Quotes About Entrepreneurship

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Find a need and fill it

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.

On A. F. Pugh's plantation, an enterprising former slave accumulated a cartload of articles from several neighboring plantations and bartered them with other blacks in the vicinity; the overseer was powerless to stop this apparently flourishing business based on loot.

We make a product and sell it. How hard can it be? Every douchebag either one of us has ever worked for has managed to do this!

a good way to make some cash without worrying about boring things like originality or operating capital.

IF you can approach Pilates as a business and have awareness of your own monetary needs, there is no reason why you can't make money.

Of 1,091 inventions patented in Canada, only 75 of them ever made it to market—less than 1 percent. Of these, 45 lost money. Just 6 out of 1,091 patented inventions made significant profits for their inventors.

One of the things we urge Y-Combinator companies to do is to have profitability in grasp. If you need to get profitable before your A round of money, you ought to be able to do that.

Be careful not to start a company that really belongs as a feature of another company, like the 25 Twitter URL shortener companies out there. Pick a real problem that's here to stay.

It's a pleasure to contribute to the entrepreneurial community at USC.

Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.

If you give me $100bn now, I can't use it. There is not only money, there is talent and experience. That's why we need the private sector.

I always looked up to people who did more than just rap or focus on music. I'm inspired by the people who put their different talents to use and turned it into something bigger.

The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.

Am I as experienced, or mature, or smart as others CEOs? No probably not, but there's something, I think, very useful about having a founder as the CEO.

The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.

If it is something particularly useful and for some reason is having trouble getting funding from traditional sources, I may be interested.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.

Amassing a user base is a lot harder than one might think.

The unifying factor in my career across investing and entrepreneurship was that the whole time I've basically been an involuntary power user of legal services.

We built our business on creativity, and we're going to have to go through an education process for the next five years to explain to people how our users and that creativity creates value.