Quotes About Entrepreneurship

I'm going, to make money out of the stars.

I have no regrets about launching Salon. For the life of me, I can't imagine doing anything else.

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Small developers can compete on creativity not on scale or staff size.... Nintendo is willing to help bring these ideas to life.

When you create a business, you create something that improves the life of your customer, of another person, maybe of ten people, of a thousand people, of a million people. There's no higher calling.

I should never seek a job in my life, my mission in life is to create jobs. I am not a job seeker, I am a job giver.

If life gives you lemons, don't settle for simply making lemonade - make a glorious scene at a lemonade stand.

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

Amway gets people into a new life of excitement, promise, profit, and hope.

Actually," began Nina, feeling timid and trying to force herself to speak a little louder. This was her life now; she was going to have to own it, even though she felt as you often do when you've had to do absolutely everything by yourself: rather like a grumpy child. She took a breath. "Actually, I'm going to run a mobile bookshop. Go around to the towns where they don't have one, like here.

I have several computer companies. One of them I have a program for wide-format printing. I have a beauty program. So I have several different programs that I own for printing.

The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of them have become the best in the world.

Performance metrics as a measure of accountability help to allocate blame when things go badly, but do little to encourage success,28 especially when success requires imagination, innovation, and risk. Indeed, as the economist Frank Knight noted almost a century ago, entrepreneurship entails "immeasurable uncertainty," which is not susceptible to metric calculation.

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Steve did a prepayment on royalties to make sure we had the resources to stay in business

The first business plan is there to make sure you can use Microsoft Word.

Livingston: I know it was your sixth company, but was there anything that you found you were better at? Greenspun: I think I was probably mostly worse at things than I thought. The VCs had a point when they said people remember how you made them feel more than what you said.

Even though it seems like it's big business and impersonal, and "they" take care of it, it really isn't. There is no "they." It always comes down to an "I" of somebody, and in many cases, it's a principal.

Why things happen, I just don't know. Maybe somebody has a need and, in our case, we had a need. That's what triggered the idea. Sometimes ideas are born out of necessity: you solve a problem for yourself, and you hopefully solve it for a number of other people too.

Wozniak: Well, actually we never did much in the garage. People think we had a garage where we sat down with soldering irons and we designed stuff. No.

In short, I'm nervous about everything. If you're doing a startup and you're relaxed, you should be very worried.

This is why I prefer Queens to any other place. The borough of my parents and small business owners is populated by people who know how to work around the system when it tries to fuck you.

You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.