Quotes About Entrepreneurship

Run with what works: Sell to the people who believe in you and are willing to take the chances and make the experience happen.

When you look at billionaires, many of them share one characteristic: They were not born billionaires.

I've set up businesses. I've set up charities. I have actually done the work myself.

As an entrepreneur, I like cutting to the chase and getting things done.

We want people who work for us to be entrepreneurs. We like them to look at ideas. We like them to chase ideas. We like them to not be what I call a caretaker of an asset.

When I pick my subcommittee chairmen, I look for people that understand what it's like to run successful businesses, who know what it's like to sign the front of the check instead of the back of the check: somebody that gets it.

I'm very involved in Shred, constantly checking in on something. It takes a lot of time. But it has let me leverage who I am as an athlete into a product.

If I wasn't an actress, I'd be a chef. I'd love to open a restaurant.

Essentially, for me, the whole point of being a chef is to have your own restaurant.

The feeling, the sensation behind it is, it's exciting to cherry pick and select and be your own boss and to be in control of your own brand; however, it's a lot of work.

It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.

One of the biggest reasons entrepreneurs don't succeed is because they have too many chiefs. You've got to bring in the right people to make the right decisions.

The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism.

When we started out, you could design a chip with a few guys in a basement.

From now on, I approach the cinema as a business woman.

It's not easy to have success with restaurants in different cities, but I like the challenge.

Jeremy Clarkson wants to become a farmer - he's bought a field - Hammond wants to open a supermarket, and I'd like to spend my days owning a shoe shop.

I started in the supermarket business in the early '70s. And by '75, '76, I realized you don't have a business unless you own the real estate.

Remember, restaurateurs are only shopkeepers; that's all we are. It's no different from the supermarket down the road.

Certainly some hosts on Airbnb are opening up their spare bedrooms to meet new people; and some drivers use Uber to carpool with strangers for the companionship. But the most productive members of each community are professional operators, making available their homes or cars as a way to earn or supplement a living.

I was the founder of the 'Cartoon Bank' in the '90s. I was interested in finding ways for cartoonists to supplement their incomes.

I endorsed supplements for about 15-20 years and made a lot of people a lot of money, so I figured I should do my own line and make my own money.

Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.

We see entrepreneurship and small businesses and supply chains as a critical part of the economic growth and competitiveness agenda.