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Quotes About Entrepreneurship

To be clear, she always admired hard workers: she just didn't see the point of laboring to benefit someone else. "If you're going to work hard," she used to say, "you might as well work hard for yourself.
~ Bridgett M. Davis
When it's too easy to get money, then you get a lot of noise mixed in with the real innovation and entrepreneurship. Tough times bring out the best parts of Silicon Valley.
~ brin sergey ii
Recognize that ultimate success comes from opportunistic, bold moves which, by definition, cannot be planned.
~ Bryan Burrough
The business of America is business,' said Calvin Coolidge
~ Hugh Brogan
You fellows ever thought of hiring out as a Christmas lights crew? You'd make a fortune.
~ Ilona Andrews
Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world.
~ Jack Ma
New startups embody the creativity, the innovation of young people, and for me, it was and is a very worthwhile experience to interact with them.
~ Ratan Tata
For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.
~ Paul Graham
The need to encourage entrepreneurship and ensure that young people have the opportunity to start new businesses is acute.
~ Edmund Phelps
The bad thing about young people starting a company is that sometimes they do it for the wrong reasons or because they have the wrong skill set, but the good thing is that they don't have any of the old paradigms baked into them, so they have a lot of the bright new ideas that are harder to come by as you get older.
~ Ben Horowitz
Atari showed that young people could start big companies. Without that example it would have been harder for Jobs and Bill Gates, and people who came after them, to do what they did.
~ Nolan Bushnell
The Internet can give young people a fantastic platform to become financially independent and have global businesses without leaving Russia.
~ Dasha Zhukova
You can make something big when young that will carry you through life. Look at all the big startups like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. They were all started by very young people who stumbled on something of unseen value. You'll know it when you hit a home run.
~ Steve Wozniak
I would always advise young people to follow their star - not my star. They have to live their own life. If they decide they want to go into the investment business, do it, but make it a better business than it is today.
~ John C. Bogle
The majority of people, especially young people, know Dr. Dre because of Beats by Dre, not necessarily from him being a rap artist.
~ Aja Brown
Our focused customers are small business and young people. We did a great job in China. How can we help those young people in India, in Pakistan, in Africa. If they can use in the same ways.
~ Jack Ma
We can all agree that we need to be helping small businesses. All of us can agree that the cost of higher education is too high, and college debt is too big of a burden for young people.
~ Ilhan Omar
Entrepreneurship is one of the most important drivers for job creation. Moreover, social entrepreneurship offers not only a path for young people to transform their own lives, but also a way to empower others.
~ Arancha Gonzalez
Fortunately, right now 'entrepreneurship' is one of the business world's biggest buzz words and so many young people in our country are looking up to this new generation of CEO's as their modern day rock stars. Whenever you have that effect, it makes the job of promoting entrepreneurship much easier.
~ Daymond John
We need to create an ecosystem which will make young people want to start their own company.
~ Xavier Niel
Young people in Israel are encouraged to design, produce and sell their products from high school. Technical universities also matter. Teach and introduce entrepreneurship courses in technical universities.
~ Dan Shechtman
I did all kinds of things as a young person to try to make money. I had a chicken operation - I sold chickens. I can remember going to high school football games as a ten-year-old and gathering Coca-Cola bottles, 'cause you'd turn them in and get a nickel. I wanted not to remain idle.
~ Charles Schwab
To any young person starting out on life and looking to make a quick fortune, I have this advice: forget banking, but go instead into security, scaffolding, or urban trench digging. Not in a hands-on way. I mean start a company.
~ Howard Jacobson
The great thing is that young talent isn't tied to a how-to model for starting a line; we get to find new ways to go about doing things. And don't let people tell you you can't. Go find a way to show that you can.
~ Alexander Wang