Entrepreneur Quotes - Page 34

Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.

Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.

A recession is very bad for publicly traded companies, but it's the best time for startups. When you have massive layoffs, there's more competition for available jobs, which means that an entrepreneur can hire freelancers at a lower cost.

Because we weren't having success finding a CEO, our investors insisted that we hire these managers a temporary CEO and CFO. That didn't go great.

I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all enterprises. Labors of love count.

Late at night have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were meant to be? Are you a writer who doesn't write, a painter who doesn't paint, an entrepreneur who never starts a venture? Then you know what Resistance is.

Cancer is the emergent property of the accumulated errors in an ordered system. It's the consequences of random events.

I would like to see additional funding for entrepreneurial development programs.

Artists are just entrepreneurs. It's up to them to figure out how or if they can make a monetary profit from their passion − from their calling, as I discussed above. Sometimes they can. Musicians can sell music, even in the face of piracy. Or they can sell their services − concerts, etc. Painters and other artists can profit in similar ways. A novelist could use kickstarter for a sequel or get paid to consult on a movie version.

I think that my original drive as an entrepreneur was precisely that desire to get away from the image of the shipping magnate's son.

Keeping the mind open to new ideas, not being too anxious about success, putting 100% effort and meditation is the formula for entrepreneurs.

It takes a special kind of stubbornness to succeed as an entrepreneur

I was a nobody when I met with the publisher. Nobody knew who I was. I was doing some speaking for entrepreneurs. I did little groups. I had no following.

Entrepreneurs see the thing they want or need, then try to figure out a process of how to get it. People who shouldn't be entrepreneurs see the standard process they need to go through to get the thing they want or need then decide if they want to go through that process.

Entrepreneurs must be practical experts. They needn't set out to be subject matter experts in what they do; they must set out to solve a problem or pursue some cause or purpose greater than themselves.

The new is threatening to those who have mastered the old.

The government does not and cannot create jobs. Only entrepreneurs do.

We think of prices as simply the notation of how much we must pay for things. But the price system accomplishes far more than that. Hundreds of millions of people buying and selling, and abstaining from buying and selling, generate a system of signals - prices to producers and consumers about relative scarcities and demand. Through this system, consumers can convey to producers their subjective priorities and entrepreneurs can invest accordingly.

For tolls too briefly the sounds of mercy... In fear we ponder the use of thunder for peace

You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome.

We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose.

Most of the time, creative entrepreneurs lose interest long before their marketing message loses its power.

I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.

More process, less innovation. More operations, less innovation. More management, less innovation. More entrepreneurs, more innovation.

All artists are entrepreneurs. All entrepreneurs are artists.