Quotes About Entrepreneurship

I think Kansas City has one of the strongest entrepreneurial ecosystems in the country.

My father certainly believed that one could make a living outside of an office, as he did. And that if I didn't want to work for other people, there wasn't any reason why I had to. He conveyed that very strongly to my sister and I - that smart people can make their own livings.

Entrepreneurialism, to me, means being able to fail. And I believe that kind of leadership is not necessary only in business, but it's necessary for running countries, too. You've got to be able to believe in something strongly enough that you want to do it even if there's a risk of failure.

We believe strongly that all meaningful change comes from entrepreneurs.

As a small-business man myself, I believe strongly that improving the health of small businesses is the key to improving the economy, growing the middle class, and creating innovative products and services.

It struck me that most businesses have less than 100 employees, but most payroll services were going after bigger companies.

I try to grow my management team as entrepreneurs, make the structure decentralized.

You can be as creative as you want to and build all these cool projects, but ultimately, if they're not successful and you don't have the business structure in place, everything will flop.

Every entrepreneur, whether man or woman, should start with a robust business structure.

As I've evolved, I'm capable of doing a lot of things at once, but really, as an entrepreneur and business person, it's more about adding the right structure to be able to handle scaling all those things as opposed to being at the forefront of doing a lot of them.

A successful entrepreneur is one who recognizes her blind spots. You may be the world's best engineer, but you probably have never run a 10-person sales force. You may be a brilliant marketer, but how do you structure a cap table?

I am listening to a book by the guy who founded Nike, and I can relate to it. He struggled.

As an entrepreneur, one of my biggest struggles is that you have to focus, but you also have to expand.

'Bazillion Dollar Club' follows six struggling startups trying to get their products together.

Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.

Part of the power of having startup communities is it continues to challenge the status quo. So for many of these cities that were once very important and powerful that today are struggling, startup communities are a way for them to rejuvenate themselves.

If you go out there and start making noise and making sales - people will find you. Sales cure all. You can talk about how great your business plan is and how well you are going to do. You can make up your own opinions, but you cannot make up your own facts. Sales cure all.

I have learnt as an entrepreneur that the formidable opponent you can have is someone who has nothing to lose.

I am always capital short. If I see the opportunity, I will get the money.

What's important is that you build your company to be able to capture the opportunity as it comes.

Each country is different. Keep an open mind, and you will able to find where the niche entry level lies - the areas where there are gaps. You have to keep an ear to the ground, and you can find a business opportunity.

Part of the American dream is 'I can own my own business, I can control my destiny. I can have the opportunity to work for myself.'

As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.

I want to be a combination of P. Diddy and Oprah.