Quotes About Entrepreneurship

Business isn't about ties, suits and briefcases. It's about adventure.

Fun is at the core of the way I like to do business and it has been key to everything I've done from the outset. More than any other element, fun is the secret of Virgin's success. I am aware that the ideas of business as being fun and creative goes right against the grain of convention, and it's certainly not how the they teach it at some of those business schools, where business means hard grind and lots of 'discounted cash flows' and net' present values'.

the best motto to follow is 'Nothing ventured; nothing gained'.

What we are trying to do at Virgin is not to have one enormous company in one sector under one banner, but to have two hundred or even three hundred separate companies. Each company can stand on its own feet and, in that way, although we've got a brand that links them, if we were to have another tragedy such as that of 11 September - which hurt the airline industry - it would not bring the whole group crashing down.

The key enterprising skills I used when first starting out are the very same ones I use today: the art of delegation, risk-taking, surrounding yourself with a great team and working on projects you really believe in.

From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I've felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people's lives better.

Big Mac started life selling paper cups. He was someone else who didn't believe in wasting time.

Perhaps he was in a hurry because he didn't get the idea for McDonald's until he was aged 52.

El arte de delegar es una de las habilidades claves que cualquier emprendedor debe dominar. "Contrate gente que no tenga sus debilidades". Si

By 2016, Pitch To Rich had morphed into VOOM, the UK and Ireland's biggest and most valuable pitch competition, with more than £1 million of prizes on offer. As the posters said: 'I've got 99 problems but a pitch ain't one!

I became the lease holder of the Roof Gardens after a bouncer refused me entry for wearing jeans and looking too scruffy. I bought the place the next day, and gently informed the bouncer to let me in regardless of my clothing. He turned out to be a delightful gentleman and ended up working for us for another three decades.

when you make mistakes at least try to make them quickly.

On impulse, Joan and I decided to fly down to the Virgin Islands. We had nowhere to stay and not very much money, but I heard that if you expressed a serious interest in buying an island the local estate agent would put you up for nothing in a grand villa and fly you all around the Virgin Islands by helicopter.

On 8 December 2003 we floated Virgin Blue on the stock market for A$2.3 billion. A$2.3 billion! This, the same airline we'd started with A$10 million only four years earlier, and had rejected a A$250 million offer for only two years previously.

Screw it. Let's do it.

Entrepreneurial business favors the open mind.

The places that thrive today are those with the highest velocity of ideas, the highest density of talented and creative people, and the highest rate of metabolism. "Velocity" and "density" are not words many people use when describing suburbia.

A Canadian physician and entrepreneur named Abraham Gesner pioneered the development of coal oil, initially as a source of coal gas for lighting.

In a matter of months, the Canadian physician developed a distinctive process for making illuminating gas from bitumen with coal oil as an intermediary. When he applied for a Nova Scotia patent on his process in June 1849, he used the patent to protect his products' brand names as well, calling them kerosene and kerosene gas (from keros, Greek for "wax," and -ene to associate the new products with familiar camphene).

True, Jedediah Halsey's Sans Souci hadn't been so much foolish as "visionary," which, as everyone knew, was what you called a foolish idea that worked anyway.

We're the first generation where artists have become true businessmen and felt neither shame nor pain

I worked hard and smarter than most people in the businesses I have been in.

Give the individual the power to be a producer as well as a consumer.

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards. Wherever I go I meet innovators of wind power equipment, solar energy operators.