Quotes About Entrepreneurship

Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop.

My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that's what we're doing with SumZero.

It's incredible how much money you can make on a rubber toy.

I decided I could develop a toy and get some revenue from that and then use that revenue to really become an inventor and work on some of the more challenging projects I had in mind.

I spent some time studying Toyota, because how could a loom maker - they made looms. That was their business for 50 years, 35 years - and then they decided to go into the car business after everyone else was in the car business.

After building most of Mint.com's prototype by myself, I talked to anyone and everyone I knew about Mint. It's counter-intuitive, because you might fear someone will steal your idea, but it's the only way to make connections, be sure you're on the right track, and provide a solution for an audience broader than yourself.

Ultimately the clothing company is a large investment on my part, and I'm taking a huge gamble. But having a focus away from the track is good for you.

Sell your intellectual property based on a track record of success and innovation.

Now I'm in a position where I can invest in startups and take up challenges. Some things do well and some don't, but I think my track record has been interesting.

Who else is putting seven figures down for unreleased rap tracks?

I always shout out my dad. My artistic roots come from him. He had his own T-shirt company and taught me the trade.

As the founder and former chief executive of two publicly traded companies, I have had a great deal of exposure to how debt markets work.

You can't fool yourself anymore that your art is your art. When you're not getting paid for that song that's being traded back and forth among millions of people on the Internet, you have to think like a businessperson.

I make a lot more off the trades and Image than Marvel.

I had an extremely boring time doing 20 to 30 trades a day while everyone was talking about baseball or basketball. So I stood there fantasizing about a device that could do the same thing I was doing.

I set up my own trading center in my Cabot dorm room... with my computer, my fax machine, and my telephone.

The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony.

I actually think we need to put our energies, as entrepreneurs, as technology inventors, as government, to being much more inclusive. I think the key thing is actually working together.

I think this land may bee profitable to those that will adventure it.

Space travel will be like every other business. There will be competitors. . . . Thirty months from now, I'm confident we'll be flying people into space.

I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit.

He hoped to find some new method of making a living and aspired to become a professional breeder of ferrets.

How did we start up a nation from nothing and transform it into a nation of start-ups? The answer lies in a paradox: having nothing was at once our greatest challenge and our greatest blessing of all.

Entrepreneur-Every New Thought Risked Effortlessly Past Resistance Energizing Numerous Eventually Useful Returns.