Entrepreneur Quotes
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It is all about finding the entrepreneurs who we believe in. Entrepreneurs who have the wherewithal, the enthusiasm, the passion, the expertise, and the network to take early-stage ideas down the path of success. And it's not always obvious, just because someone has years of experience, or fantastic people in their eco-system, or they have fantastic capital. It is the combination of all of those things, with the right attitude. And for us attitude is crucial.
Amy Nauiokas
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Every entrepreneur doesn't need to be technical - there are plenty of opportunities out there for people who aren't coders.
Andrew Yan
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The payouts for starting a business are just terrible when you account for risk. A tiny minority of entrepreneurs ever get rich. And the majority of entrepreneurs would probably make far more money, and have more stable personal relationships, if they just worked for someone else.
Michael Arrington
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The best Startups don't create noise. They create a gravitational pull.
Wayne Chang
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Start building a network of fellow entrepreneurs that understand your passion and don’t make you feel guilty about always chasing it.
Cameron Herold
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A true measure of an entrepreneur / successful-person is how they deal with adversity.
Noah Kagan
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I think of myself more as a designer than a serial entrepreneur. As a designer, the easiest way to see that something happens is to start a company and then be the boss, and then people have to do what you say.
Stewart Butterfield
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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.
David Bornstein
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The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you'll fail ten times for every success.
Adam Horowitz
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Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical decisions rather than company-building decisions and in my view often reduces the probability of success.
Vinod Khosla
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Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
Norman Cousins
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All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals, they lay down time, energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.
Lois McMaster
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The idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges.
Steve Case
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Show me a person who never made a mistake, and I will show you a person who never did anything.
William Rosenberg
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Just having a great product won't take you anywhere.
Will Poole
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Entrepreneurs need to start building today. The barrier to entry in tech is low, so start designing, start coding it, launch it, build prototypes, build a working version of it. The Internet has amazing powers of distribution. You can test your ideas. You can see if it works, if it doesn't work, whether it's fun, and whether you're sufficiently motivated. People who go into entrepreneurship to get rich aren't going to be happy. It’s the building of things that makes you happy. You have to enjoy the process whether you succeed or fail.
Caterina Fake
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Body piercing and baggy clothes express identity among black youth, and not just beginning with hip-hop culture. Moreover, young black entrepreneurs like Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs and Russell Simmons have made millions from their clothing lines.
Michael Eric Dyson
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I'm just more excited about helping new entrepreneurs create the next Facebook or Google.
Paul Buchheit
