Quotes About Entrepreneurship

The genius of American business lies in risk-taking, creativity, invention, and ambition.

Governments do not create, individuals create. Every invention was once just a thought inside someones head.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

There are few experiences in life as painful and brutal as the failure of a small business. For a small business conceived and nurtured by its owner is like a living, breathing child. Its loss is no less traumatic than losing a loved one.

To become a successful changemaker, you don't have to study social entrepreneurship. You do need to understand the workings of the systems you hope to change and the history of the problem with which you are concerned.

In 2013, for example, a seventeen-year-old Australian teenager living in England built a content-shortening app, called Summly, in his bedroom, which he promptly sold to Yahoo for a reported thirty million dollars. Now, imagine the next seventeen-year-old with a 3D printer, and you begin to sense the dimensions of the potential upheaval.

When one of the children of his friend Harvey Firestone boasted that he had some savings in the bank, Ford lectured the child. That money was idle. What the child should do, Ford said, was spend the money on tools. "Make something," he admonished. "Create something.

A leader must lead. Where others see obstacles, he must see opportunities. When others see problems, he must see possibilities ... Civilization is not built on a negation but on an affirmation- an affirmation of the bright and promising possibilities that the future holds for those who are enterprising enough to pursue them.

I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.

Have you ever been tempted to start your own business? First read this cautionary tale, especially if you think your ideas come from God.

I have always believed India is a country blessed by God with enormous entrepreneurial skills.

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.

I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company.

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.

The very act of becoming an entrepreneur is contrarian to middle class values, study hard, get a good job, be happy with secure income and steady salary.

I prefer to like the people I invest in, but it's not an absolute necessity, as long as they have a good mind and I know they'll do whatever it takes to be successful.

A good businessman sees where others don't see.

Selling through the internet seems to be a very good idea. There are a million areas that we can go to.

As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.

Entrepreneurs need to listen. They don't need to be good listeners (although it can only help) but they need to know when to listen.

Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas.

Mitt Romney will stop the attacks on job creators, encourage entrepreneurs to chase their dreams, and bring good jobs and a better future to all Americans.

At an early age, I started my own paper route. Once I saw how you could service people and do a good job and get paid for it, I just wanted to be the best I could be in whatever I did.