Quotes About Entrepreneurship

Chris Rock, the Google founders, and Jeff Bezos and his team are examples of people who approach problems in a nonlinear manner using little bets, what University of Chicago economist David Galenson has dubbed "experimental innovators.

entrepreneurs do not try to avoid errors or surprises. They seek to learn from them, just as chefs often arrive at new recipes through improvisation.

The stand he wants to open'll sell gyros, he says. He's not Italian after all.

In the information age, the barriers just aren't there," he said. "The barriers are self-imposed. If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on, and the dedication to go through with it. We slept on floors. We waded across rivers.

It is more frightening but it is not less productive to go your own way, to form your own theatre company, to write and stage your own plays, to make your own films. You have an enormously greater chance of eventually presenting yourself to, and eventually appealing to, an audience by striking out on your own, by making your own plays and films, than by submitting to the industrial model of the school and studio.

Some of us are happy with our African hair, thank you very much. I don't want some poor Indian girl's hair. And I wish to God I could buy black hair products from black people for once. How we going to make it in this country if we don't make our own business?

The point of an accelerator is to teach you about companies and business, not about technology.

I fell into makeup by accident, but I found my love for it, and once I realized that I could actually turn it into a huge business, that's when I started taking it a little bit more seriously, but it's always something that I knew could be something.

I am a basic social activist with small-business experience, and you go where you need to go.

Most of the time, when I make a big move, people say I am out of my mind. But I don't think about how I can add to what I have today.

There are great advantages of making things on the independent market. There's freedom and control there, and kind of a cleanness to the process that I like.

There's nothing wrong with advocating for your own company.

We couldn't afford to move, so we decided to start up a model agency.

I lost $4 million of other people's money between the ages of 24 and 26.

In America, they like to think, 'Do as many things as you can.' That's what I like about being here. 'You're a polymath! We call you multi-hyphenates!' I like the idea you're allowed work as much as you can.

I'm very ambitious when it comes to business.

Forever 21 is my American Dream.

Moving to L.A. when I was 11 was when my entrepreneurialism started because it's the land of the American dream.

I have lived the American Dream.

I certainly get a lot of people who ask me about what it's like at SpaceX, and have you learned from it, and are there things you're taking away that you apply to your own business. The answer to all those is yes.

The best ideas are those that create a new mind-set or sense a need before others do, and it takes an astute investor to recognize an idea that not only is ahead of its time but also has long-term prospects.

In the course of the year I spent trying to raise money, I spoke to 242 people, and 217 of them said "no.

We also sold books, creating several best sellers and helping to put unknown authors on the map.

At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.