Entrepreneur Quotes - Page 36

People do not mind people who try things and fail. If you're a good entrepreneur, you're not going to succeed in every single thing you try. You've got to try to succeed at more things than fail.

Bakers bake bread, accountants manage accounts and entrepreneurs turn ideas into reality.

If you're looking to become an entrepreneur then don't waste your time going to university or business school - just get on and do it.

Part of the entrepreneurial thing is there are lots of ways to die.

All human beings are entrepreneurs.

I actually think we need to put our energies, as entrepreneurs, as technology inventors, as government, to being much more inclusive. I think the key thing is actually working together.

Now, in economic crises times, the kind of things you're looking at is it's generally harder to get capital, revenue growth may be more, revenue lines may be unstable or growth may be less easy to predict that you're going to get to. And so what you do is you take a certain conservative approach of when, as all entrepreneurs should do, you plan for both good luck and bad luck, you put extra time on, "Okay, if I have bad luck, what do I do about that?"

I don't normally think of like most successful moments, because like most entrepreneurs, I tend to think that however how high of a mountain I've climbed, I'm always looking at the next mountain to climb.

Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you - as entrepreneurs do.

Is it more fascinating, perplexing, unbelievable that women are entrepreneurs?

For sure I see so much in Sudan that is wonderful, normal life - young entrepreneurs starting up NGO projects, kids mucking around and being kids. Everything else that happens in normal life in any part of the world, and we never get that in our media coverage. We only talk about Sudan once it's in crisis, so we end up with a distorted sense of what daily life is like for a lot of people.

Criticism is the best sign you're onto something.

The ethics of excellence requires a sense of perspective. Look at the big picture. If you live for the moment you might mortgage the future? What happens if you put your reputation at risk and lose the bet?

The only right reason to be an entrepreneur is to change the world.

There are many wrong reasons to want to be an entrepreneur. I think there's only one good reason: to change the world.

I like to encourage people who are entrepreneurs-in-waiting.

One has to make a decision when a condition is likely to degenerate if nothing is done.

[Entrepreneurship] is by no means hunch or gamble. But it also is not precisely science. Rather, it is judgment.

Entrepreneurship is “risky” mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.

Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past.

Entrepreneurship rests on a theory of economy and society. The theory sees change as normal and indeed as healthy. And it sees the major task in society – and especially in the economy – as doing something different rather than doing better what is already being done. This is basically what Say, two hundred years ago, meant when he coined the term entrepreneur.

Mrs Thicknesse and I agreed that a business of his own was probably the only solution for him because he was obviously unemployable.

Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.

You have to be entrepreneurial and use your name.

Schumpter's daring and dashing entrepreneur is now a legendary figure from the distant past - if not from the mythology of capitalism - or is to be found only in the demimonde of business, founding new ice cream parlors or "deep freeze subscription clubs".