Quotes About Entrepreneurship

If someone is doing that, saving the customer money, is making a profit so bad?

If you want to grow a business, you want to make profit. Only then it is good business.

You will always need more capital than you think, because it will always take you longer to reach profitability than you can imagine.

I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

My thing is to have a good, profitable company, for it to be 100% owned independently.

There is nothing to be embarrassed about being profitable.

I built a huge profitable business with no debt.

Our first fiscal year, we were profitable.

I didn't want to take anybody else's money. I wanted to do something small that could be profitable from the beginning, and grow that way - and never need someone to write me a check to keep the business going.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don't eat. And I like to eat.

All of my businesses are profitable.

When you're finished, bars are not inherently profitable. You got to work at them to make them profitable.

Nothing communicates with the people who make real decisions in Hollywood like spending your own money and showing that you can make profitable films.

I was happy buying and selling gold in bars, as it is easier and profitable.

My heart has always been in programming and marketing.

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.

In the mid-to-late 1990s, I was an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Kauffman Foundation working with Jana Matthews on 'learning programs for high growth entrepreneurs.'

I think economics is about passion. Economic progress, whether it is a two-person coffee shop or whether it is Netscape, is about people with brave ideas. Because it is brave to mortgage the house, when you've got two kids, to start a coffee shop.

And people who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don't.

I am very conservative. I don't invest in anything that is risky. If someone comes to me with a project idea, I let them risk their money, not mine.

Well, I got to have a project. I'm not a blue-sky guy at all. I'd never let anybody like me loose in a company.

Go find out if you can make your product. Once you make it, stop projecting what's going to happen and go find out whether your product can sell. Find out whether someone is willing to take hard-earned cash out of their pocket and exchange it for your product.

I was lucky enough to co-found a business in college that ended up with 400 employees, and I launched 20 different projects while I was there - a project a week.

We have an audience, the ability to fund our own projects, own our own projects, the ability to display our projects unencumbered by any middlemen. That's the perfect scenario.