Quotes About Entrepreneurship

He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible.

I had difficulty working for other people.

I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.

I had the idea for TaskRabbit one night when my husband and I were getting ready for dinner.

I didn't want to sit around and wait for someone to discover me, so I created my own self through the Internet.

I look up to Walt Disney and what he has done.

The commercial space industry is enormous and ripe for disruption.

Proud 2 Pay - that's something that distinguishes me, that's something that defines me, and we're going to keep that going.

A lot of times, I can put a product together with a distributor when I go into my Rolodex for distributors. I can then put it together with a face, such as an artist. And then I can go into my databank of retailers and people that I've been working with through the years of retail, and then also manufacturing.

I have divided my week among my various businesses. So that way, I am able to concentrate on all of them as well as my film work.

When people ask if I have any advice for young designers, the best advice I could ever give to somebody is to work for someone else, when you are playing with someone else's money. It is very expensive when you start doing it on your own.

Running a business is incredibly hard, especially as a creative person, because you're extricated from the creative very quickly, and that is really hard. Obviously, I have experienced that first hand.

My expertise is running businesses.

Think about all of the non-entrepreneurial advice and resources you need when building a company. You need lawyers, accountants, financial experts.

When I explained my business model to my family, they asked if I was going to open a travel agency.

I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, I know how it can help from time- to-time.

Our business has been extraordinarily lean from the beginning.

We try to say it's creative and in a manner it is creative, but it is a business, because today, with the cost factor in crossing the boundaries that you do.

The deciding factor of why some entrepreneurs are successful and others fail is not limited to your DNA or your education; it is about the actions you take as the leader of your business.

If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.

When you have your own business, you don't mind failing if it makes you better in the long run.

Capitalism is part of our system, but it's not for the faint of heart.

This concept that starting a company is so hard and that you'll never make it is conspiracy concocted by the rich and powerful to keep you from trying - and you've fallen for it.

When I meet with most entrepreneurial teams, I ask them a simple question: How do you know that you're making progress? Most of them really can't answer that question.