Quotes About Entrepreneurship

Mark Zuckerberg is the product of Facebook just as surely as Facebook is the product of Mark Zuckerberg.

People laughed at me for setting up a surf shop.

I grew up in a very high-achieving family. I have a brother who's a Harvard-educated cardiothoracic surgeon. My other brother is a two-time Olympian, fifth-round draft pick for the Philadelphia Eagles, and an entrepreneur and philanthropist.

Where did Keynes stand on overt fascism? From the scattered information now available, it should come as no surprise that Keynes was an enthusiastic advocate of the 'enterprising spirit' of Sir Oswald Mosley, the founder and leader of British fascism, in calling for a comprehensive 'national economic plan' in late 1930.

I'm also interested in pets with alopecia. And design. I'm surprised I haven't gone through with a homeware brand. The bedding, the comforters, the candles, the this and that. I would like to design everything.

We need to intentionally invest in health, in home ownership, in entrepreneurship, in access to democracy, in economic empowerment. If we don't do these things, we shouldn't be surprised that racial inequality persists because inequalities compound.

I'm quite surprised that nobody has asked me to do my own line of tweezers. I totally would love to do that. Or, like, mascara. Cara's Mascara!

The thing that's been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is - I think then, and I think now - that if we didn't do this, someone else would have done it.

Trouble is my business," I said. "How else would I make a nickel?

There are times when certain cards sit unclaimed in the common pile, when certain properties become available that will never be available again. A good businessman feels these moments like a fall in the barometric pressure. A great businessman is dumb enough to act on them even when he cannot afford to.

Others, having started by extending credit to customers, evolved into America's first investment banks. Lehman Brothers, founded by Henry Lehman, a Jewish immigrant from Bavaria, began as a dry goods store in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1844. Lazard Frères, founded by three Jewish brothers from France, began as a wholesale business in New Orleans in 1848.

Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity

Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.

I was in the Navy as an enlisted man, started my first business when I was 21.

You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man.

Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.

It isn't what a man's got in the bank, but what he's got in his head, that makes him a great merchant.

In capitalism, profit does not come out of another man's hardship; it comes out of new production of new wealth that's never existed before.

Lots of small business men have been contacting me to say they wish they had the nerve to say what I said.

Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse.

Anyone who critically analyzes a business learns this: that the success or failure of an enterprise depends usually upon one man.

In order to succeed in business a man does not need a degree from a school of business administration. These schools train the subalterns for routine jobs. They certainly do not train entrepreneurs.

Being your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father.

Credit is a young man's capital.