make money in music - unless you're managing someone - is to tour, and even that depends on where you are at.

Tourism provides employment to the poorest of the poor. Gram seller earns something, auto-rickshaw driver earns something, pakoda seller earns something, and tea seller also earns something.

I wake up every day, I deal with hundreds of thousands, or millions, of dollars. I fund my tours by myself. I do merch by myself. I employ people. I have my own successful company.

To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'

My daughter has no interest in succeeding me in the business. She is going towards social entrepreneurship, an area she is interested in.

I might have made more money if I had outsourced to India, and I knew I'd find it easier to hire senior managers in London. But I wanted to be in Stoke. What could be more satisfying than creating work for 3,000 people in my home town?