Quotes About Entrepreneurship

I was 12 years old and in summer camp. I started a company called Aardvark Industries, which provided basic services to camp counselors.

My grandma had a kids' clothing store for over 30 years called Shannon and Company, and my sisters and I used to go and work there in the summers.

I got an email from the Crown Prince of Norway asking me to talk at a summit for young Norwegian entrepreneurs. I ran to my wife and was like, 'Hey! I got an email from the Prince of Norway!'

I decided to launch a fragrance because Aeropostale approached me about creating one, and it's something that I kind of always wanted to do but didn't think it would actually happen. So when I heard I had the opportunity to create my own perfume, I got super excited.

I never knew I would go this far, but I was told by people it wouldn't happen, and now I own four restaurants, and I have one of the best shows on the Food Network. I'm living in the Super Bowl of food.

I trust a good deal to common fame, as we all must. If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Over the years, they had tuned the walk, prying up an A board and nailing it here, lifting up an F board and pounding it back down there until the walk was as near onto being melodious as weather and two entrepreneurs could fashion it.

El éxito de Trump ha sido el de formar una coalición con la comunidad empresarial, igual que entonces: los fascistas solo llegaron al poder con el apoyo de una amplia coalición conservadora que incluía al empresariado.

Entre 1995 y 2005, por ejemplo, los inmigrantes fundaron el 52 por ciento de todas las nuevas compañías de Silicon Valley.[41] Y fundaron, a su vez, más del 40 por ciento de las empresas incluidas en 2017 en el listado Fortune 500 de Estados Unidos.[42]

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem & turned it into an opportunity.

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

Steve Jobs: "The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done. Jobs responded by scoffing, "Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?

You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.

Yes, we want a Silicon Valley," she said, "but do we really want three hundred million people who actually think for themselves?

These days it's easier and less expensive to just try out your ideas than to figure out if you should try them out.

You don't get rich by saving your thinking."

This start-up looks as if it could not fail, but the base rate of success in the industry is extremely low. How do we know this case is different?

probably contributes to an explanation of why people litigate, why they start wars, and why they open small businesses.

Even when they are not sure they will succeed, these bold people think their fate is almost entirely in their own hands. They are surely wrong: the outcome of a start-up depends as much on the achievements of its competitors and on changes in the market as on its own efforts.

It is tempting to explain entrepreneurial optimism by wishful thinking, but emotion is only part of the story. Cognitive biases play an important role, notably the System 1 feature WYSIATI.

In this view, people often (but not always) take on risky projects because they are overly optimistic about the odds they face. I will return to this idea several times in this book—it probably contributes to an explanation of why people litigate, why they start wars, and why they open small businesses.

Give your due diligence to understanding business or you will have no place in it.

There is only one way to make money: finding out what other people want or need and then providing those things to as many of our fellow humans as possible.