Entrepreneur Quotes - Page 31

It horrifies me how much it costs to put on shows now, mainly due to EU regulations. The freedom to be entrepreneurial is no longer there. It's a massive business now.

Government aid impedes success and creates dependence, while entrepreneurs create success and independence.

Good entrepreneurs can manage, but no one but an entrepreneur can entrepreneur, let alone help build and lead the world's community of leading social entrepreneurs and their top business entrepreneur allies.

The world's most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder.

You can't study to be an entrepreneur. Sometimes, you just have to jump.

We [entrepreneurs] required that you leave us free to function -- free to think and work as we choose ... -- free to earn our own profits and make our own fortunes ... Such was the price we asked, which you chose to reject as too high.

Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors.

Excuses are useless. Results are priceless.

The worst example of rural poverty is that of migrant farm workers. They have no permanent jobs, so they have no equity in the places where they work. They're not shareholders, let alone entrepreneurs. They're not small farmers, they're not market gardeners, they're just temporary - uprooted, isolated, easily exploitable people.

OLD: Be No.1 or No.2 in Your Market. NEW: Find a Niche, Create Something New.

That’s why people who seek out group flow often join startups or work for themselves. Serial entrepreneurs keep starting new business as much for the flow experience, as for the additional success.

In the entrepreneurial world, when you launch a company, you have a particular idea, a particular product, a particular service, almost always you pivot, you shift. The market reacts to your initial idea. You make some adjustments. It's only after making a few adjustments that you see the success.

I don't want to be known as a serial entrepreneur. I like doing one thing at a time and making sure that gets my full attention until it's well established. I enjoy the initial years of a company because they are the most dynamic, and that is when I can give the best of myself.

When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?

Any time we would talk to another VC, our investors would talk him out of it: 'This is not a good company'... So we were really stuck with our existing investors for the next round.

Entrepreneurs, because they need money, they are willing to share their crystal ball with someone like me. That's the best thing ever.

A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them.

In times of recession there are massive opportunities and fortunes to be made, so for new up and coming entrepreneurs, this is the time to go and start a business.

The Church is a mother, not an entrepreneur.

People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs.

If someone asks you for something, provide them with a clear "No" or a delivery date.

Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen.

Well you'd see a very dramatic change in the perspective of small businesses, entrepreneurs, middle-size businesses, and perhaps even some large multinationals. They'd say, you know what, America looks like a good place to invest again, a good place to take risk, a good place to hire again.

We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.

I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day.