Quotes About Entrepreneurship

A small company like Nichia should do niche products.

When people ask what college I graduated from, I say: I didn't graduate from college. I graduated from Nike. I started my career as an intern getting coffee.

I always had that get-up-and-go to work for myself - I never wanted a nine-to-five job.

I've built 'The Conversation' from the ground up with no business training.

Running a fashion business takes the heart of a good gambler. You're always dealing with new things. And there's no guarantee that anything new is going to be successful.

A country that cannot support entrepreneurship has no hope.

Academically, I was never that interested. I skipped classes. My biggest dream was to have a coffee shop, but I had no idea how to get the money to do that.

I have no intention of making small bets.

There's no point in starting a business unless you're going to make a dramatic difference to other people's lives. So if you've got an idea that's gonna make a big difference to other people's lives, then just get on and do it.

There is no point mucking around and saying we are just going to have one or two shops and that's it... we are going to reach, you know, 40 shops around the world. I want 150 shops in China.

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If you're going to have your own, you have to know how to run a business.

That's the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.

Research suggests that in over 90 percent of all successful new businesses, historically, the strategy that the founders had deliberately decided to pursue was not the strategy that ultimately led to the business's success.

In the early stage, managers are puzzle solvers, not number crunchers. Passive

Clayton M. Christensen

Markets that do not exist cannot be analyzed: Suppliers and customers must discover them together.

Walkman cassette player was temporarily put on hold when market research indicated that consumers would never buy a tape player that didn't have the capacity to record and that customers would be irritated by the use of earphones. But Morita ignored his marketing department's warning, trusting his own gut instead. The Walkman went on to sell over 330 million units and created a worldwide culture of personal music devices.

Innovators were simply much more likely to question, observe, network, and experiment compared to typical executives. We published the results of our research in Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

Research has shown, in fact, that the vast majority of successful new business ventures abandoned their original business strategies when they began implementing their initial plans and learned what would and would not work in the market. 9

established firms attempt to push the technology into their established markets, while the successful entrants find a new market that values the technology.

In 1892, mine owner L. L. Nunn had hired the electrical wizard Nikola Tesla to build the world's first alternating-current power

Technology is not a defining feature. You can create blue oceans with or without it.

blue ocean strategy is a theory of market creation