Entrepreneur Quotes - Page 7

As entrepreneurs, we must continue to ask ourselves 'What's next?' It takes humility to realize that we don't know everything, not to rest on our laurels and know that we must keep learning and observing.

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.

All human beings are born entrepreneurs. Some get a chance to unleash that capacity. Some never got the chance, never knew that he or she has that capacity.

Find someone who is willing to share the truth with you.

I am not primarily an entrepreneurial businessman. I'm primarily a playboy philosopher.

Design your life to minimize reliance on willpower.

Entrepreneurship is the cornerstone to African development and the key to local value creation in Africa. I am determined to ensure that Africa's next generation of entrepreneurs have the platform they need to turn their entrepreneurial aspirations into sustainable businesses that will drive economic growth and job creation across Africa.

If a user is having a problem, it's our problem.

We are currently not planning on conquering the world.

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

The best entrepreneurs know this: every great business is built around a secret that’s hidden from the outside. A great company is a conspiracy to change the world; when you share your secret, the recipient becomes a fellow conspirator.

Do not be concerned that you might set a target too high and fail. Be concerned that you will set it too low and succeed.

Always be willing to look at both sides of the argument. Understanding the other side is the best way to strengthen your own.

If you need a machine and don't buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don't have it.

Stop listening to people telling us we need to hate each other

Sellout... I'm not crazy about the word. We're all entrepreneurs. To me, I don't care if you own a furniture store or whatever - the best sign you can put up is SOLD OUT.

Every choice you make has an end result.

A firm, therefore, consists of the system of relationships which comes into existence when the direction of resources is dependent on an entrepreneur... As a firm gets larger, there may be decreasing returns to the entrepreneur function, that is, the costs of organising additional transactions within the firm may rise.

But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does.

Nobody who bought a drill actually wanted a drill. They wanted a hole. Therefore, if you want to sell drills, you should advertise information about making holes – NOT information about drills!

If you want to be an entrepreneur, it's not a job, it's a lifestyle.

Don't look back and ask, Why? Look ahead and ask, Why not?

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

The future of work consists of learning a living.

I have had some great successes and great failures. I think every entrepreneur has. I try to learn from all of them.