Entrepreneur Quotations

As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.

In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.

When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.

Every venture capitalist says at some point, 'I wish I could run this company myself' -- to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor.

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.

We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion.

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.

An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.

Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck.

You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.

I want to be an entrepreneur too; I like the business side of things. When I was younger I wanted to be a vet or a tightrope walker. But I have no sense of balance and I can't bear animals dying, so I abandoned both ideas.

I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it's one. Every year of his life Zuckerberg has been making $1 billion for investors.

If Google teaches you anything, it's that small ideas can be big.

The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps.

People ask, 'Are entrepreneurs born, or are they made?' I think it's a combination of both.

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputations on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.

Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing.

As an entrepreneur, I try to push the limits. Pedal to the metal.

Entrepreneurs have the flexibility and the ability to do things that large companies simply cannot. Could a large company pull off a trick like Amyris, going from anti-malaria medicine to next-generation fuel?

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.

Nothing turns off an investor more than when an entrepreneur comes in with a ridiculous valuation.

If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going.

I don't like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created something to make a good living.

What is great about entrepreneurship is that entrepreneurs create the tangible from the intangible.

Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.

I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day.

But economic recovery must be earned. And it will be earned by entrepreneurs and it will be earned by small businesses.

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.

Entrepreneurs, guys that start businesses, grow with them. It's more painful than it would appear.

At a certain point in your career - I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one.

Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical decisions rather than company-building decisions and in my view often reduces the probability of success.

Conventional wisdom suggests the primary motivator for entrepreneurs is money or wealth creation and, in fact, much of the political debate tends to center around what kind of tax or regulatory policy changes will turn corporate suits into small business adventurers overnight.

I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.

One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty.

Location is the key to most businesses, and the entrepreneurs typically build their reputation at a particular spot.

Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That's the classic great entrepreneur.

I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.

You know, as most entrepreneurs do, that a company is only as good as its people. The hard part is actually building the team that will embody your company culture and propel you forward.

I've always been an entrepreneur, but it's never been about the money. I like a challenge, the harder the better.

I don't want to be known as a serial entrepreneur. I like doing one thing at a time and making sure that gets my full attention until it's well established. I enjoy the initial years of a company because they are the most dynamic, and that is when I can give the best of myself.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.

I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.

There are a lot of people building small ideas now. There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.

You can't be an entrepreneur and work in a public company anymore.

I don't think that ambition should not be in the dictionary of entrepreneurs. But our ambition should be realistic. You have to realise that you can't do everything.

I believe photos is one of the underlying things in every social network that becomes successful.

There is much that public policy can do to support American entrepreneurs. Health insurance reform will make it easier for entrepreneurs to take a chance on a new business without putting their family's health at risk. Tort reform will make it easier to take prudent risks on new products in a number of sectors.

It's not easy for an entrepreneur to find the time to blog. But for those who do it, it is a great tool to communicate with the various stakeholders in their business and build a reputation for thought leadership.

I like to encourage people who are entrepreneurs-in-waiting.

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

A savvy entrepreneur will not always look for investment money, first.

We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.

Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur.

I hate the title of being called 'the richest woman in India,' but it's the recognition that this was the value that I had created as a woman entrepreneur, and that makes me very, very proud.

The best entrepreneurs I've ever met are all good communicators. It's perhaps one of the very few unifying factors.

But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does.

Entrepreneurs have a great ability to create change, be flexible, build companies and cultivate the kind of work environment in which they want to work.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

At the end of our lives we all ask, did i live? Did i love? Did i matter?

I have had some great successes and great failures. I think every entrepreneur has. I try to learn from all of them.

The payouts for starting a business are just terrible when you account for risk. A tiny minority of entrepreneurs ever get rich. And the majority of entrepreneurs would probably make far more money, and have more stable personal relationships, if they just worked for someone else.

Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as 'the X of Y,' so this is going to be 'the Microsoft of food.' And yet disruptive innovations usually don't have that character. Most of the time, if something seems like a good idea, it probably isn't.

Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world

Part of the challenge of being an entrepreneur, if you're going for a really huge opportunity, is trying to find problems that aren't quite on the radar yet and try to solve those

I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist , but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning. I always imagined cartooning would be how I got my seed capital. I always thought my other businesses would be the less dominant part of my life.

I think when I was on the corporate ladder, it was very difficult to maintain the hours. It's a little easier when you have you're an entrepreneur.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.

I've known entrepreneurs who were not great salespeople, or didn't know how to code, or were not particularly charismatic leaders. But I don't know of any entrepreneurs who have achieved any level of success without persistence and determination.

You can never be satisfied as an entrepreneur, and the basis of any successful, growing business is new clients.

I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.

The thing most people don't pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It's 24/7.

Just as entrepreneurs developed America, they can develop other countries, too.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Internet entrepreneurs are using technology at every level of their company - from a one-person agency to a small firm, the newest technological advances are interwoven throughout every aspect of Internet-based businesses.

Imagine the world of mobile based on Nokia and Motorola if Apple had not been restarted by a missionary entrepreneur named Steve Jobs who cared more for his vision than being tactical and financial.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

It's easy to say that entrepreneurs will create jobs and big companies will create unemployment, but this is simplistic. The real question is who will innovate.

Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

The companies that I really admire the most are the ones that have a deep visceral understanding of why people use their service, and they figure out ways of making money that are completely consistent with how people are feeling and what they are doing at the time.

The world's most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder.

Just like any business is a living, breathing thing, an entrepreneur has to be able to adapt over time.

There's a lot of pressure to look like the last company that was successful.

I find that many entrepreneurs are trying to do everything when it would be cheaper and more time-efficient to delegate, even if there are monetary costs associated with that.

Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners.

The classic problem as an entrepreneur is that they have a hard time delegating. But that's really crazy. Recruiting other executives is critical, so is dealing with customers and dealing with regulators. Those are functions that only the top founders can do.

Most successful entrepreneurs share their knowledge as a way of giving back. They do not demand compensation. Those who do are usually trying to take advantage of you.

Any self-respecting entrepreneur has borrowed money from their mother at some point.

I'd rather invest in an entrepreneur who has failed before than one who assumes success from day one.

My father, one of the great entrepreneurs and philanthropists of this state, taught me that capital - monetary or political - is to be used to benefit others. I intend to continue that tradition.

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

Today as an entrepreneur you have more options.

A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur asked me a question sometime ago, he said, 'When is the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler?' I think it's a great question. I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging.

Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.

We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.