Quotes About Entrepreneurship

Venture capital is an inherently optimistic form of investment - which is both its primary strength and its primary weakness.

My biggest television weakness is 'Dragons' Den.'

Silicon Valley tends to be very myopic - to be focused on one or two things - which has some strengths as well as weaknesses.

Networking is an essential part of building wealth.

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

The only way to make real wealth is to get rid of your salary. In a salary, by definition, you are creating wealth for others, and you are creating a chain and handcuffs for yourself.

Small business is crucial. I think we talk so much about large businesses, they're well represented; they talk well for themselves. But most people work for small businesses; most wealth that stays in a community gets generated from them.

The extraordinary genius of John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie 100 years ago was their recognition that the great wealth they had amassed could be put to public good and used to solve the complex problems for which there were no other sources of capital.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.

If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale - more customers.

Most tech companies do one trick and die. If you can do two or three or four, that's where wealth gets created.

My own belief is that the way we grow the economy, create jobs, create wealth is in the private sector. The government doesn't do that.

I know how to make stuff happen, how to create wealth, create jobs, create investment.

Let individuals create real wealth, empower them, create something that they can leave for their children.

I'm someone who believes that making things creates wealth.

There is a huge amount of wealth that's generated here in Silicon Valley.

If low taxes were the way that people like me created wealth, then we'd be starting our companies in the Congo or Somalia or Afghanistan, but we're not. We come to places where there are lots and lots of customers.

I hope to continue acquiring companies, not so much for the accumulation of wealth but because it's what I do well, and you always like to do what you do well.

We didn't create all this wealth; we capitalized on an environment that permitted us to create it.

For most Indians in America, wealth is not inherited. Neither do we make it as heads of large hedge funds and private equity funds. For us to make it to the top, we have to use our knowhow to create great new technology products and build high-tech companies.

I prefer to take the view of businesspeople who are actually generating jobs and creating wealth.

Knowing that my ancestry had all been quite wealthy and owned their own businesses probably left me with the ambition to replicate what they'd done.

Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.