Quotes About Entrepreneurship

When I was in the restaurant and bar business, I followed a rule, which was that the places that I opened were places that I wanted to go to.

I even opened a nightclub called Evonne's.

I've always been very business-oriented, ever since I was, like, eight years old and I opened my first bank account.

If opening your own business is the dream, then it must start with a Dream - not only to understand what it is that you want to do, but also, how you are going to build something better than the same chaotic environment you just left.

Hiring new people, opening up in new markets, all of that takes money.

My idea of opening a restaurant was important. The whole point is that I couldn't have been totally dependent on acting for my income... even though I want to remain in the field of entertainment forever.

What do I know about opening a brewery? Nothing.

Entrepreneurship requires an unvanquished spirit of curiosity, an openness to learning, a letting go of OldCo so you're free to create NewCo.

So many black kids aspire to be entertainers or professional athletes because those are the only role models they see that look like them. There are only 300 jobs in the NBA but an endless amount of opportunities as an entrepreneur. With enough hustle, entrepreneurship opens doors to a world of opportunities.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

I love doing deals and operating companies.

When I first opened Milk Bar, I was also making desserts for the Momofuku restaurants. I will say that by day three or day four, I realized that operating a bakery was so different from operating a restaurant.

I'm a businessman. Making records is my business. I have a big operation and I employ a lot of people.

I know all three facets of the business: the development side, the operations side, and I know how to borrow the money and how to put the deal together. If it was easy, everybody would do it.

Credit is a young man's capital.

This is peculiarly an age of young men starting out in business for themselves; of rare, unfettered spirits chafing at the bonds of employment and refusing to spend their lives working forty-eight weeks in the year for a salary.

Mickey was not merely the right idea at the right time; he was the creative solution to a crisis in Walt's life.

This result is as important for the owner of a business as it is for authors and bloggers.

Por ejemplo, quería vender rieles de acero al Ferrocarril de Pennsylvania. J. Edgar Thomson era entonces presidente de ese ferrocarril. Y Andrew Carnegie construyó en Pittsburgh una enorme planta de altos hornos a la que puso el nombre de "Edgar Thomson Trabajos de Acero".

The company that writes your paycheck every two weeks is not your employer; they are your customer. Adopt this mind-set and everything changes. You are free from the daily grind—free to grow your business and serve your customers, your fellow man.

One thing that never changes—and business owners should always remember this—is that a business cannot last without making a profit.

There is only one way to make money: finding out what other people want or need and then providing those things to as many of our fellow humans as possible. This is the only way to earn money, no matter your occupation.

It took two phone calls in 2009 to convince Charif Souki to turn around the business he was trying to build.

Starting off with a tiny trucking company that he built into a major enterprise, McLean went on to unleash the container revolution in world shipping that is the foundation of today's global economy.