Quotes About Entrepreneurship

Although I was not a crafter before starting the business, I find it relaxing.

I wanted to help my sister, Latoya, because she's an awesome cook. She's one of the best culinary people I've ever met. She makes awesome cakes, so I was thinking about starting a little coffee shop cafe where she could sell them. I want to open a little, small, mom-and-pop place, but she can also do catering, too.

I had always thought of starting my own record company. I haven't regretted the decision - yet!

Modeling can be a bit brain damaging. Starting my own brand was what I needed to do. I only model if there are such good jobs that you don't want to say no to. All that dressing up makes me say, 'What do I want to wear?' and, 'What do I want to do with Topshop?' It all kind of leads into the other things.

I try not to dwell on big mistakes but to move on when I make a mistake. I make mistakes most of the times and that's part of the risk profile being an entrepreneur. I guess one big mistake I did was not to start my own company earlier. I spent nine years working for others before starting Kazaa in 2000.

What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.

It is human nature, especially as we get older, to look for stability in our lives. But if you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you have to fight against that somewhat, as starting a business requires movement. You cannot stay still.

Learning how to interact with customers is something that anyone starting any business must master. It's an amazing opportunity to be able to learn the ropes at an established company and then employ your expertise at your own company.

Work-life balance for founders doesn't look like work-life balance for everyone else. Starting a company isn't a nine-to-six job - or a nine-to-nine job, or a nine-to-midnight job.

Aside from my modelling, by the early Nineties I was also starting to work as a photographer, which I loved.

As a kid, I harbored this fantasy of starting a company. I looked at the entrepreneur column in Forbes. I looked at it every month and thought, 'I want to be that guy.'

At age 28, I had no retail experience, no consumer marketing experience and no real Internet experience. But I decided I wanted to work for myself. I felt starting a company would enable me to get the responsibility I deserved and that I couldn't do that within the confines of a bigger company.

The business model is both the starting point and the scorecard for Customer Development progress.

Getting anything off the ground is going to require a little bit of risk. That risk starts with sharing the idea.

An entrepreneur is not a person who starts a company, but he is the person who actually solves a problem.

Properly defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.

Networking is all about connecting with people. But then again, isn't that what life is about? The more time you can find to get out of the office and build true friendships, the farther your startup will go. Entrepreneurs need to remember to spend as much time working on their business as they do in their business.

Every startup should address a real and demonstrated need in the world - if you build a solution to a problem lots of people have, it's so easy to sell your product to the world.

If you're trying to get to profitability by lowering costs as a startup, then you are in a very precarious and difficult position.

A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far - experienced father.

One of my first investments was $100,000 in a Web-based calendar startup - and I lost every dollar.

When you get involved in a startup, you have to be passionate.

The economic costs of starting your own business can be significant; in fact, most new startup companies fail because of undercapitalization.

Launching a successful product or startup has little to do with luck. Any business that gains traction on the market is the result of very careful strategizing and market analysis, not to mention the development of an original product or service.