Entrepreneur Quotes - Page 10

It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.

You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you.

Entrepreneurs are always super optimistic. If they weren't they wouldn't be entrepreneurs.

The key role of entrepreneurs, like the most crucial role of scientists, is not to fill in the gaps in an existing market or theory, but to generate entirely new markets or theories. . .They stand before a canvas as empty as any painter's; a page as blank as any poet's.

The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Mastermind and collaborate with other smart entrepreneurs if they have futures that are even bigger than their present.

If you are going to go through hell, keep going

An entrepreneur is born with the mentality to take risks, though there are several important characteristics: courage, faith in yourself, and above all, even when you fail, to learn from failure and get up and try again.

Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.

Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and a limited future.

If you're going to be an entrepreneur... it's not all textbook. It's gut feeling, it's intuition, it's a feeling you have that you can do this and make it happen. I think you have to have a personality.

Without a vision there is no possibility of creating something larger than what al-ready exists. An entrepreneur has to be able to bring something to the table through his or her vision that is not being provided by others - a special way of meeting needs, caring for others, treating patients, or marketing. An entrepreneur must have enormous faith. Risk-taking is critical to the development of an enterprise. You will not take risks unless you have the faith to do so.

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

Where would the Rockefellers be today if old John D. had gone on selling short-weight kerosene ... to widows and orphans instead of wisely deciding to mulct the whole country.

One of the best skills of an entrepreneur is the ability to question. By asking new questions, new answers are found.

It is human nature, especially as we get older, to look for stability in our lives. But if you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you have to fight against that somewhat, as starting a business requires movement. You cannot stay still.

All successful people - not just entrepreneurs - have got things wrong over and over again before finding the right solution.

I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.

The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction. The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.

Every startup should address a real and demonstrated need in the world. If you build a solution to a problem lots of people have, it's so easy to sell your product to the world.

You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.

Civilization is the intelligent management of human emotions.

The real risk is doing nothing.

An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made.