Quotes About Entrepreneurship

This book, then, is a product of the last fifteen years, as well as a product of the fifteen years that preceded them. It was almost exactly eight years before The E-Myth was published that I founded our company, E-Myth Worldwide, which has provided the fuel and experience for the point of view I have shared with those of you who have read The E-Myth, and with those

Most business founders believe that the success of a business resides in the success of the product it sells.

That Fatal Assumption is: if you understand the technical work of a business, you understand a business that does that technical work.

I wonder' is the true work of the entrepreneurial personality." She tried to

In other words, pretend that you are going to franchise your business. (Note: I said pretend. I'm not saying that you should. That isn't the point here—unless, of course, you want it to be.)

Every year, over a million people in this country start a business of some sort. Statistics tell us that by the end of the first year at least 40 percent of them will be out of business.1

He was running the business for him, not for me.

if you understand the technical work of a business, you understand a business that does that technical work.

The purpose of going into business is to get free of a job so you can create jobs for other people. "The purpose of going into business is to expand beyond your existing horizons.

Don't you see? If your business depends on you, you don't own a business—you have a job.

productive and happy as possible. "And if I only indulge my preferences, I will never be able to replace myself with anyone other than another owner, someone just like me, someone with

The Entrepreneur's boundary is a function of how many managers he can engage in pursuit of his vision.

Contrary to popular belief, 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.

You can't sell it when you want to, because who wants to buy a job?

Your job is to commit to the process of becoming an entrepreneur and then to practice what entrepreneurs do so that entrepreneurship can find you when you've practiced enough to be ready.

It reveals an understanding of what makes a great business great. It also tells us what makes all other businesses survivable at their best; intolerable at their worst.

La empresa es el objetivo más creativo y emocionante al que podemos aspirar. También es extraordinariamente divertido… si se hace bien.

Microsoft was twelve years old before people started talking about Microsoft millionaires; Netscape was one and a half.

Silicon Valley in the late 1990s was the closest that business has ever come to resembling a child's chemistry experiment.

A year or so before he had bought and sold a million shares in @Home, and made a quick $45 million.

People like Justin Frankel and Daniel Sheldon linger on the fringe until they dream up something that has great commercial potential. Then some big company swoops in and buys them, or they give birth to the big company themselves.

These days the investment bankers came to Silicon Valley.

Healtheon was worth whatever investors felt like paying for it, and that depended largely on public opinion. Healtheon was running for president. The IPO was election day.

At other places management says, 'Well, gee, fellas, do we really want to bet the ranch on this deal?' Lewie was not only willing to bet the ranch. He was willing to hire people and let them bet the ranch, too. His attitude was: 'Sure, what the fuck, it's only a ranch.