Quotes About Entrepreneur

The sense of possibility so necessary for success comes not just from inside us or from our parents. It comes from our time: from the particular opportunities that our particular place in history presents us with. For a young would-be lawyer, being born in the early 1930's was a magic time, just as being born in 1955 was for a software programmer, or being born in 1835 was for an entrepreneur.

The standard immigrant-entrepreneur story is about the redemptive power of grit and ingenuity.

The sense of possibility so necessary for success comes not just from inside us or from our parents. It comes from our time: from the particular opportunities that our particular place in history presents us with. For a young would-be lawyer, being born in the early 1930s was a magic time, just as being born in 1955 was for a software programmer, or being born in 1835 was for an entrepreneur.

standard immigrant-entrepreneur story is about the redemptive power of grit and ingenuity.

A diligent hawker today, can be a great tycoon tomorrow

making a million dollars is a goal, but being a serial entrepreneur is a system.

I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate.

An entrepreneurial spirit that is sought in the workforce should not be mixed and confused with the spirit that an entrepreneur has got , as there are enough evidences and instances in which a person who has failed as an employee has turned out to be a successful entrepreneur, and vice versa.

There could be no pride on a person's side for spending any length of time at any position with any designation in any organisation as an employee, but there is enough width and depth of pleasure to treasure for spending even a single day in a smallest own firm as an entrepreneur to give employment to many or a single person.

I think I'm very much an entrepreneur, but I know I have the ability to start a company in a lot of ways than other people who are more qualified because I have this existing brand as an actress.

What the entrepreneur gets on 'Dragons' Den' is direct access to people with masses of experience who can actually make quick decisions.

I would say, as an entrepreneur everything you do - every action you take in product development, in marketing, every conversation you have, everything you do - is an experiment. If you can conceptualize your work not as building features, not as launching campaigns, but as running experiments, you can get radically more done with less effort.

The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.

There are a few entrepreneurs whom I look up to. My dad, Ralph Lauren, has definitely evolved into a lifestyle brand of clothing and home furnishings.

In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899.

It would be wonderful to become what Oprah has become: she is in such a class of her own, as an entrepreneur, as a performer and an icon. The idea of building a series of programmes and choosing people that I think have talent to do them would be a very interesting idea. I would love to show that television can have soul, depth and range.

I call myself, 'The Estee Lauder of the garden world.' I'm my own little conglomerate.

In order to be a good director, you also need to be a good entrepreneur because the director is in charge of everything and everyone on the sets.

Since childhood, my mind was wired like that. My mindset was I want to be a businessman.

The original entrepreneur may initiate the initial purpose, but, in a sense, like a parent that has children, the children have their own destiny, and at some point, that can veer off away from the wishes the parent might have for it.

I've witnessed first hand the impact the Benchmark team has had on new ventures, and I believe their commitment to the entrepreneur and dedication to building companies of lasting value really set the firm apart.

Without question, the single most important attribute of a successful entrepreneur is integrity. And that's not some philosophical or theoretical malarkey; it's hard-nosed fact.

First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will.

I think Coran Capshaw is such a brilliant entrepreneur and he always thinks about new stuff; the biggest stuff you can imagine. I know he's working on a lot of things for me at the moment, and I think it will definitely help my career to go to the next level.