Quotes About Entrepreneurship

It's obviously unfair to paint with a broad brush here, but the germ of an idea for a breakthrough in technology doesn't come out of a business school curriculum. It comes out of a laboratory or a math lecture or a physics tutorial.

One of the sanitarium's earliest guests was a marketing whiz named C. W. Post, who took the baths, ate the meals, and, inspired by what he experienced there, eventually went into business for himself.

That is how entrepreneurs work. Where others see a barrier, they imagine a logical solution and then turn it into reality.

He is—and this is a fundamental entrepreneurial talent—a master illusionist. It's the essential entrepreneurial skill, to convince people you are what you have yet to become.

For Trump, as for many showmen or press release entrepreneurs, the enemy of everything is complexity and red tape, and the solution for everything is cutting corners. Bypass or ignore the difficulties; just move in a straight line to the vision, which, if it's bold enough, or grandiose enough, will sell itself.

company built around the instincts, impulses, and gambles of its leader?

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

The American laughed and scoffed at him. He said, "You know, I have an MBA from Stanford, and I can help you. You should spend more time fishing, and with the proceeds you could buy a bigger boat, and with the proceeds from the bigger boat you could buy several boats, and eventually you'd have a fleet of fishing boats, and then instead of selling your catch to that middleman over there, you could sell directly to the processor,

eventually opening your own cannery. You could control the product; you could control the market. You could control all the processing and distribution. And then, of course, you'd need to leave this little fishing village and move to Mexico City. Then you'd move to LA and eventually New York City, where you would run an expanding enterprise." The Mexican fisherman said, "But, Señor, how long will this take?

The American replied, "Maybe fifteen to twenty years." "But what then, Señor? What after the fifteen to twenty years?" The American laughed and said, "Ah, that's the best part. Because after that, when the time is right, you'd sell your company stock to the public, you'd become filthy rich, and you'd make millions.

They act like "business owners" because they are. They put themselves in a position to continue networking, learning, and "being close to the action." They don't go to court, paint houses, collect rent, cut grass, or help set out evicted tenants. They have systems in place to handle this for them.

Investing in real estate is by far, the biggest common denominator of millionaires, multimillionaires, and megamillionaires and billionaires.

My personal opinion and recommendation is to NEVER quit your job until your real estate income is producing a lot more than your job income.

Work as if you own the company and soon you just might.

I hope my music sets up the platform for me to be able to do lots of things - to have a cowboy-boot line, maybe, or do a perfume or makeup deal.

That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.

President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!

At a time when nobody thought we'd ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and built one in a corn field in Indiana. Today Steel Dynamics is one of the largest steel producers in the United States.

Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.

I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, I know how it can help from time- to-time.

En casi todo el mundo los gobiernos han vendido las empresas de propiedad estatal, han deshecho monopolios, han liberalizado sus regímenes comerciales y de inversión, y han mejorado el entorno económico para los emprendedores. Un

I went looking for dresses and realized there was a niche I could fill in the wedding dress market.

My decision to start Street Deejays found me at campus I hustled at campus like a street grown nigga. I developed the word Street, and every business I hold, the word Street must be there...

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.