Entrepreneur Quotes - Page 19

Creativity is as important as literacy.

As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest.

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.

A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can't.

It doesn't matter whether the Dow is 5000 or 50,000. If you're an entrepreneur, there is no bad time to start a company.

The problem with the French is that they have no word for entrepreneur.

To know and not to use is not yet to know!

To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory.

The only reason you should be an entrepreneur is because that's the only way the idea will come into the world.

Entrepreneurs are motivated by independence as well as challenge, knowing they are ultimately responsible for themselves. Monetary success is certainly helpful, but it often becomes more of a score card than anything else.

Experience taught me to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper.

I love to brainstorm. I like to mentor. When you're starting out, especially as an entrepreneur, you really don't know what you're doing. You go out there and you try so many things. The key in the process, to me, is that you keep trying and you never give up.

The greatest success goes to the person who is not afraid to fail in front of even the largest audience.

What does an entrepreneur do? The first thing is they've given themselves permission to see a problem. Most people don't want to see problems ... Once you see a problem and you keep looking at it you'll find an answer.

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

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

Anyone who wants to be an entrepreneur like someone else is actually looking in the wrong direction. You don't look out for inspiration, you look in. You have to ask yourself how can I be better today, at solving the problem I am trying to solve for my company. I wouldn't encourage anyone to be like me. Just be like you.

Women are networkers, women hate hierarchy and especially entrepreneurs hate hierarchy because when they see hierarchy structured in they see rules and regulations are commonplace, and they want to tear it down.

Solve a real problem. You don't start a company because you want to be an entrepreneur or the fame and glory that comes along with it. You become an entrepreneur to solve a real problem.

My father always said working for somebody else never amounted to anything. You have to be an entrepreneur

I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.

If you're going to be a successful entrepreneur, you're going to have to be somebody who can tolerate a high rate of change, you have to be willing to put a lot more hours into it, you have to tolerate the fact that you're going to make more mistakes and have a culture that responds to that.

Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)

Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.