Quotes About Entrepreneurship

Be an entrepreneur at work. An "entre-ployee." Take control of who you report to, what you do, what you create. Or start a business on the side. Deliver some value—any value—to somebody, anybody, and watch that value compound into a career.

Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur are the ability to fail, to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on them, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.

Choose to commoditize your labor or choose yourself to be a creator, an innovator, an artist, an investor, a marketer, and an entrepreneur.

Not everyone is an entrepreneur. Not everyone wants to be one.

There were about ten different areas I needed to improve and gradually I improved them all and sold the company a year later. EXPAND THE

Should I listen to venture capitalists? Yes, of course. They gave you money. But then don't do anything they ask you to do.

There's no way to know in advance if a business idea is a good one. Google started around 1996 but didn't make a dime of money until around 2001.

You no longer have to wait for the gods of corporate America, or universities, or media, or investors, to come down from the clouds and choose you for success. In every single industry, the middleman is being taken out of the picture, causing more disruption in employment but also greater efficiencies and more opportunities for unique ideas to generate real wealth. You can develop those ideas, execute on them, and choose yourself for success.

Robots are the new middle class. And everyone else will either be an entrepreneur or a temp staffer.

In this new era, you have two choices: become a temp staffer (not a horrible choice) or become an artist-entrepreneur. Choose to commoditize your labor or choose yourself to be a creator, an innovator, an artist, an investor, a marketer, and an entrepreneur.

I wrote a blog post about how the book is different from the blog and why I chose to go the self-publishing route. I wrote guests posts for blogs like Techcrunch, which helped immensely and for which I'm very grateful. I used my social networks: Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Google+, Quora, and Pinterest.

entrepreneurs can't use the excuse that "I don't have time, I'm running a business." This is your business.

There are lots of variations on the path to self-publishing; this is the one Kamal and I have both used. WRITE THE BOOK.

Some people will say, "Well, I'm just not an entrepreneur." This is not true. Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur are the ability to fail, to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on them, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.

Just being an entrepreneur, without having multiple sources of income, without first taking care of the risks, is suicide. G)

The only retirement plan is to choose yourself—to start a business or a platform or a lifestyle that allows you to put big chunks of money away. Some people can say, "Well, I'm just not an entrepreneur.

The real way to get wealth is to find a customer and perform a service for that customer. Then repeat.

Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur are an ability to fail, an ability to have ideas and to sell those ideas, the courage to execute on those ideas, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move on to the next adventure.

It might indicate what businesses to start. And for every one trend there are many different businesses you can start.

If a small town doesn't have a laundromat, and if you open one up, you can be pretty confident you'll have customers. If your laundromat is unique in any way, then perhaps you can scale it.

Come up with ten ideas you can write newsletters about.

Just being an entrepreneur, without having multiple sources of income, without first taking care of the risks, is suicide.

A Culture of Discipline. All companies have a culture, some companies have discipline, but few companies have a culture of discipline. When you have disciplined people, you don't need hierarchy. When you have disciplined thought, you don't need bureaucracy. When you have disciplined action, you don't need excessive controls. When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great performance. Technology

Hewlett Packard Chairman Built Company by Design, Calculator by Chance.