Entrepreneur Quotes - Page 20

Massive elimination is the most important step and the most neglected step for entrepreneurs.

A few years ago, users of Internet services began to realize that when an online service is free, you're not the customer. You're the product.

I tell young entrepreneurs to use the leader in their industry as a benchmark as they work to create their own brand. Dont look at what your competition is doing - if you emulate the leader in your industry, you will achieve a higher level of engagement with consumers and make their buying experience richer.

What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I didn't really know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down. I was a very public failure.

Most people ignore opportunities because they see only danger. Entrepreneurs ignore danger because they see only opportunities.

An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.

Learn to speak by listening.

I would say raising capital is one of the weakest things for most entrepreneurs.

I look for the entrepreneur to capture my attention. If you don't come out with a great presentation, you're dead. That's a big red flag.

Any successful entrepreneur knows that time is more valuable than money itself.

Money isn't what motivates entrepreneurs; it is acknowledgement-a craving for your ideas to be acknowledged.

Not only CAN anyone be an entrepreneur, but they MUST be.

Every individual is essentially now a small business and entrepreneur.

The very act of becoming an entrepreneur is contrarian to middle class values, study hard, get a good job, be happy with secure income and steady salary.

Fair Trade is a market-based, entrepreneurial response to business as usual: it helps third-word farmers developing direct market access as well as the organizational and management capacity to add value to their products and take them directly to the global market. Direct trade, a fair price, access to capital and local capacity-building, which are the core strategies of this model, have been successfully building farmers' incomes and self-reliance for more than 50 years.

A true measure of an entrepreneur / successful-person is how they deal with adversity.

I see myself as a classic middle market entrepreneur, and this is the role I fulfil.

You can be totally committed to conservative principles - to individual liberty, a market economy, entrepreneurship and lower taxes - and still be a Green Conservative. You can believe that with the sound use of science and technology and the right incentives to encourage entrepreneurs, conservatism can provide a better solution for the health of our planet than can liberalism.

Too many start up business fail simply because their owners continue to think and act like employees.

The pace of change for entrepreneurs is rapidly accelerating, and the cost and risk of launching a new business and getting off the ground is just amazing. The ability to gain user feedback really quickly and adapt to what your consumers want is totally different with the web as it is now. But finding a new market, helping people and taking that original idea and turning it into a business is really exciting right now.

We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition.

When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the choice.

One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is that we lie to ourselves. We don't step back and look at ourselves like a competitor would.

In a startup, absolutely nothing happens unless you make it happen.

The consumers suffer when the laws of the country prevent the most efficient entrepreneurs from expanding the sphere of their activities. What made some enterprises develop into "big business" was precisely their success in filling best the demand of the masses.