Quotes About Entrepreneurship

When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!

In the new economy, we all have to be entrepreneurs with our own lives - with all the rewards and risks and, yes, anxieties that entails.

I think the culture and DNA of our organization is to take risks.

You know what? Starting a car company is risky.

Yes, fashion adds more risk, but you don't have to have as much of it to keep the business rolling.

A lot of guys would prefer to go the business route by getting as much as they can for the least amount of risk than to actually put everything on the line.

I want to be doing something where I'm running my own show.

Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.

I always remember the fact that all businesses are for sale if you bring them the right number.

I knew nothing about sales, marketing or how to run a company. Nor did I have a desire to do any of those things.

I made the first sandwich before entering college.

Start-ups should be hunch-driven early on and data-driven as they scale.

If I'd really known how hard I was going to have to work behind the scenes to have any kind of business, I think I would have stopped.

The moment I say I'm going into scooters, they say, 'You're crazy.' Six months later, when BMW comes out with an electric scooter, it's fine. But when Anand does it, because he's some small guy in India, it's not fine.

We look for the scrappy entrepreneur: the kind of person who will get things done without looking to spend money right away.

The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.

That Will Never Work' is my chance to share all the secrets I've accumulated in a 40 years career as a entrepreneur - secrets that can help anyone turn their dream into a reality.

We almost owe it to ourselves to go experiment in the consumer area.

Before I started WeWork, I owned a baby clothing company based in Dumbo, Brooklyn.

My mother's last name, maiden name is Hogue. She is Cherokee and African. My grandfather, Dave Hogue, owned 300 acres of land in Marion, Alabama. He was an entrepreneur and someone I looked up to as a kid a lot.

My father was a chef but hadn't owned his own business. I didn't like that. In my heart of hearts, I knew I wanted to be in business.

My best friend Jerry started a boat-washing business, and it was one of the most critical experiences of my life. I got to meet a lot of people who were entrepreneurs. My parents were schoolteachers, and I was now meeting people who owned companies. I realized that if this guy can do it, why can't I?

I had not starred in an independent film and it's about a woman who owned a hair salon.

My dad owned a propane company in Oklahoma.