Quotes About Entrepreneurship

I invest in black-led startups not because of a sense of charity. I make those investments because of the basic principle of supply and demand and the reality that black entrepreneurs typically lack the network to have their deals become bid up and overvalued.

Building a successful business requires a combination of human capital, financial resources, market opportunity, persistence, community support, and even luck.

It's rare for a startup to make money immediately, so you need to make sure that you have enough saved or that you have another income stream that can support you.

I support women-run business.

My father set up his first business in the 1970s so that he could support his family.

Because most startups are lean and scrappy organizations consisting of a limited number of people and supported by an even smaller number of resources, startups cannot afford to have any slackers on board. When you fail, you cause an 'epic failure,' and when you win, everyone in the company knows about it.

I'm an American businessman. And I'm a very practical guy. I've supported a lot of different people.

Leesa has been a partner of mine since I left the NFL and started doing this Internet business. They've been a company that has supported everything that I have going on.

Lula da Silva was my hero when he was president. I Googled him so many times. The fact that he got 20 million people out of poverty... that happened by encouraging entrepreneurship, by supporting small business.

My life is devoted to business and supporting my family.

Supporting the people in our businesses is what we need to be thinking about. It's a no-brainer. It improves leadership. It improves productivity. It cultivates this entrepreneurship concept and improves retention.

Supporting the entrepreneurial spirit is our best chance for economic progress.

I am incredibly passionate about craft but am just as passionate about supporting local craft companies.

I'm supporting the School for Creative Startups because the project's ambition - to boost innovation and the culture of entrepreneurship - is something I feel strongly about.

I love supporting female-owned companies and women who are awesome.

I want to see a world in which every entrepreneur has access to the resources he or she needs to succeed, and where through the power of supportive communities - that means you and me - every resource can be made available.

You know, my company is my company. My dad didn't help me, and I didn't get money from my family. I have the most supportive family and they would give me anything, but I always thought that I wanted to do something on my own and prove myself on my own for sure.

There's nothing wrong with a business that supports you and perhaps an extended family. But if you want to build a scalable startup, you need to be asking how you can you get enough customers/users/payers to build a business that can grow revenues past several $100M/year.

I think of Chicago as a great entrepreneur city, a city that supports its own, that isn't as jaded as New York and L.A.

Democrats have consistently been the party that supports small businesses to drive the new economy forward. That's where innovation comes from.

My future was planned before my birth. I was supposed to get married or be involved in the family business. But I was all about breaking barriers and started thinking out of the box when I was 13-14 years old. Finally, at 17, I floated my own Microfinance Institution (MFI) called Svatantra.

Steve Jobs once asked me for some advice about retail, but I said, 'I am not sure at all we are in the same business.'

Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don't know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.

When I left my job at Lehman Brothers to start a company, my best friend's mother said, 'How could you leave a sure thing like Lehman to do a silly carpool startup?' That was three months before Lehman went bankrupt.