Quotes About Entrepreneurship

I always knew that content was the best way to sell things, but my thing was, why sell other people's stuff if I have a point of view?

From my point of view, what I really like, what I think is really terrific about my work, is that the company's had the opportunity to train literally thousands and thousands of brand new franchisees to successfully run their very first business.

We started our company out of a need to survive, but we've built it based on a mission not only to help others survive but to prosper. In fact, we view ourselves as a mission with a business, rather than a business with a mission.

Many small businesses use what is called a modified cash-basis accounting method. These businesses record most transactions when cash is exchanged, but account for certain transactions, such as the purchase and use of equipment, over time using a method called depreciation.

I'm not stupid. I would like to have some businesses that grow so I won't have to be out there on the road when I'm 44.

Most of her mom's friends are things like therapists, or lawyers, or doctors, or they own businesses like wool shops or coffee shops, or they're stay-home moms who hover over their kids and go to yoga and to the spa for deep tissue massages and mani-pedis. None of them would ever wait on a table.

If you can find your perfect job, create one.

Our young men and women must be taught that through hard work, they can create opportunities for themselves and others.

A sure way to start your own business is to stay out of everyone else's.

Jeff Bezos was one of those best and brightest who came to N.Y. to work in finance. He didn't need to know anything about retail bookselling to start Amazon.

The best design work is really done when you spend more time with people, when you have the opportunity to be of the same mindset and the same incentives as the founder of the business.

The woman who can create her own job is the one who will win fame and fortune.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages.

As early as 1817 the Prussian ambassador was reporting to Berlin that Rothschild was 'easily the most enterprising business man in the country. He is, moreover, a man upon whom one can rely and with whom the Government here does considerable business. He is also … honest and intelligent.'[

Don't rely on market surveys.

Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.

You fellows ever thought of hiring out as a Christmas lights crew? You'd make a fortune.

All one needs is a computer, a network connection, and a bright spark of initiative and creativity to join the economy.

I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer.

My dream was actually just to have a computer some day. If I'd imagined that it meant starting a company to sell them, I probably would have avoided the whole thing.

Sit me at the keyboard of any computer in the world with access to the Internet, and in just 24 hours I'll earn at least $24,000 in cash.

I treat business a bit like a computer game. I count money as points. I'm doing really well: making lots of money and lots of points.

I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.

When we launched the WineLibrary website in 1996, I didn't even own a computer yet. I just understood that there was an opportunity here to market in a different way.