Quotes About Entrepreneurship

There are lots of people building the next TransferWise, not in a sense of competing with us but in a sense of building large, successful companies that are doing something important. I just enjoy helping these founders navigate the journey.

Very often, if a founder is waiting around for someone else to tell him what to do, the company is near death.

I definitely will reach out to Cuban in the near future for advice going forward. Now that I'll be on the business side of things - and he's had a lot of success with that - that would be a guy to go to.

I'm just interested in building a company that doesn't necessarily change lives but adapts people's behaviour.

When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing.

In India, we have the opportunity to give innovation the kind of scale that no other country in the world can. Innovation is a necessity.

Sometimes, when you're building a company, out of necessity there's just a gazillion things you have to learn and figure out.

Starting my own label was more out of necessity. I'm not going to sit around and wait for labels to come screaming.

With ShamWow, I had to become my own distributor because no one wanted it. Out of necessity you become something you're not expecting. It was actually a blessing.

You must, as an entrepreneur - if that's your position - be doing things that really move the needle.

While seed deals have gotten easy, Series A negotiations still often feel like the death of 1,000 cuts.

We started Good Neighbor in like 2006? Right around the time that Kyle graduated college. And I was doing freelance editing.

A neighbour saw me, came round, and said I could earn another tenner if I did their garden. It wasn't long before I was doing everyone's gardens in the area and had my own little business. It got to the point where I even started employing one of my mates, who I paid 4 an hour.

While I was playing, I started a company that didn't work out. I got a taste of the business world and realized I'm not going to be a 9-to-5 guy in the office after football is over. When the opportunity came for television. I thought, 'Let's go for it,' even though it was nerve-racking. I enjoyed it.

I didn't have that when I invented MyPillow. I didn't have a safety net.

I built a great company, one of the - some of the most iconic assets in the world, $10 billion of net worth, more than $10 billion of net worth, and frankly, I had a great time doing it.

The lessons I learned starting Netflix - and over a lifetime of entrepreneurship - are broadly applicable to anyone with a dream.

IndieBio's capital, facilities, and deep mentoring by a network of biotech-specific experts have the potential to spawn the Google, Facebook, and Instagrams of biology.

Of course, I saw 'The Social Network,' which is a beautiful film.

I thought 'The Social Network' was fantastic.

For the first time, entrepreneurs can monetize their own open-source and peer-to-peer network. They can crowdfund and raise money from people across the world on the Internet in crypto-currency.

Whenever I talk to people who founded a company, I often like to ask the prehistory questions 'When did you meet? How long have you been working before you started the company?' A bad answer is, 'We met at a networking event a week ago, and we started a company because we both want to be entrepreneurs.'

VCs, angels and other networks help you validate your ideas.

I never stop thinking about names of products. It's a process that happens 24 hours a day.