Quotes About Entrepreneurship

People always ask is it hard being an entrepreneur and a mum, and the answer is 'yes.'

At the age of 15, in Navi Mumbai I had my own dance studio and 700 students were there.

The idea for The Muse came from my own life, from a product that I wanted but couldn't find anywhere. Sometimes when you see a need for something in your own life and you can't get it, you feel crazy enough to make it happen yourself.

My biggest failure was trying to start and run a music label. The music industry was dying, and I wasn't ready to help other people the way that they needed to be helped. I was trying to, and I was stifling myself with it.

I'm finishing building a house and setting up a shop to build custom electronical musical instruments.

I don't complain about other people's game - I just create my own.

I never wanted to work for anybody else; I always wanted to be my own boss.

When I work for someone else, I always make money for them. When I back my own ideas, I am bound to lose.

I had an awful lot of my soul invested in Atari culture.

As a wife, daughter, friend, and the founder and CEO of LearnVest, my schedule is anything but simple. But I learned early on how meticulously manage my time.

In general, I have a lot of issues with the mythology of the founder.

One of the myths you see in entrepreneurship is that people have this dream one night, wake up the next morning, and start building it. It's actually much more of an iterative process.

I named the company Kenneth Cole because I didn't have a lot of time to make up a name.

I hired a guy named David Sze to do consumer investing at Greylock. And he went on to invest in Facebook and LinkedIn. So I guess I did something right.

During the last years of university I started an online business with a couple of friends selling domain names - we started by cybersquatting and then we became a real business. Someone bought us after three years and we made a good deal.

The act of founding a company is its own act of narcissism: 'I alone can do this.'

For my first restaurant, I wanted to do something very special and close to my heart. Nashville felt like the place.

I don't like the fashion world. It's too nasty, too rip-off, too hard. And now it's all Gucci and Prada; it's very difficult to make your own business.

My entire youth has been Nasty Gal. My entire future is Nasty Gal.

a then-unknown engineer named Ren Zhengfei established an electronics trading company called Huawei.

Bob Noyce, the leader of the "traitorous eight," who had a charismatic, visionary enthusiasm for microelectronics and an intuitive sense of which technical advances were needed to make transistors tiny, cheap, and

Because if you're going to make a small inexpensive computer you have to sell a lot of them to make a lot of money. And we intend to make a lot of money.

As for the name of the theory behind selling enough stock to become millionaires, Richman told me, "I don't know how you put it in the vernacular. We called it the Fuck You Theory.

You can make a lot of money from a book, but that is done by using a book as a marketing tool.