Quotes About Entrepreneurship

No new car company had been started in the United States since 1925.

The search for "better cab" was not limited to the United States. Cheng Wei, an engineer at the Chinese tech giant Alibaba, missed several flights in China because of his failure to get a taxi in time. Fed up, in 2012 he founded DiDi, which means "beep beep" in Chinese. Now called DiDi Chuxing after a merger, it has become the largest ride-hailing company in the world.

As an entrepreneur, you never stop learning.

There are three things you must do in order to become wealthy. You must have the right mindset, discover your purpose in life, and find a business that expresses that purpose.

I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non successful entrepreneurs is pure perseverance. It is so hard, you pour so much of your life into this thing, there are such rough moments in time, that most people give up. I don't blame them, it's really tough.

I call the age we are entering the creative age because the key factor propelling us forward is the rise of creativity as the primary mover of our economy.

In the information age, the richest people are entrepreneurs. We may not become a king or queen, but we can all be entrepreneurs.

One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.

I made a fair job and I hope you will buy it and tell your friends and I hope they will buy it too.

His nostrils were permanently flared, as though he sniffed invisible winds of art and commerce.

ADVENTURE CAPITALISTS

Competition between businesses creates better products and services, as well as lower prices. It encourages entrepreneurship and fosters good, hard work. The competition of free enterprise is a major reason businesses are usually more efficient and productive than government.

To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an artî

INSIGHT: Defining moments rewire our understanding of ourselves or the world. In a few seconds or minutes, we realize something that might influence our lives for decades: Now is the time for me to start this business.

What separated Blakely from other women with the same idea was her persistence.

In other words, companies aren't born in garages. Companies are born in companies. This

Who are you guys?! I just made a shitload of money off you!

Nigerians are everywhere. There's an old joke, particularly about the Ibos, that when you finally land on Mars, you're going to find a Nigerian there who has a shop that is selling Coca-Cola--who took a speculative trip 20 years ago and has been waiting for everyone else to arrive.

What entrepreneurs quickly learn is that they need to price their product at least 2.3 times its cost to allow for at least one 50 percent margin for them and another 50 percent margin for their retailers (1.5 × 1.5 = 2.25). That first 50 percent margin for the entrepreneur is really mostly covering the hidden costs of doing business at a scale that they hadn't thought of when they first started

entrepreneurship has meant either setting up a corner grocery shop or some other sort of modest local business or, more rarely, a total pie-in-the-sky crapshoot around an idea that is more likely to bring ruination than riches.

A basic dividing line is age fifty," says Edward Rogoff, economist at Baruch College, City University of New York. "You lose a good job at age fifty, the chances of getting another are small, so you do something else. You start your own business.

Real men" might have fabs, but Silicon Valley's new wave of semiconductor entrepreneurs didn't.

I met a lot of young girls modelling and they were like, 'Oh, I'm running around town and people are taking my picture', while I was saving receipts and learning how to be self-employed.

Confidence spark If you're feeling shaky about taking an action that could prove risky, use this exercise to determine if the action is what I call a best bet, a smart risk worth taking. First, analyze the pros and cons. Say you're offered a job working for a start-up company. How many pluses and minuses can you list? Which do you have more of? Second,