Quotes About Entrepreneurship

Def Jam is the reason why I started a label.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

Jimmy Iovine has been telling me since 2012 that I needed to start my own label with my own artists. This was when he first met me and 'Bandz a Make Her Dance' was first taking off.

If it wasn't for the TLC story, many artists would not have smartened up, and you wouldn't have the Lil Waynes and people with their own labels.

I want to show that you can be just as amazing as labels and compete as a business and work as a business even though you're an artist.

I'm the kind of person that when I saw a lack of African Americans in the apparel business, that was something I set out to do, and I lead by example.

Steve Jobs's first story involved connecting dots, and it began with a most unusual promise.

chant: "We need a _____ floppy; We need a _____ floppy!" Jobs agreed only to include a floppy drive on a later model. Still, the Japanese company Canon was impressed enough to invest $100 million in 1989 for a 16.7 percent piece of the company, giving NeXT important cash while it tried to roll out its computers. By then, however, much had changed in the

businessman. Though only fifty years old, the college dropout was a technology rock star, a living legend to millions of people around the world. In his early twenties, Jobs almost single-handedly introduced the world

By the summer of 1988, Bill Gates was the leading representative of a new breed of tycoon: the software superrich. Just as oil created a kind of royalty in the last century, "wildcat" programmers had emerged among the wealthiest self-made men in America. Paul Allen, who had left Microsoft because of illness, was worth megamillions. So were the founders of other leading software companies. At the age of thirty-three, Gates was the youngest billionaire in the United States.

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Emily was five months pregnant when she decided to open the bookstore. Friendship didn't have one, and it would be a way for Emily to read more and farm less. She sold off her farm equipment at a 50 percent loss and she rented out her unused land to Alabaster. Emily allocated most of her remaining gold to the construction of a small building in town. She named the store Friendship Books.

You are willing to work hard, but you want something with flexible hours. You have a baby on the way. Also, you're sick of bosses. You want to be your own boss, but you don't have much money to start a business.

You have to be ready for hard work and frugal spending to get the idea off the ground.

Successful entrepreneurs take who they are and what they already know and create surprising combinations.

a capacity for innovation is the hallmark of our species. Each of us was born to create—whether it's landscaping a garden, writing a blog, composing a photograph, inventing a recipe, developing an app, or starting a business.

The typical medium- or large-scale organization infantilizes employees, enforces dull conformity, and discourages entrepreneurship; it wedges people into narrow roles, stymies personal growth, and treats human beings as mere resources.

Deals aren't found. Opportunities are found. Deals are made." In

know value, find opportunity, and make deals. 7.

This is approached as a business and as such money and the issues of money must always be accounted for and respected. The big money issues to track are: 1. Gross closed income—How much money did we make? 2. Budget—How much money did we spend? 3. Net income—How much money did we earn as profit? 4. Agent compensation—How much do I (the agent) personally get to take home?

I want to start my own airplane business. I'm going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do, er, nostalgia trips to Arnhem - you know, where the old paratroopers used to go - and charge them about 20 quid a time.

I'm concerned a little bit with the culture of celebrating the fundraise. My dad taught me that when you borrow money it's the worst day of your life.

People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.

I tried to make money as a kid. I had a lemonade stand for about six weeks. I made no money. I had to burn it down and collect insurance.