Quotes About Entrepreneurship

We kinda look at this as the second or third chapter of our lives. After college, most people figure out what they want to do with their lives. But we already know what we want to do in the future and that is to continue to further our business goals.

You are your greatest asset in the business of your life.

The very first company I started failed with a great bang. The second one failed a little bit less, but still failed. The third one, you know, proper failed, but it was kind of okay. I recovered quickly. Number four almost didn't fail. It still didn't really feel great, but it did okay. Number five was PayPal.

Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.

I'm looking forward to being a mom and a wife and a business owner.

incorporating, Mosaic Communications Corporation opened its doors in Mountain View, California. Four years later, Mosaic Communications had morphed into the half-billion-dollar Netscape Communications Corporation, the fastest-growing software company of all time. This chapter explores how

The best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.

Ideas are a commodity. Execution of them is not.

People have often told us that what we wanted to do couldn't be done. Our success is due, in part, to not just an ability but a willingness to look at things differently. I believe opportunity is part instinct and part immersion—in an industry, a subject, or an area of expertise. Dell is proof that people can learn to recognize and take advantage of opportunities that others are convinced don't exist.

I first met Serch at Payday, a really good once-a-week night club started by these guys Patrick Moxey and Beaver, the latter of whom I know now from the rare-wine world. (Did I just write that sentence? You're goddamn right I did.)

If your business depends on you, you don't own a business—you have a job. And it's the worst job in the world because you're working for a lunatic!

A true business opportunity is the on that an entrepreneur invents to grow him or herself. Not to work in, but to work on.

Thus, the Entrepreneurial Model does not start with a picture of the business to be created but of the customer for whom the business is to be created.

the Entrepreneurial Model has less to do with what's done in a business and more to do with how it's done. The commodity isn't what's important—the way it's delivered is.

To The Manager, then, The Technician becomes a problem to be managed. To The Technician, The Manager becomes a meddler to be avoided. To both of them, The Entrepreneur is the one who got them into trouble in the first place!

most businesses are operated according to what the owner wants as opposed to what the business needs.

Simply put, your job is to prepare yourself and your business for growth.

Once you recognize that the purpose of your life is not to serve your business, but that the primary purpose of your business is to serve your life, you can then go to work on your business, rather than in it, with a full understanding of why it is absolutely necessary for you to do so.

The key to becoming an entrepreneur is to be willing to start your business all over again.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation, and communication

Innovation is the creation and delivery of new customer value in the marketplace.

Make money with your mind, not your time.

At his father's Avenue Z office, Donald was itching to break away from building basic housing for middle-class, outer-borough families. When Fred Trump did branch out beyond Brooklyn, it was to buy cheap plots from desperate sellers in California, Nevada, Ohio, and Virginia. Donald wanted something bigger.

Hunt had thought of the name while watching his children playing with one of the hot novelties of the period, the Wham-O company's high-bouncing Super Ball.