Quotes About Entrepreneurship

When I was eight, I started what could be considered my first business, performing magic shows in Mexico City.

I educated myself and came back to Miami after law school, got married, and started a business.

Michael Bloomberg has yet to get his due for engineering the New York entrepreneurial ecosystem.

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.

One person I find fascinating is J.Crew's Mickey Drexler. I would love to get into that brain and see how it works.

Microsoft, Disney, Ford, Facebook, and a hundreds and thousands of other companies that affect us daily all began life as baby companies, aka start-ups.

I think few people in their lifetime have the chance to be involved in something like the creation of Microsoft - that's always going to be something I'm known for.

If Microsoft had never existed... The industry would probably be very fragmented.

If you can imagine what it's like to launch a business in the middle of a lawsuit - it's not an easy thing.

I come from a middle-class family, where you grow up thinking about government service. But when I went to Harvard, I saw that entrepreneurs and business leaders were just like me. It gave me a feeling that I could also do such things.

I grew up in Rayagada in Odisha, in a middle-class family. But I always had the entrepreneurial bug.

I am a businessman at the end of the day. I have grown up with Excel sheets. I start out writing my novel with spreadsheets and the milestones in each chapter highlighted.

Millennials are eager to make an impact, which makes them ideal for start-ups.

KIND has gone through many iterations as it deepens its social impact. When you're selling a million dollars a year, the impact you can have is very different than when you are selling over a billion dollars a year. Scale has allowed us to do things we never thought possible.

I actually almost made a million dollars while in high school.

Bobby Roode looks like a million dollars, great head on his shoulders for the business.

How to become a millionaire? Become a billionaire first.

By 25, I was a millionaire.

The biggest thing the money Infosys brought me is the freedom to do what I want. And what I want is to give millions more the opportunities I had.

People can easily make millions of dollars without much work in America.

No economic system is perfect. But the American Free Enterprise system has empowered millions of people in the past. I know, because I saw it with my own eyes.

When my husband Jonas and I started Auntie Anne's in 1988, we never expected or anticipated building an international pretzel franchise. It was the farthest thing from our minds.

That culture of frugality and discipline is really important for the Y Combinator mindset.

In every investment, before I get involved or invest, I always see what the mindset of the founder, the CEO, is.