Quotes About Entrepreneurship

I didn't leave business school to go bankrupt.

You can increase the odds of spotting the weak points in your approach if you really think about the end-to-end business model you plan to follow - how you plan to create, capture, and deliver value.

One of the big failings of art schools is that students aren't given any teaching on how to survive as a one-person business, which is what it is.

Give up control and give it away ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth.

The average for entrepreneurs is 3.8 failures before they finally make it in business.

As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort.

My pipe business I created from scratch; my media assets and bank I bought from the secondary market.

I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football.

Small businesses are really the engine in the economy.

I intentionally built a business that has absolutely nothing to do with appearance.

I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business.

You'd better have the technology knowledge. I really urge you not to think you can start a whole company and business with just ideas on paper, because you'll end up owning so few of those ideas.

Having a company that's successful is a wonderful platform to do new things. You don't have to raise money for it; you can take profits from the company and pump them into new business.

I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business.

Being a good designer certainly doesn't guarantee that you're good at business. It's probably more surprising when the two talents coexist in one person.

I'm sometimes described as a flamboyant leader and a hip-shooter, a fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants operator. But if that were true, I could never have been successful in this business.

I have set up several businesses as social businesses, and I am a great believer that the power of business should be used for good.

Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster.

Small businesses are the lifeblood of our economy.

I knew I needed a partner. I needed someone who could focus on and spearhead the business side of things, and [Neal Dodson] was great at that. That's how it started.

I've always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I'd read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.

Ideas are easy. I've never met a single person who didn't think they had a world class idea. The hard part is making it a business.

But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose.

Only morons start a business on a loan?