Quotes About Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs in the United States and Europe finally figured out how to separate aluminum from minerals cheaply and also how to produce it on an industrial scale.

My sister and I had a lemonade stand - with a two-drink minimum.

Being an entrepreneur isn't easy, but it's even harder for minority and women-led companies.

The minute I went into business, I was a success, and I've done well ever since.

We who live in capitalist countries tend to take all of this—property rights, free-market pricing, entrepreneurship—for granted, but every socialist country that has ever existed in the world has taken away these key ingredients of capitalism and has consequently created an economic catastrophe.

America is still the land of opportunity. Over the past thirty years I have consistently found that 80 to 85 percent of millionaires are self-made.

Interestingly, self-employed people make up less than 20 percent of the workers in America but account for two-thirds of the millionaires.

Victor wants his children to have a better life. He encourages them to spend many years in college. Victor wants his children to become physicians, lawyers, accountants, executives, and so on. But in so encouraging them, Victor essentially discourages his children from becoming entrepreneurs.

After twenty years of studying millionaires across a wide spectrum of industries, we have concluded that the character of the business owner is more important in predicting his level of wealth than the classification of his business. But

I don't own big hats, but I have a lot of cattle.

most millionaires generally don't limit themselves to stocks, bonds, and related investments—they invest heavily in private businesses and real estate.

Many successful business owners have told us that they enjoy short periods of rough times in their chosen industries because they weed out much of the competition.

PAWs need to achieve, to create wealth, to become financially independent, to build something from scratch.

Eighty percent of America's millionaires are first-generation rich.

La asunción de riesgos es la leche materna del capitalismo. The Wall Street Journal

Las personas cometen errores en todos los ámbitos del emprendimiento humano, pero cuando se cometen grandes errores en una economía competitiva, aquellos que estuvieron equivocados pueden ser forzados a salir del mercado por las pérdidas resultantes.

Muchos, incluso hoy, atribuyen con frecuencia el alto nivel de ganancias a los altos precios cobrados por personas motivadas por la «avaricia». La realidad, sin embargo, es que la mayoría de las grandes fortunas de la historia estadounidense ha resultado de la capacidad de alguien para reducir costes, y al mismo tiempo cobrar precios más bajos y por tanto ganar un mercado masivo para su producto.

To launch a business means successfully solving problems. Solving problems means listening. - Richard Branson

You have to spend a lot to make a lot. It's not like I'm sitting on top of a pile of money.

wise words of Mark McCormack in his book What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School: "Creativity in business is often nothing more than making connections that everyone else has almost thought of. You don't have to reinvent the wheel, just attach it to a new wagon.

To become a brand, you've got to become relentlessly focused on what you do that adds value. And I promise you can add value to whatever job you're doing now. Can you do what you do faster and more efficiently? If so, why not document what it would take to do so and offer it to your boss as something all employees might do? Do you initiate new projects on your own and in your spare time? Do you search out ways to save or make your company more money?

Our careers aren't paths so much as landscapes that are navigated. We're free agents, entrepreneurs, and intrapreneurs—each with our own unique brand.

Creativity in business is often nothing more than making connections that everyone else has almost thought of. You don't have to reinvent the wheel, just attach it to a new wagon.

Take your skill, combine them with your passions and find out where in the market or within your own company, they can best be applied