Entrepreneur Quotes - Page 25

My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.

A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur asked me a question sometime ago, he said, 'When is the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler?' I think it's a great question. I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging.

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.

No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball; he will crash. That’s why they call it rewriting.

I'm not sure I knew what an entrepreneur was when I was ten, but I knew that starting little businesses and trying to sell greeting cards or newspapers door-to-door or just vending machine kind of thing is.. there's just something very intriguing to me about that.

The idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges.

Emails get reactions. Phone calls start conversations.

Embrace what you don`t know

An entrepreneur needs to have values. Values that are wholesome.

I invest because I love helping entrepreneurs and watching them learn and succeed. In my opinion your motives are driven by self serving factors around ego satisfaction and "making a buck". My motives and values are very different.

Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing.

A great part of this life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.

If you cannot sell, you cannot be an entrepreneur. If you cannot sell, you cannot raise money. if the thought of sales terrifies you, get a job at a dept. store and start there. Or get a job with a company like Xerox that requires that you go around to businesses and knock on doors. As your courage increases, you may want to try a company in network marketing or direct sales that is willing to train you.

If you aren’t practicing and playing to be first, then maybe you shouldn’t be an entrepreneur.

Success is not in what you have, but who you are.

As an entrepreneur, you've got to protect against the company going bust. And as an adventurer, you've got to protect against losing your life. It's even more important as an adventurer to get it right.

An entrepreneur is somebody who is taking bold risks, is often doing things that have never been done before, trying to do things better. And an adventurer is challenging themselves, often doing things that have never been done before, seeing what they're capable of. In both cases, you've got to protect against the downside.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

LEARN FROM FAILURE. If you are an entrepreneur and your first venture wasn't a success, welcome to the club.

All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.

I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.

I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.

Microloans enable the poor to lift themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship.

Planning is actually incompatible with an entrepreneurial society and economy. Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.

We tend to use a new technology to do an old task more efficiently. We pave the cow paths.