Entrepreneur Quotes
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It is preferable to regard labour, including, of course, the personal services of the entrepreneur, and his assistants, as the sole factor of production, operating in a given environment of technique, natural resources, capital equipment and effective demand. This is why we have been able to take labour as the sole physical unit which we require in our economic system, apart from units of money and of time.
John Maynard Keynes
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The main thing to know about me is that I'm a champion of entrepreneurs and the startups they build. They are my rock stars. If in doubt, I side with them, and that's clear from my writing.
Michael Arrington
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Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business.
Peter Diamandis
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You know, being an entrepreneur is super hard work, and if you're not passionate about what you're doing, you're probably not going to succeed.
Jeff Raikes
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He was a man too busy to flush toilets.
Mona Simpson
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An entrepreneur is someone who will jump off a cliff and assemble an airplane on the way down.
Reid Hoffman
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Superior quality is a prerequisite to entering the game. By definition, an entrepreneur is undercapitalized relative to the status quo. Therefore, if you enter a product that is either at parity with the leaders, or not as good, you won't even get to the starting line.
Gary Hirshberg
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The true entrepreneur is a doer.
Nolan Bushnell
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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.
Van Jones
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An entrepreneur is someone that steals office supplies from home and brings them to work.
Auren Hoffman
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Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.
Arthur Erickson
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The key role of entrepreneurs, like the most crucial role of scientists, is not to fill in the gaps in an existing market or theory, but to generate entirely new markets or theories. . .They stand before a canvas as empty as any painter's; a page as blank as any poet's.
George Gilder
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As an entrepreneur you have responsibilities in trying to operate well in what you have to do. There is a positive effect if you end up doing that. That’s where I try to spend most of my efforts.
John Elkann
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As an entrepreneur, you never stop learning.
Daymond John
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Young entrepreneurs will make a difference in the Indian ecosystem.
Ratan Tata
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I think the reality is that it's never been a better time to be an entrepreneur, it's never been a better time to work at a startup. You work at a really intellectually free environment, you get to work with people who are like-minded, it's very energetic. It's wonderful.
Chamath Palihapitiya
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"Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.
William Gibson
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Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know.
Vinod Khosla
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Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.
Tom Allen
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As an entrepreneur, if you're the originator, you need to be faster than ever.
Niklas Zennstrom
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Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That's the classic great entrepreneur.
Mohnish Pabrai
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The key to being a good manager or a good entrepreneur is to pick the right people. Pick the right people, and they'll make you look good.
Joe Gibbs
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Most people ignore opportunities because they see only danger. Entrepreneurs ignore danger because they see only opportunities.
Simon Sinek
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I have had some great successes and great failures. I think every entrepreneur has. I try to learn from all of them.
Kevin O'Leary