Quotes About Entrepreneurship

We can support innovators and entrepreneurs.

On AngelList, we get 100 new companies created a day. That's an insane flood.

My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.

I think when you start talking about selling a company or a company wants to buy you, then you start thinking about how much money you're going to have. That's insidious because it saps your will to continue.

My role now is as an artist and as a mogul to inspire and give others opportunities.

It is extremely gratifying to see success like exhibited by the founders of Instagram!

Instagram is a place for businesses to build their business.

If you are passionate about entrepreneurship like I am, you too can instill this passion in your children.

There's no training for the business, no credentials necessary to enter... It's all about entrepreneurs, innate street intelligence, and instincts. It's a business which encourages people with dreams. That's the essence of Hollywood.

When trying to start a company, your enemy isn't criticism, anger or insults. Your enemy is apathy.

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing.

I would consider selling the whole company; I wouldn't like to sell just part of it, but on the other hand, I have a grandson intent on following my footsteps and another grandson in another couple of years.

It was always the intention that Shriram would have started a bank at some point.

I am a big believer that you can have a successful business and give back; it's just about the intention behind starting your business.

My early interactions with VCs were really, really poor.

I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.

Softbank has always been a service firm, and with the Internet, services became the center of the technology industry.

Once I found out that people were really making careers for themselves off the Internet, independently, I was really inspired.

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

You know, you don't have to have money to be a successful businessperson. You don't need a college degree. You just need a lot of common sense backed up by a willingness to work hard.

Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.

working too long for other people can blunt your desire to take risks.

The follow-through, the execution, is a thousand times more important than a 'great idea'. In fact, if the execution is perfect, it sometimes barely matters what the idea is. If you want to get rich, don't sit around waiting for inspiration to strike. Just get busy getting rich.

There is absolutely nothing more likely to dampen the prospects of becoming rich than a nice, fat, regular salary check.