Quotes About Entrepreneurship

I got my own merch company. I sell shirts, hats, hoodie, socks.

When people think of the oil industry, they think of Rockefeller, much like when people think of the software industry, they think of Bill Gates.

There's nothing more frustrating than seeing cynics sit there and say, 'Well, nobody can make any more money because Microsoft and Intel own everything.' Is the software industry mature, or is it embryonic? I would say it's embryonic. There will be a hundred more Microsofts, not just one.

Most of what we do is software, Internet, and mobile. A fair amount of that is transactional.

United Bank Card, I picked that name in 1999 because it sounded like an established financial institution, and I was 16 years old in my parents' basement, so I needed a name like that. The moment we started building our own hardware and software and had our point-of-sale capabilities by 2008, that was the last message we wanted to send.

I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I started my own software company in high school and went to college to study entrepreneurship.

If you know how to make software, then you can create big things.

In high school, I started my first company, called M Cubed Software. We named it that because it was me and two other guys named Mike.

If you're trying to develop a new drug, that costs you a billion dollars to get through the FDA. If you want to start a software company, you can get started with maybe $100,000.

Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.

I know one business, and that's how to make software.

Paul Allen with Microsoft revolutionized the software industry.

In 1986, Microsoft and Oracle went public within a day of each other, and I recall telling one of my colleagues that the software business will become big. So I started working with software companies in the mid-'80s and never turned back.

We at Interscope put projects out with anyone we believe has a great idea and is a true talent, whether it's a musician, photographer, software developer, or technology innovator.

When I was trying to write a novel, I ran out of money, and I was delivering packages on a bicycle. And I finally connected with these guys who started a software company, and almost serendipitously fell into that. I felt like they were goofy guys and that I was a goofy guy.

In terms of what I wanted to do before I got into politics, I was a businessman. I ran a company that makes and sells infrared night vision military technology and solar technology, so I wanted to grow that company and pursue groundbreaking technology in each of those areas.

I'm concerned about what I see is the fetishization around entrepreneurship in Africa. It's almost like it's the next new liberal thing. Like, 'Don't worry that there's no power because, hey, you're going to do solar and innovate around that.'

When I first heard Ray Charles, he was a flop artist on a small label in California. He hadn't sold any records. And I bought his contract for $2,500.

We were licencees of Sara Lee Corp's air freshener brand Ambi Pur, which they sold to Procter and Gamble. So we handed it over to Procter and Gamble. Now we will introduce our own brand of air freshener.

When I was 8 years old, I sold garden seeds.

We've sold over 100,000 records so far, and we're an independent label.

My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that.

My first business deal was with my mother. I invested in chickens. I sold the eggs to my mother.

I've had business sense since I was very young. I sold chicken eggs when I was six.