Quotes About Entrepreneurship

So it's rare if I go to a city and don't shop. I know different store systems in every city so I just like doing business everywhere I go.

Electronic Accounting Systems processed my little payrolls like one big payroll. I did the selling, and the people I hired did most of the operations.

My parents were immigrants who started a nursery as a way to get us kids through school. I learned around the dinner table about customer service and cash flow and paying bills.

Success is created in studio apartments and garages, at kitchen tables, and in classrooms across the nation, not in government conference rooms in Washington.

The big problem that UWink had was we were essentially building tablets because they hadn't been invented yet. That drove up the cost a lot.

It's exciting to be able to be part of the block and tackle of building a company from a smaller base.

Entrepreneurship is about tackling big problems - often non-obvious problems - that will have a meaningful impact on the world, and this usually involves solving these problems in counterintuitive ways.

I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.

The key is to somehow find a way of tackling rent-seeking, crony capitalism, and corruption - legal and illegal - and build fairer, more equal society without compromising innovation or entrepreneurship.

The Korean taco was a phenomenon... It just came out of us. We didn't really think about it.

And so they pitched the show to me. It sounded like a good idea. We pitched the show back, and got it sold and got it on the air. And that's kicking the tail.

My Taiwanese parents came to America with no money and supported my brothers and me as small business owners in Orange County, which is close to L.A. but about as far away from Hollywood as you can be.

It's in the American spirit to take advantage of an opportunity.

The massive migration from dumb phones to smart phones is a great opportunity for young companies to take advantage of.

You know, magic markets don't appear all the time, so you take advantage of them.

The thought in my mind was that I must be a good merchant. If I were a good merchant, the rest would probably take care of itself.

I've actually taken companies public, I've actually busted companies, I've actually gone broke.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

You have to make a decision: Am gonna be the person that takes the risk? Am I gonna be the person that says I'm gonna start this business and I'm gonna follow through with it no matter what the obstacles?

Be it $15 million here and $11 million there, it takes hundreds of millions to be successful in this business.

I think airlines have been very much parrots. They'll just follow what everyone else is doing. Why change a model that they're happy in? And it takes someone like myself or Richard Branson who comes from outside the industry to say, 'Hey, let's try something new.'

Based on my experience, I would say that rather than taking lessons in how to become an entrepreneur, you should jump into the pool and start swimming.

Innovation means taking risks, and that is where the private sector can play a role.

Taking risks and being focused, sometimes, are at odds. Both are required to build a great company.