Quotes About Entrepreneurship

inspiring. I wanted out of the employee trap so badly that I worked even harder so I could invest more.

In the Information Age and the age of the Internet, millions of people under the age of 30 are getting rich using their imaginations to create apps that change the world—from Facebook to Uber to Snapchat and others. Those with imaginations thrive while those without it are still looking for a job… a job that may soon be replaced by robots and technology.

Ask the seller to throw in a boat or pay your down payment for you. It becomes fun, once you learn the game.

We learned to make money work for us. By not getting paid for our work at the store, we were forced to use our imaginations to identify an opportunity to make money.

had sold a house for $ 60,000 that cost me $ 20,000.

The richest people in the world build networks. Everyone else is trained to look for work.

Nos dedicamos más a adquirir, acaparar y compararnos con los demás que a crear, ayudar y emprender aventuras.

Already so flush that he had invested in his first railroad stock, with cash to spare for the firm, Rockefeller was far more receptive.

Had she stayed in business, she would have been bankrupt within a few years.

Since he never owned more than a third of his company, he needed the cooperation of other people.

Shaped by a childhood of uncertainty, he aspired to be self-sufficient in business

Like the London merchant bankers, the early Jewish bankers on Wall Street had started out as dry-goods merchants: the Lehmans began as Alabama cotton brokers; Goldman, as the owner of a Pennsylvania clothing store, Kuhn and Loeb, as Cincinnati clothiers; and Lazard, in a New Orleans dry-goods business.

Between February 17 and March 28, 1872—between the first rumors of the SIC and the time it was scuttled—Rockefeller swallowed up twenty-two of his twenty-six Cleveland competitors. During

Gates himself invested in several of the companies he managed for Rockefeller, and in 1902 he cashed in a tidy $500,000 profit.

Rockefeller had positioned himself exactly where he wished to be—poised to profit from either surplus or scarcity and all but immune to the vagaries of the marketplace.

but as John D. Rockefeller set about building his fortune, the absence of clear-cut rules probably aided, at first, the creative vigor of the new industrial economy.

I find I already thirst for knowledge about the business.

Undeterred by these extreme gyrations, both Rockefeller and Andrews wanted to borrow heavily and expand, while Clark favored a more circumspect approach.

he had positively no gift, except that of making money.

I do not know of any firm to suggest at the moment, but why not run them ourselves?

No business experience was ever wasted upon Rockefeller.

The big guys like Google weren't always big. Once they were two kids in a garage. Or a dorm room. Some of them set out to be billionaires from the get-go, but some of them didn't. Some of them got just caught up in solving an interesting problem, which happened to be worth billions later.

The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society.

In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.