Quotes About Entrepreneurship

I talk to Oprah several times a week, and I see the side of Oprah that's having the time of her life. What she's getting to do with OWN is build a team to create a brand from nothing.

My idols are Oprah and Martha. From nothing, they built industries.

Someone that I'm really inspired by, and that I look up to, is Oprah. It's amazing how she created such an empire.

Martha Stewart convinced me to have a business. She sometimes takes a very personal interest, and she kept saying, 'You have to open your own business,' and gave me chances. She took my cakes on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show.' I met a lot of people through her.

Well, optimism's a good thing. It - makes people go out and - you know, start businesses and spend and do whatever is necessary to get the economy going.

I am a natural optimist, as entrepreneurs tend to be.

I'm an optimist. You can't be an entrepreneur if you're not essentially an optimist, so I'm an optimist by nature.

On the consumer level, the products developed by entrepreneurs help to provide more and better options that make life easier and more enjoyable in the everyday lives of the public.

The most important thing for us is investing and making companies great, and then they have all the options they want, whether that's to go public or stay private.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

I think I was 9, and my mom ordered them for me from a catalogue. They bred like crazy, and I was selling gerbils all around Michigan. They wrote a story about me in the local newspaper.

I used to say I'm not a business. I'm not! But I've had to come round to it, to acknowledge that you had to be an organisation and had to have a business dimension in order to do your passion.

I grew up in a business-inspired environment, and over the years have started and run several businesses and philanthropic organizations. Understanding how large corporations work, by having hands-on and board experience, I apply that knowledge to the benefit of all that I do.

There are many design companies, but there are few designers who organize their own business and open it up to other designers.

Migrants make huge contributions to both their host countries and countries of origin. They take jobs that local workforces cannot fill, boosting economic activity. Many are innovators and entrepreneurs.

The original idea for Justin.tv was a terrible idea. So if something like that can eventually become successful, then anyone can be successful.

My ultimate idea would be to get a lot of big investors together, buy some land outside Orlando, Florida, and start up Rabbitt Land.

Just as entrepreneurs developed America, they can develop other countries, too.

Everyone on the founding team ought to invest the time in a coding bootcamp.

Hip-hop is a beautiful thing. I think that the music genre itself has created more millionaires than any other music genre before it, especially in our community.

Our generation are always go-getting, hustling.

This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

We built a business for ourselves just out of hard work, and I think people really want to hear from us about that.

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.