Entrepreneur Quotes - Page 33

The market is sovereign and in the magic economy of the small entrepreneur there is no authoritarian center... in the political sphere... the equilibrium of powers prevails, and hence there is no chance of despotism.

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The companies that I really admire the most are the ones that have a deep visceral understanding of why people use their service, and they figure out ways of making money that are completely consistent with how people are feeling and what they are doing at the time.

In terms of formal education, I may somewhat lacking. I never finished school. I am a self-taught entrepreneur, that's the best kind there is, trust me

In America, everybody thinks they're an entrepreneur. That's the problem. It's not a title that anybody should call oneself.

Successful entrepreneurs figure out when to drive their ideas forward and when to listen to constructive criticism.

Every entrepreneur deals with fears of failure. However, the truly successful know how to face these fears and keep on working.

I pay for things cause I want that slight edge over others.

Never shame to hear what you have nobly done

Courage and comfort, all shall yet go well

The brilliant creative core of capitalism ... is the story the entrepreneurs and capital investors tell themselves about the future. How they intend to alter it, what they expect to gain in return, where they will raise the capital to accomplish their vision. Many of their stories turn out to be flawed or mistaken, of course, but the capacity to envision a set of future events and then act to fulfill them is a central source of capitalism's strength and its dominance of society.

"Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.

Just having a great product won't take you anywhere.

Socratic question: all plans? Some? Which ones? How do they do so?

True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices under conditions of uncertainty, not about assuming plans can remove risk.

The best Startups don't create noise. They create a gravitational pull.

Most successful entrepreneurs share their knowledge as a way of giving back. They do not demand compensation. Those who do are usually trying to take advantage of you.

One of the biggest hurdles in the path of entrepreneurship is home loans!

Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical decisions rather than company-building decisions and in my view often reduces the probability of success.

Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know.

I'm not calling for redistributing wealth; I'm calling for reinvigorating our stuck energy sector, so some new entrepreneurs can create some new wealth.

Beethoven and Michelangelo, who sold their artworks for profit, were entrepreneurs and capitalists.

Big businesses can help by engaging aspiring entrepreneurs and promoting initiatives which support small businesses from within.

My half-baked reading of history is that we continue to go through these waves of entrepreneurial explosion followed by merger mania and consolidation. Out of that come big sluggish companies that eventually collapse under the weight of what they've created, and are killed off by the next wave of entrepreneurs.

Remember: You are the only human being in the world who can help this particular customer at this particular moment in time.