Entrepreneur Quotes - Page 18

It's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window.

When things are at their worst, I find something always happens.

I was trying to be an entrepreneur at seven years old.

You know you're gonna have failures, there's no way to avoid it. Especially if you're an entrepreneur, if you're doing something new, of course there are gonna be mistakes. How can you not make mistakes? You don't know what you're going; it's unchartered territory.

Then get busy and find out how to do it.

The term ‘free market’ is really a euphemism. What the far right actually means by this term is ‘lawless market.’ In a lawless market, entrepreneurs can get away with privatizing the benefits of the market (profits) while socializing its costs (like pollution).

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.

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

It seems to me to be important to distinguish a good idea from poor implementations of it

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

To be a real entrepreneur you always have to be looking forward. The moment you rest on your laurels is the moment your competition overtakes you.

If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.

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

I'm a writer. I could not or would not ever run a business. I don't even have a secretary. And contrary to some of the stereotypes, entrepreneurs are not loners. I am.

People tell you keep your job, start the company on the side. If I'm doing it on the side, then probably one of the reasons it fails is because I didn't dedicate enough time to it.

I treat business a bit like a computer game. I count money as points. I'm doing really well: making lots of money and lots of points.

I think the hallmark of a really good entrepreneur is that you're not really going to build one specific company. The goal - at least the way I think about entrepreneurship - is you realize one day that you can't really work for anyone else. You have to start your own thing. It almost doesn't matter what that thing is.

Our tax policies, the tax relief and reform we passed in 2003 and 2005, helped get government out of the way of America's entrepreneurs, and our unemployment rate is now lower than it was in the 1970s, the 1980s, and the 1990s.

Emotion is contagious.

Hire people who intimidate you.

An entrepreneur cannot be trained. A man becomes and entrepreneur by seizing an opportunity and filling the gap. No special education is required for such a display of keen judgment, foresight, and energy.

Without entrepreneurs, economies become poor and weak. The old will not exist, the new can't enter

Society can't wait. It's sad there are so many entrepreneurs, business successes and venture capitalists who give no thought to society.

Founded on the principles of private initiative, entrepreneurship and self-employment, underpinned by the values of democracy, equality and solidarity, the co-operative movement can help pave the way to a more just and inclusive economic order.

Once in a while, I see my fellow TV investors praise a business just because they like the entrepreneur behind it. That kind of thinking might make you feel warm and fuzzy inside - but let's get back to reality.