Entrepreneur Quotes
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My parents were entrepreneurs. They ran a small ad agency in upstate New York.
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Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.
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We look for the scrappy entrepreneur: the kind of person who will get things done without looking to spend money right away.
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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.
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Young entrepreneurs will make a difference in the Indian ecosystem.
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Giving customers and prospects a glimpse into the entrepreneur's life and mindset can allow them to cultivate a deeper relationship with customers separately from the brand.
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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.
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An entrepreneur is someone that steals office supplies from home and brings them to work.
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Nothing turns off an investor more than when an entrepreneur comes in with a ridiculous valuation.
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It takes courage to be an entrepreneur.
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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.
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I could probably say one thing that I'm excited about is I definitely wanna be an entrepreneur and be a humanitarian and that stuff.
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I'm an engineer turned entrepreneur who's passionate about connection.
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If the investors themselves are not sophisticated, if they themselves are not putting a lot of their own money to work, if they themselves don't understand the continuum of capital and how different parts of the capital structures react differently, then they're basically worthless. They're not going to give great advice to these entrepreneurs who then need it. So that is unfortunately the cycle we're in and we have to break the cycle.
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I think going public should not be a goal and the more that we make it a goal, the less it will be a goal. It's kind of like, I have three young children and when I tell them to eat vegetables, the last thing they will ever do is eat vegetables. I think it's just this weird thing where entrepreneurs have a reflexive negative reaction when people are pushing for it. I think you have to view going public for what it is, which is a transitional moment where you can consolidate mindshare and win at an even larger scale.
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Most of America's leading entrepreneurs are bound to the masts of their fortunes. They are allowed to keep their wealth only as long as they invest it in others. In a real sense, they can keep only what they give away. It has been given to others in the form of investments. It is embodied in a vast web of enterprises that retains its worth only through constant work and sacrifice. Capitalism is a system that begins not with taking but with giving to others.
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Being an entrepreneur is not a 9-to-5 job.
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There's no single right place to be an entrepreneur, but certainly there's something about Silicon Valley.
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Never shame to hear what you have nobly done
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In the mid-to-late 1990s, I was an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Kauffman Foundation working with Jana Matthews on 'learning programs for high growth entrepreneurs.'
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I see myself as a classic middle market entrepreneur, and this is the role I fulfil.
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When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?
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First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will.
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The entrepreneurial struggle is the same at basically every stage in the sense that there's maybe slightly less risk but strategic issues are generally always the same. Now there's so much existential risk from another company either being able to compete or to disrupt you in the same way you're disrupting somebody else, an entrepreneur needs a real steady partner who has the ability to start working with them in the Seed or the A and be credible and value-add with strategic advice, and just be backstopped by so much capital that you can do any growth round or even a public round.
