Quotes About Entrepreneurship

I am working on a dress sock line of funky, colorful, cool designs.

S. William Pattis founded and served as Chairman/CEO of NTC Publishing Group from 1961 until 1996, when the firm was acquired by Tribune Company (NYSE). NTC published

Wallace with an investment of $5,000; Time, started on a shoestring in 1923 by Henry Luce and his partner Briton Hadden; and The New Yorker, the creation of editor Harold

We must learn to develop ourselves. At the same time, it is a world teeming with critical problems and opportunities, best solved and seized by entrepreneurs—individuals or small groups who think independently, adapt quickly, and possess unique perspectives. Your individualized, creative skills will be at a premium.

This will rule out working in groups larger than a handful of people—above a certain number, political considerations inevitably rise to the surface. This means working for yourself or on very small startups.

The same should apply to an entrepreneurial venture. Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.

Image perception makes a big difference. That's one of the things I tell entrepreneurs today. Fine, focus on products, focus on customers and all that good stuff - that's necessary. But the image that you project is also key. Don't forget that.

In today's rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers.

En lugar de buscar un empleo, busca problemas que necesiten ser resueltos.

nueve de cada diez negocios fracasan, es porque se enfocan en el producto y no en toda la estructura del negocio.

Lo primero que piensan casi todos los empleados cuando les hablo de llegar a ser empresario y echar a andar un negocio o invertir en bienes raíces, es: "¿Y qué tal si cometo un error? ¿Qué pasará si pierdo dinero? ¿Qué pasará si fracaso?" Esta mentalidad es lo que impide que la gente sea rica.

cuando echas a andar tu propio negocio con base en casa, muchos de los gastos que antes eran personales –gastos después de impuestos–, se convierten de inmediato en gastos de negocio antes de impuesto.

Los ricos no trabajan para obtener dinero, sino para adquirir activos que generen flujo de efectivo.

la mayoría de los empleados y los autoempleados trabajan para conseguir dinero. Nosotros, como inversionistas en bienes raíces, estábamos en el lado de los Dueños de negocios y de los Inversionistas profesionales en el cuadrante, y por eso buscábamos activos que produjeran flujo de efectivo.

Schools were designed to produce good employees instead of employers

ahora todo mundo quiere ser empresario, toda la gente tiene una idea millonaria en la cabeza. El problema es que en las escuelas no se les enseña a los estudiantes a ser empresarios.

Os empregados buscam segurança; os empreendedores buscam liberdade.

What distinguishes the successful entrepreneur and promoter from other people is precisely the fact that he does not let himself be guided by what was and is, but arranges his affairs on the ground of his opinion about the future. He sees the past and the present as other people do; but he judges the future in a different way

The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.

They get up every day and go work for money, not taking the time to ask the question, 'Is there another way?

When I ask the classes I teach, "How many of you can cook a better hamburger than McDonald's?" almost all the students raise their hands. I then ask, "So if most of you can cook a better hamburger, how come McDonald's makes more money than you?" The

One dad recommended, "Study hard so you can find a good company to work for." The other recommended, "Study hard so you can find a good company to buy.

most of us can cook a better hamburger than McDonald's, but few of us can build a better business system than McDonald's.

He said it was better to work years at creating an asset rather than to spend your life working hard for money to create someone else's asset.