Entrepreneur Quotes - Page 17

The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.

If you don't have jobs, it's hard to have other things like health and education.

People ask me all the time, 'How can I become a successful entrepreneur?' And I have to be honest: It's one of my least favorite questions, because if you're waiting for someone else's advice to become an entrepreneur, chances are you're not one.

Business is more exciting than any game.

There's a new generation of entrepreneurs in the Valley who have arrived since 2000, after the dotcom bust. They're completely fearless.

Where can we take no the product, but the idea?

How do entrepreneurs survive their early failures? They don't view their failures as failures - they view these experiences as feedback, and a prelude to future success.

There is a lot more young Indian entrepreneurs can do if they are given the money. They have the idea, and I would just like to help them realise it.

...countries don't create economies. It is entrepreneurs and companies that create and revitalize economies. The role of the governments should be to create a nourishing environment for entrepreneurs and companies to flourish, not to get in the way of economic development.

God has the tough end of the deal. What if instead of planting the seed you had to make the tree? That would keep you up late at night, trying to figure that one out.

Showing a profit means touching something and leaving it better than you found it.

Entrepreneurship is the ability to create and build from a vision practically anything; fundamentally it is a human, creative act.

The challenge is not just to build a company that can endure; but to build one that is worthy of enduring.

Dont buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind.

Success should stem from entrepreneurial creativity, not political connectivity.

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.

While profit remains the final goal, entrepreneurs spend the better part of each day figuring out how better to serve the needs of their actual and potential customers. They are operationally, if not intentionally, altruistic.

The path to the mountain ahead of you? is not the path you took to the mountain you stand on.

As an entrepreneur at heart, I am excited to see so many new opportunities, and I am honoured to accept this opportunity to help shape the next stage of HTC's development.

Entrepreneurship is the art of finding profitable solutions to problems.

Just because you are the loudest, doesn't make you right.

The most challenging thing for a young entrepreneur is to think long-term. When you are 22 years old, it’s hard to think in 22-year increments since that’s as long as you’ve been alive. But it’s really important to view your life as an entrepreneur as a long journey that consists of many short-term cycles.

Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.

If you pursued something that you felt strongly about, then I call that success.

All of my friends were doing babysitting jobs. I wanted money without the job.