Entrepreneur Quotes

• A successful entrepreneur can't be afraid of failures or setbacks. An initial setback can be a great opportunity to take a new and more promising approach to any problem, to come back stronger than ever.

  

  John Roos
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Entrepreneur

• Growing up in a family of doctors, I wanted to be a brain surgeon for a while. But ultimately, I get most excited about creating things, which is why I decided to become an entrepreneur.

  

  Alexa Von Tobel
  • Up
  • Family
  • Why

• Give me an entrepreneur with a lot of courage, gusto and who iterates rapidly, and I will back that person day in and day out.

  

  Douglas Leone
  • Courage
  • Entrepreneur

• Before running for Congress, I was an innovator and entrepreneur who founded several high-tech businesses that created hundreds of jobs and schools that found ways to serve those children that traditional schools couldn't.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Children
  • High
  • Running

• A social entrepreneur is somebody who knows how to make an idea reality, and one of the great ideas of our time is pluralism. Can people from different backgrounds live together in mutual peace and loyalty? And what we need is a generation of young social entrepreneurs who know how to make that great idea reality in an historical moment where religious extremists are, frankly, making their idea reality.

  

  Eboo Patel
  • Reality
  • Loyalty
  • Pluralism

• 'Insatiable', the album, was more of a project, really... it was more like a songwriting excursion and an exclusive deal that hadn't really ever been done that often before... me being like, 'ooh I'm an entrepreneur', rather than 'this is my singing career'.

  

  Nadine Coyle
  • Done
  • Career
  • Singing

• Being a lifestyle entrepreneur is about building a business around your lifestyle rather than a lifestyle around your business. You need to figure out what your ideal lifestyle is first.

  

  Lewis Howes
  • Business
  • Entrepreneur

• I want to create an environment where I can create technology, get it into the hands of someone to market it, and move on to other technologies so I can keep innovating. I want to be a serial entrepreneur: Incubate an idea, get it to a good state, and make that an enabler to get to the next state. It's every researcher's fantasy.

  

  Jefferson Han
  • Good
  • Technology
  • Environment

• The American lionization of the entrepreneur is to ignore its foibles - the narcissism, the workaholism, the neglect of family, the imbalance, the obsession. These are not universally good things, though they are frequently universal to building great companies.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Good
  • Great
  • Family

• Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.

  

  Joseph A. Schumpeter
  • Value
  • Entrepreneur

• It's not easy for an entrepreneur to find the time to blog. But for those who do it, it is a great tool to communicate with the various stakeholders in their business and build a reputation for thought leadership.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Business

• We didn't grow up in a jock household. In fact, my dad is an entrepreneur. He was a computer programmer; he was a professor of actuarial science at Wharton for 13 years, then started his own company that was software-based.

  

  Tyler Winklevoss
  • Up
  • Science
  • Dad

• I've never really thought of myself as an entrepreneur. I think of an entrepreneur as someone who wants to make a lot of money. That has never been at the top of my list.

  

  James Goodnight
  • Money
  • Entrepreneur

• 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.

  

  Vivek Wadhwa
  • Trying
  • Giving
  • Successful

• I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

  

  Sean Parker
  • Imagination
  • Suffering
  • Delusion

• I became an entrepreneur as a child. I liked the art of the deal whether I was mowing lawns or selling candy or promoting clubs at the age of 16. I understood early on the importance of knowing my numbers and surrounding myself with the best people.

  

  Marcus Lemonis
  • People
  • Art
  • Age

• I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist , but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning. I always imagined cartooning would be how I got my seed capital. I always thought my other businesses would be the less dominant part of my life.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Seeds
  • Defined
  • Dominant

• No first-time entrepreneur has the business network of contacts needed to succeed. An incubator should be well integrated into the local business community and have a steady source of contacts and introductions.

  

  Jay Samit
  • Time
  • Business
  • Community

• A successful entrepreneur is one who recognizes her blind spots. You may be the world's best engineer, but you probably have never run a 10-person sales force. You may be a brilliant marketer, but how do you structure a cap table?

  

  Jay Samit
  • World
  • May
  • Sales

• There are no checks and balances if the gov is wrong, if a private entrepreneur makes a mistake, he goes bankrupt, the losses are cut, if he bets wrong, he loses, if the gov bets wrong, they just get bigger, they just appropriate more money, it's a bottomless pit, because they either get it from the tax payers or run it off a printing press.

  

  Peter Schiff
  • Money
  • Mistake
  • Entrepreneur

• Without question, the single most important attribute of a successful entrepreneur is integrity. And that's not some philosophical or theoretical malarkey; it's hard-nosed fact.

  

  David S. Rose
  • Important
  • Question
  • Single

• When I was a kid, I thought I would be an entrepreneur and maybe at some point go into law school.

  

  Aja Brown
  • School
  • Law
  • Entrepreneur

• About 10 million people start a business each year, and about one out of two will make it. The average entrepreneur is often on his or her third startup.

  

  Brad D. Smith
  • People
  • Business
  • Entrepreneur

• I think a good entrepreneur has a very clear grasp of what the goal is, an unwavering sense of the goal, an utterly agile approach of getting there.

  

  John Katzman
  • Good
  • Entrepreneur

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