Quotes About Entrepreneurship

Please don't get hung up on this question of whether you need to have experience in an industry before you launch your startup.

The first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty.

I learned that nobody's better than you to get your business off the ground. The experience you get is priceless.

When public figures think they can open a business even though they've got no business experience, it's a bad idea.

Failure is sometimes the best option if you view the process of entrepreneurship as a lifelong journey.

I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing.

It doesn't matter what your probability of failure is. If there's a 90% chance of failure, there's a 10% chance of changing the world.

I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.

I will work day and night to avoid failure, but if I can't, I'll pick myself up the next day. The most important thing for entrepreneurs is not to be put off by failure.

Start-ups should be based on radical ideas. There should be a high failure rate for start-ups, because if there isn't their ideas aren't bold enough.

As an entrepreneur, you have to be OK with failure. If you're not failing, you're likely not pushing yourself hard enough.

As Danand Ian over at the Lifestyle Business Podcast say: Rush to failure.

I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last... Whether it's tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.

Startups are based in faith, and the ones that succeed have no fear.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. Take every risk to explore new ideas and be authentic yet absolutely creative.

Being an entrepreneur is like being a pirate. Go for the booty and discover new, uncharted lands.

I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.

When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.

He responded with a tale about how, after spending hours in late 1937 queuing at a Jersey City pier to unload his truck, he realized that it would be quicker simply to hoist the entire truck body on board. From this incident, we are meant to believe, came his decision eighteen years later to buy a war-surplus tanker and equip it to carry 33-foot-long containers.

He was forever inventing a new way of doing an old thing and doing it better and quicker, but he never in his whole life had any talent for making money.

During World War I, Paul Starrett formed Starrett & Goss, which built steamships for the government. By the time Starrett Bros. & Eken was formed in 1922, Paul had already built Macy's to the designs of De Lemos & Cordes; Pennsylvania Station and the Main Post Office to the designs of McKim, Mead & White; and Warren & Wetmore's Biltmore Hotel, where the meeting with the Empire State's directors would decide their fate.

If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.

I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.