Quotes About Entrepreneurship

Svatantra's journey began with a vision to make women in rural areas self-sustainable.

As long as you can bootstrap, not at the sacrifice of competitive advantage, bootstrapping is a really powerful thing because it allows you to be totally devoted to your vision.

You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom.

We look for companies that are unlike anything we've ever seen before, with a bold vision to change the world and run by passionate entrepreneurs who get you jumping out of your seat.

I think one of the main reason's Rick Rosenthal and Whitewater PIctures decided to 'get in bed with me' on 'Fat Kid' was because I came in with a strong business plan as well as a creative vision on how to make the film.

Imagine the world of mobile based on Nokia and Motorola if Apple had not been restarted by a missionary entrepreneur named Steve Jobs who cared more for his vision than being tactical and financial.

Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.

As much as you need to know your operations, if you don't understand the finance side and how to do the business, you're never going to be successful. So you might be the best operator or visionary, but if you don't understand the finance side... I'm successful because I know the finance side, but I also know operations; it's not an accident.

Empirically the way you get a product visionary as CEO is for him to found the company and not get fired.

As I have said many times - I like Facebook. I think it is well built and run. It's cool. I think it is, in its next-step way, even visionary.

Visionary CEOs are product- and business-model-centric and extremely customer focused.

In tech in particular, everyone is so serious all the time and has these grand visions.

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.

Blue Sky is the stage where you develop a vision to address that Need and identify what you're going to create. Put another way, the objective of the Blue Sky stage is to create a vision with enough detail to be able to explain, present, and sell it to others.

The real work of startups is about as sexy and fun as a root canal and about as natural as a jolly rancher. Founding

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According to Gerber, to run a successful business, business owners need to balance three personalities: the technician the manager the entrepreneur.

The vain arrogance of the literati and the Bohemian artists dismisses the activities of the businessmen as unintellectual money-making. The truth is that the entrepreneurs and promoters display more intellectual faculties and intuition than the average writer and painter. The inferiority of many self-styled intellectuals manifests itself precisely in the fact that they fail to recognize what capacity and reasoning power are required to develop and to operate successfully a business enterprise.

If any of the socialist chiefs had tried to earn his living by selling hot dogs, he would have learned something about the sovereignty of the consumers.

La inferioridad de muchos autodenominados intelectuales se manifiesta precisamente en el hecho de que no reconocen qué capacidad y poder de razonamiento se requieren para desarrollar y operar con éxito una empresa comercial.

Coloro che combattono per la libera concorrenza non difendono gli interessi di quelli che sono ricchi. Vogliono che sia lasciata mano libera a uomini sconosciuti, che saranno gli imprenditori di domani e la cui ingegnosità renderà più piacevole la vita delle generazioni future.

credit set business free from dependence on the simultaneous occurrence of demand and supply.

and my mother raised me by herself, supporting us by hosting home parties to sell sex toys instead of Tupperware.

Tolerably good workmen in any of those mechanic arts are sure to find employ, and to be well paid for their work, there being no restraints preventing strangers from exercising any art they understand, nor any permission necessary. If they are poor, they begin first as servants or journeymen; and if they are sober, industrious, and frugal, they soon become masters, establish themselves in business, marry, raise families, and become respectable citizens.