Entrepreneur Quotes
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I see myself as a classic middle market entrepreneur, and this is the role I fulfil.
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There is nothing inherently evil in the process of making money, and the notion is illogical, but that is one of the underlying tenets in our present education system. We are taught from an early age that making money is hard and that those who make lots of money are morally suspect. American culture studies programs at some of the nation’s leading universities have even gone so far as to teach the absurd and illogical notion that the rich became rich because they enjoy privilege earned on the backs of African slaves. Minority millionaires like entrepreneur Herman Cain, Earl Graves, Sr., and Reginald F. Lewis prove the utter nonsense of this notion, yet this is the illogical Progressive philosophy that has permeated our education system.
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What business entrepreneurs are to the economy, social entrepreneurs are to social change. They are the driven, creative individuals who question the status quo, exploit new opportunities, refuse to give up, and remake the world for the better.
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Being an entrepreneur is not a 9-to-5 job.
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You have got to be willing to be poor as an entrepreneur.
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A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
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I'd rather invest in an entrepreneur who has failed before than one who assumes success from day one.
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Never shame to hear what you have nobly done
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Failure is part of discovering the problem you need to be working on. If, as an entrepreneur, you are afraid to fail or to admit the failure of your efforts, then you completely lose any chance at being able to adapt and succeed at finding the problem that needs solving.
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If you look at the ecosystem, entrepreneurs as a class have gotten younger, younger, and younger. They also as a class have become less and less and less experienced. The good part about that is that you're unlocking this ability to start a company to so many more people. That's an amazing positive. The negative is they're coming to that job with dramatically less experience than they've ever had. So there needs to be someone around the table that can then help them.
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Most people ignore opportunities because they see only danger. Entrepreneurs ignore danger because they see only opportunities.
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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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For an entrepreneur, motivation is the core of all things.
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Imagine the world of mobile based on Nokia and Motorola if Apple had not been restarted by a missionary entrepreneur named Steve Jobs who cared more for his vision than being tactical and financial.
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It's good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur.
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Generally speaking, experience counts for something. So you'd expect entrepreneurs who've been through the ups and downs of a tech startup to have an advantage over the newcomers. Or at least have an equal chance at success. But in fact the opposite may be true. A number of venture capitalists I've spoken with have said that too many "old guard" entrepreneurs are not being bold enough in their business decisions, and it's hurting their startups.
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Your biggest challenge as an entrepreneur is not concealing your idea from others or keeping your idea a secret, it is actually convincing people that you're not crazy and that you can pull this off.
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An entrepreneur, whether man or woman, has to be willing to take help, whether financial or technical, to grow his or her business.
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The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you'll fail ten times for every success.
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We need to create an enterprise culture, a society where successful entrepreneurs are respected and admired, not treated with suspicion and disdain. And in which we see less envy of other peoples' achievements and mistrust of commerce, and a greater readiness to get out there and join in the process.
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I don't want to be known as a serial entrepreneur. I like doing one thing at a time and making sure that gets my full attention until it's well established. I enjoy the initial years of a company because they are the most dynamic, and that is when I can give the best of myself.
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Too many start up business fail simply because their owners continue to think and act like employees.
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I'm just more excited about helping new entrepreneurs create the next Facebook or Google.
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More process, less innovation. More operations, less innovation. More management, less innovation. More entrepreneurs, more innovation.
