Quotes About Entrepreneurship

WHAT INTERESTING THING ARE YOU WORKING ON? WHY IS THAT INTERESTING TO YOU? WHAT'S SURPRISING ABOUT THAT? IS ANYBODY ELSE THINKING ABOUT THIS?" These are common questions

Los trabajos interesantes son los que creas tú.

No te preocupes por cuál será tu trabajo… Haz cosas que te interesen y, si las haces bien de verdad, encontrarás la manera de templarlas con una buena oportunidad de negocio"».

Over the ensuing days, however, I realized that everyone seemed to be discussing how to build large and successful companies, sell out, and live the good life. Fair enough. The question no one really seemed to be asking or answering was, Why do it all in the first place? What is the pot of gold that justifies spending the best years of your life hoping for happiness in the last?

NR: To think big but ensure payday comes every day: cash flow first, big payday second.

Si os diera cien millones de dólares, ¿qué crearíais? Algo que no tuviera ningún sentido que otros copiaran".

Es autor de tres superventas entre los que figura The Power of Broke.

More than 100K active users OR serial founder(s) with past exits OR more than 10K paying customers. Whenever possible, I want to pour gasoline on the fire, not start the fire.

But not until I started PayPal did I fully realize that you don't have to wait to start something. So if you're planning to do something with your life, if you have a 10-year plan of how to get there, you should ask: Why can't you do this in 6 months?

Breaking your rules to co-invest with well-known investors is usually a bad idea, but following your rules when others reject a startup can work out extremely well.

No es necesario que sacrifiques la integridad de tu arte para tener unos ingresos respetables. Basta con que crees una gran experiencia y cobres por ella.

Most of your startups will fail, so the successes need to make up for losses.

Zami?owanie do krz?taniny to jeszcze nie przedsi?biorczo??.

To be neither the boss nor the employee, but the owner. To own the trains and have someone else ensure they run on time.

Sobre Richard Branson: «Lo primero que se plantea con cada negocio es: "¿Cuáles son los inconvenientes? ¿Y cómo me guardo de ellos?".

When you make a business, you're making a little world where you control the laws. It doesn't matter how things are done everywhere else. In your little world, you can make it like it should be.

Most people go through life and never develop strong views on things, or specifically go along and buy into the consensus. One of the things I think you want to look for as both a founder and as an investor is things that are out of consensus, something very much opposed to the conventional wisdom. . . . Then, if you're going to start a company around

I'm old-fashioned. Where I come from, people like to succeed. . . . When I was a founder, when I first started out, we didn't have the word 'pivot.' We didn't have a fancy word for it. We just called it a fuck-up.

Neal Gabler's biography of Walt Disney.

The basis for the energy drink Red Bull came from a tonic in Thailand, and the Smurfs were brought from Belgium. Pokémon came from the land of Honda. The band KISS made millions in record and concert sales, but the real profit has been in licensing—granting others the right to produce hundreds of products with their name and image in exchange for a percentage of sales.

I manage to go jobless until three months after graduation, when I pull out my trump card and send one start-up CEO 32 consecutive e-mails. He finally gives in and puts me in sales.

I believe you shouldn't start a business unless people are asking you to.

If you are a micromanaging entrepreneur, realize that even if you can do something better than the rest of the world, it doesn't mean that's what you should be doing if it's part of the minutiae. Empower others to act without interrupting you.

Peter expands: "I think of problems as gold mines. The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities.