Quotes About Entrepreneurship

If you have a lot of what people want and can't get, then you can supply the demand and shovel in the dough.

Entrepreneurs are never satisfied. They want to do things better. They strive for perfection and use all the ingenuity to their command to achieve it.

After my death, I want to be remembered as Africa's greatest industrialist.

Jobs are for lazy people who don't want to invest in themselves.

Entrepreneur is not a job title. It is a state of mind of people who want to alter the future.

Anything that has to do with money, I want to be in that business.

Being an employee is a bad outcome. You want to avoid that. Being an employee is never a good outcome. That's just an opinion.

When you are starting a new business you don't want to go after giant markets. You want to go after small markets and take over those markets quickly.

Young entrepreneurs should spend an awful lot of time thinking about what they want to go into.

I'm a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I'm doing. I don't want to work for other people forever.

The network marketing industry offers many unique benefits to those who want more out of life.

I decided at the outset to invest in a fairly broad range of businesses, as I didn't want to get pigeonholed into one sector.

I'm big into fashion, so after swimming, when I hang up the Speedo, I definitely want to get into fashion and start designing my own clothing line.

When asked why a man sixty-nine years old, who had spent most of his life manufacturing and selling small household appliances, should suddenly at the end of his career fling himself into the construction of a major building, Mr. Clark replied, "To make money.

Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions.

On the cover of Business Month, Gates's head would be satirically airbrushed onto a weight lifter's torso above the legend "The Silicon Bully: How Long Can Bill Gates Kick Sand in the Face of the Computer Industry?

No successful business was ever made without someone taking a chance, no successful person got to where they are without taking risks, and no endeavor ever succeeded without people taking a gamble.

If you cannot get a job then make a living for yourself.

Residual income is passive income that comes in every month whether you show up or not. It's when you no longer get paid on your personal efforts alone, but you get paid on the efforts of hundreds or even thousands of others and on the efforts of your money! It's one of the keys to financial freedom and time freedom.

Eighty-five percent of small businesses in this country fail within the first two years. Eight-five percent! That's a whole lot of failure. Warren Buffett said that he would not invest in any business where the owner hasn't failed at least twice. I love that truly wealthy and successful people understand that failure is part of the process.

I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.

With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.