Entrepreneur Quotes - Page 16

If you do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got. If what you are doing is not working, do something else.

No one wants advice - only corroboration.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

The quality of a good leader therefore is his vision, tenacity, and his capability.

Giving up is the greatest failure.

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

Most of what I learned as an entrepreneur was by trial and error.

We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.

The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.

If you want to understand entrepreneurs, you have to study the psychology of the juvenile delinquent. They don't have the same anxiety triggers that we have.

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Many Chinese entrepreneurs are now donating for education; others support foundations in health care and research. None of us wants to be the richest guy in the cemetery.

Mark Zuckerberg will be a hero to many young entrepreneurs 20 years from now. Bill Gates will be a hero to others, and they will look to those [people] like I read books when I was in my teens about Rockefeller or Carnegie.

First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.

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

Sometimes women entrepreneurs are their own challenge, [in terms of] believing in themselves. There is no need to apologise for being ambitious.

To never forget that the most important thing in life is the quality of life we lead.

There's an old chestnut that asks whether an entrepreneur is born or made and I think it's a combination of both. You need the talent; without the talent you can't do it.

Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts.

Simple, not easy. There's a difference.

I wasn't born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

These 3 topics will always generate 100+ comments of irrational/ridiculous people: Taxes, tipping, and spending on weddings.

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e. companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.

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.

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