Quotes About Entrepreneurship

... the thing we see wrong with YC apps most frequently, is that people have not thought about the market first and what people want first.

We have enough to do just trying to make our company what we want it to be. As far as whether I would like to own Marvel, sure, I'd like to own Marvel.

I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.

It's a lot easier to think of an app and write it than it is to convince people to want it.

I'm a big believer in free enterprise. If people want to try it, then go for it.

Every young person is going to be inspired to be a maker from now on. It's like how everyone used to want to be a musician, an actor, an athlete -- but a maker is what people are going to want to be.

I've never really thought of myself as an entrepreneur. I think of an entrepreneur as someone who wants to make a lot of money. That has never been at the top of my list.

People want the freedom. They want to be able to shop. If you don't like the shop trading hours and you're a shop owner, you don't have to open.

Feel free to cover Amazon any way you want. Feel free to cover Jeff Bezos any way you want.

For venture capital, one of the original principles is people you want to invest in are people who've done it before with someone else's money. Not people who've just came out of business school.

I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.

I don't have any great ambition to go out and make money. But I am still fascinated in starting up businesses and starting it in a way and running in a way that I want to do it.

Small-business people do not want to have more than 50 employees, because that's when all the regulatory burden of Obamacare kicks in.

The able bodied poor don't want or need charity.... All they need is financial capital.

There are many wrong reasons to want to be an entrepreneur. I think there's only one good reason: to change the world.

Making money never was my incentive. I just want to fight big companies.

The entrepreneurs who succeed usually want to make a difference to people's lives, not just their own bank balances.

Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

Whenever I see people getting a bad deal I want to step in and do something about it. Of course, this is not pure altruism - there's a profit to be made too.

like the twig furniture she made, thinking it was going to make us rich, only she's shit with a hammer and nails and the stuff ended up being deadly. You were practically begging for a colonoscopy if you sat on it.

A Nigerian librarian told me that her library offers art and entrepreneurship training classes

Do you wake up one day and say "hey honey, let's have a baby goat and guava jam business"?

A college boy from Massachusetts named Eli Whitney came south... Eli liked machines, and he liked solving problems.

I know a lot of people at some point in their business careers decide they'll just cash in and do something else, but for some reason, I've never had that feeling.