Quotes About Entrepreneurship

It's not about the money. Its about creating a business out of your life's purpose and mission.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade and sell it to all of those who get thirsty from complaining.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

Don't open a shop unless you know how to smile.

George Westinghouse, like Edison, thought money was important only as a form of "stored energy" to use as he wished in his work and expand his businesses. He was interested not in being rich, but in helping the world. He strove incessantly to deliver better, more reliable products.

Employees take weekends off, entrepreneurs dont.

Own the place. Act as if you started (or own) the business; this will create added focus, commitment, inspiration and guidance to crafting the right culture.

Nearly every time I strayed from the herd, I've made a lot of money. Wandering away from the action is the way to find the new action.

I've heard of women who started beauty parlors in a spare room, or thrift shops, or who took courses to become real-estate brokers. Others have special talents or college training that they can put to use on a part-time basis. Any woman can start a childcare center.

According to company legend, here's how Southwest Airlines was born. Back in the late 1960s, "a couple of guys said, 'Here's an idea. Why don't we start an airline that charges just a few bucks and has lots of flights every day instead of what the other guys are doing—charging a lot of bucks and having just a few flights each day?

Some, like Lorne, who ran the Three Ps—the shop for paper, printing, and postage—went on as they had before.

He considers it his duty to help these founders understand the futility of persevering, so these brilliant people can move on to more worthwhile opportunities. The first obstacle Conway faces is the most obvious one: getting founders to actually recognize that the venture is failing and that it's time for them to walk away. Conway is battling the host of cognitive and motivational forces that make it hard for these entrepreneurs to do that.

My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.

I co-founded Affectiva with Professor Rosalind W. Picard when we spun out of MIT Media Lab in 2009. I acted as Chief Technology and Science Officer for several years until becoming CEO mid-2016, one of a handful of female CEOs in the AI space.

My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.

Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.

Profit, wealth creation, competition - these are not dirty words but the lifeblood of a dynamic economy.

I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.

Kickstarter isn't a profit center, it's an organizer and an instigator.

A movie that costs only $1.6 million doesn't have to be a cultural event to turn a profit.

I don't do something necessarily to make a big profit or because it's a logical business decision.

Lots of people have plenty of ideas; lots of people have plenty of money, but in the end, if you want to turn that money into profit, you have to do it through others.

Traditional businesses can say, 'We're going to sell widgets to people, and it will make X amount of profit.' But new business models are hard.

We have multiple businesses, and obviously we want every one to stand on its own, and what you don't want to do is manage one business from the profit of the other one.