Quotes About Entrepreneur

There was a different, visionary team commitment that guided the black community at the beginning of the 20th century, best envisioned by educator, entrepreneur, and founder of Tuskegee University Booker T. Washington.

What is thus improperly regarded as profit, instead of as part of capital, is consumed by the entrepreneur or passed on either to the consumer in the form of price-reductions that would not otherwise have been made or to the labourer in the form of higher wages, and the government proceeds to tax it as income or profits. In any case, consumption of capital results from the fact that monetary depreciation falsifies capital accounting.

The entrepreneur who is reckoning in terms of a currency with a stable value is unable to compete with the entrepreneur who is prepared to make a quasi-gift of part of his capital to his customers. In 1920 and 1921, Dutch traders who had sold commodities to Austria could buy them back again after a while much cheaper than they had originally sold them, because the Austrian traders completely failed to see that they were selling them for less than they had cost.

True, the entrepreneur is free to give full rein to his whims, to dismiss workers off hand, to cling stubbornly to antiquated processes, deliberately to choose unsuitable methods of production and to allow himself to be guided by motives which conflict with the demands of consumers. But when and in so far as he does this he must pay for it, and if he does not restrain himself in time he will be driven, by the loss of his property, into a position where he can inflict no further damage.

The smaller the input required for the production of an article becomes, the more of the scarce factors of production are left for the production of other articles. But the better an entrepreneur succeeds in this regard, the more is he vilified and the more is he soaked by taxation. Increasing costs per unit of output, that is, waste, is praised as a virtue.

The most important job of an entrepreneur is to design the business before there is a business.

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

Somebody who's designing something for himself has at least got a market of one that he's very close to.

When I was a kid, I thought I would be an entrepreneur and maybe at some point go into law school.

It's very difficult for an entrepreneur to let go. It's very hard to sell a successful business. People sometimes hold on until the business has no value at all.

In the morning at home, I'm not functioning as an entrepreneur - I completely limit technology and any work-think - I'm functioning as a mom and a wife.

I couldn't care less who is mad at me as long as the entrepreneur comes out ahead.

I'm a marketing genius.

Buffett has become the entrepreneur whom progressives endlessly flatter, because he flatters their prejudices and

where the main job of the entrepreneur is to define the mission, find and inspire the team, and lead.

the successful entrepreneur's unique ability to turn trying times into triumphs.

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

Every entrepreneur deals with fears of failure. However, the truly successful know how to face these fears and keep on working.

An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.

My fear drives me. My faith directs me. I am an entrepreneur.

Will Hamilton was a very substantial businessman. No one knew exactly how many pies his thumb had explored, but it was known that he was a clever and comparatively rich man.

You know who a complicated tax code kills? The guy or gal trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home. So we've got to simplify our tax code.

A company's culture is the foundation for future innovation. An entrepreneurs job is to build the foundation

Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.