Quotes About Entrepreneurship

Eighteen months after Netscape was created, and before it had made a dime, Netscape sold shares in itself to the public. On the first day of trading the price of those shares rose from $12 apiece to $48. Three months later it was at $140. It was one of the most successful share offerings in the history of the U.S. stock markets, and possibly the most famous.

Silicon Valley is to the United States what the United States is to the rest of the world.

Engineers created the wealth. And during the 1990s Silicon Valley had created a fantastic amount of new wealth.

Once he had identified the new new thing, all he needed was some really smart, passionate engineers to chase after it and make it happen.

As yet, there is no final reckoning of the wealth the Valley has created. Hundreds of billions of dollars, certainly; perhaps even trillions. In any case, 'The greatest legal creation of wealth in the history of the planet,' as one local capitalist puts it. The

The man who groped for the new new thing was in many ways ill suited for mainstream business.

Someone once said that the best technology is indistinguishable from magic. Clark now had the best magic act in Silicon Valley. The best magic act attracted many of the best engineers. In the Valley it often did. The Valley had given engineers a place where they could make their living outside the enormous gray corporations that expected them to conform. It

You didn't need to raise millions to build your product and in the process whittle your stake down to almost nothing. You found the concept, you wrote the software to exploit the concept, you sold the company to the public.

Once you were let into the Great Society of Sand Hill Road, you were given first crack at these miraculous enterprises at a small fraction of the cost to Wall Street investment bankers—never mind the general investing public.

The VCs could tolerate companies' going bust—they had so many of them—but they could not tolerate missing out on the new new thing.

What I'd like is to turn out like Jessica Simpson, with her whole brand.

Finding creative and effective ways to simultaneously give back and economically empower people is something that is increasingly important. Not everyone can open a business and directly create jobs in the way that we have at Red Rooster Harlem.

I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.

I don't want anyone to fail, so if you can make money off music even though you can't sing or dance, that's genius.

The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.

I am a businesswoman who goes to work every single day.

We, as entrepreneurs, can be held responsible for our actions every single day, not every election cycle.

Every single day, entrepreneurship has highs and lows, and you need to feel like you have a community around you. That is insanely important - to have a community of people around you lifting you up and who really know you.

There is a directory where you can explore every single person who has gone through YC and a private forum that only founders can participate in.

As founder of Eventbrite, I've interviewed almost every single person we've hired.

Whatever you do, don't sink your life's savings into cliche items.

We opened Panda Inn on June 8, 1973. The whole family - my parents, a brother and sister - all worked at the restaurant for free. We lived in a two-bedroom apartment in San Gabriel and didn't have any money.

We've always wanted to do a clothing line, and I personally love doing stuff with my sisters; I think it makes the whole process that much better.

My sisters and I are very hands-on with our collections. I am really passionate about kids' clothes.