Entrepreneur famous quotes
05-15-2025
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Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.
-- Aaron Levie -
Solve a real problem. You don't start a company because you want to be an entrepreneur or the fame and glory that comes along with it. You become an entrepreneur to solve a real problem.
-- Aaron Patzer -
If you want to understand entrepreneurs, you have to study the psychology of the juvenile delinquent. They don't have the same anxiety triggers that we have.
-- Abraham Zaleznik -
I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.
-- Adam Braun -
The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you'll fail ten times for every success.
-- Adam Horowitz -
Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.
-- Adam Osborne -
Working together is a way of knowing each other better.
-- Additi Gupta -
All that you need to become an entrepreneur and change the world is a working brain - and pretty much nothing else.
-- Adora Svitak -
If you pursued something that you felt strongly about, then I call that success.
-- Adora Svitak -
One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an ***** to be a successful business person.
-- Alan Cooper -
Every venture capitalist says at some point, 'I wish I could run this company myself' -- to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor.
-- Alan Patricof -
Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors.
-- Alan Sugar -
An entrepreneur is not what you call yourself, it's what someone calls you in recognition of what you've achieved. I call Richard Branson an entrepreneur. Rupert Murdoch called me one. Anybody who stands up and says: 'I'm an entrepreneur' needs shooting. You'll drive people crazy.
-- Alan Sugar -
In America, everybody thinks they're an entrepreneur. That's the problem. It's not a title that anybody should call oneself.
-- Alan Sugar -
As an entrepreneur, you have to be OK with failure. If you're not failing, you're likely not pushing yourself hard enough.
-- Alexa Von Tobel -
We can, after all, learn much from lessons we did not sign up for.
-- Alexander Jablokov -
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.
-- Alexander Lebed -
Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.
-- Alexis Ohanian -
Don't kill the competition. Competition is healthy for businesses. It keeps you the entrepreneur on your toes.
-- Aliko Dangote -
I would say to young entrepreneurs and budding philanthropists - are you giving to feel good or do good?
-- Andrew Forrest -
I never thought of myself as an entrepreneur before I started this. I just like to build things.
-- Andrew Mason -
We entrepreneurs are loners, vagabonds, troublemakers. Success is simply a matter of finding and surrounding ourselves with those open-minded and clever souls who can take our insanity and put it to good use.
-- Anita Roddick -
Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out.
-- Anita Roddick -
Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.
-- Anita Roddick -
I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.
-- Anne Lamott -
Becoming an entrepreneur was the furthest thing from my mind. I actually had an identity crisis when I realized I had become one.
-- Anne Taintor -
In terms of formal education, I may somewhat lacking. I never finished school. I am a self-taught entrepreneur, that's the best kind there is, trust me
-- Aravind Adiga -
We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.
-- Arthur C. Brooks -
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 -
Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
-- Arthur Rimbaud -
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
Social entrepreneurs don’t want to help. They want to change the world
-- Ashoka -
An entrepreneur is someone that steals office supplies from home and brings them to work.
-- Auren Hoffman -
Design your life to minimize reliance on willpower.
-- B. J. Fogg -
I intend to protect a free and open internet, extend its reach to every classroom, and every community, and help folks build the fastest networks, so that the next generation of digital innovators and entrepreneurs have the platform to keep reshaping our world.
-- Barack Obama -
I hate entrepreneurs with beautiful business plans.
-- Barbara Corcoran -
In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
-- Barbara Corcoran -
You can't study to be an entrepreneur. Sometimes, you just have to jump.
-- Barbara Corcoran -
I don't invest anymore in entrepreneurs who don't have charisma.
-- Barbara Corcoran -
I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.
-- Barbara Corcoran -
What does it mean to grow rich? Is it to have red-blooded adventures and to make a ‘fortune,’ which is what brought the whalers and other entrepreneurs north? Or is it, rather, to have a good family life and to be imbued with a far-reaching and intimate knowledge of one’s homeland, which is what the Tununirmiut told the whalers at Pond’s Bay wealth was? Is it to retain a capacity for awe and astonishment in our lives, to continue to hunger after what is genuine and worthy? Is it to live at moral peace with the universe?
-- Barry Lopez -
The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have great universities. We have entrepreneurs.
-- Ben Bernanke -
I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.
-- Ben Casnocha -
In Silicon Valley, when you're a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
-- Ben Horowitz -
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
-- Ben Horowitz -
The world's most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder.
-- Ben Parr -
If Google teaches you anything, it's that small ideas can be big.
-- Ben Silbermann -
There's a lot of pressure to look like the last company that was successful.
-- Ben Silbermann -
The companies that I really admire the most are the ones that have a deep visceral understanding of why people use their service, and they figure out ways of making money that are completely consistent with how people are feeling and what they are doing at the time.
-- Ben Silbermann -
Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur.
-- Bernard Arnault -
The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.
-- Bill Drayton -
What does an entrepreneur do? The first thing is they've given themselves permission to see a problem. Most people don't want to see problems ... Once you see a problem and you keep looking at it you'll find an answer.
-- Bill Drayton -
What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
-- Bill Drayton -
The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.
-- Bill Drayton -
Good entrepreneurs can manage, but no one but an entrepreneur can entrepreneur, let alone help build and lead the world's community of leading social entrepreneurs and their top business entrepreneur allies.
-- Bill Drayton -
We started Ashoka here in India with a simple idea: that you needed social entrepreneurs to deal with problems that don't fit the business paradigm.
-- Bill Drayton -
Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.
-- Bill Drayton -
An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
-- Bill Drayton -
The first - the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur - is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
-- Bill Drayton -
I was into real estate. I was always an entrepreneur.
-- Bill Rancic -
Sellout... I'm not crazy about the word. We're all entrepreneurs. To me, I don't care if you own a furniture store or whatever - the best sign you can put up is SOLD OUT.
-- Bill Withers -
I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.
-- Biz Stone -
We believe Skype in the Classroom will be a milestone in inspiring the next generation of social entrepreneurs and we can't wait to connect students with TOMS partners.
-- Blake Mycoskie -
The next big thing is the one that makes the last big thing usable.
-- Blake Ross -
First of all, a man, whether seeking achievement on the athletic field or in business, must want to win. He must feel that the thing he is doing is worthwhile; so worthwhile that he is willing to pay the price of success to attain distinction.
-- Branch Rickey -
Designers + artists see potential in things where others do not. I think artists in many ways are the original entrepreneurs.
-- Brian Chesky -
A company's culture is the foundation for future innovation. An entrepreneurs job is to build the foundation
-- Brian Chesky -
Innovation: Imagine the future and fill in the gaps.
-- Brian Halligan -
Just because you are the loudest, doesn't make you right.
-- Brian Halligan -
Real entrepreneurs do what they say they're going to do, wannabes ask about it and have tons and tons of coffee meetings.
-- Brian Wong -
Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.
-- Bruce Mau -
If your aspirations are not greater than your resources, you’re not an entrepreneur.
-- C. K. Prahalad -
The market is sovereign and in the magic economy of the small entrepreneur there is no authoritarian center... in the political sphere... the equilibrium of powers prevails, and hence there is no chance of despotism.
-- C. Wright Mills -
Start building a network of fellow entrepreneurs that understand your passion and don’t make you feel guilty about always chasing it.
-- Cameron Herold -
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
-- Carl Sandburg -
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.
-- Caterina Fake -
To some extent, being an entrepreneur is a lonely journey.
-- Chad Hurley -
But it [crony capitalism] erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who provide what consumers want.
-- Charles Koch -
Life without risks is not worth living.
-- Charles Lindbergh -
As entrepreneurs, we must continue to ask ourselves 'What's next?' It takes humility to realize that we don't know everything, not to rest on our laurels and know that we must keep learning and observing.
-- Cher Wang -
As an entrepreneur at heart, I am excited to see so many new opportunities, and I am honoured to accept this opportunity to help shape the next stage of HTC's development,
-- Cher Wang -
Conventional wisdom suggests the primary motivator for entrepreneurs is money or wealth creation and, in fact, much of the political debate tends to center around what kind of tax or regulatory policy changes will turn corporate suits into small business adventurers overnight.
-- Chip Conley -
Walt Disney believed in himself instead of worrying what others were saying.
-- Chris Brogan -
Surrounded yourself with brilliant people. You can't HELP but grow when that happens.
-- Chris Brogan -
A key part of helping startups is providing them with a G/SCORE that measures a company on the path to sustainability. We score companies from around the world and use Knoodle so they can easily sync video and presentations together for a more effective pitch. We send these pitches to judges all around the world and it's critical that we have a flexible tool that is easy to create, easy to deliver, and effective at letting audiences understand the entrepreneur and their innovation.
-- Chris Shipley -
As entrepreneurs, we must constantly dream and have the conviction and obsession to transform our dreams into reality - to create a future that never existed before.
-- Clara Shih -
I don't have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses.
-- Curt Schilling -
Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.
-- Dale Carnegie -
Life is about perspective and I have a different perspective from most. I am not trying to be in Hip Hop at 43 and looking like an old man. I always enjoyed business and my independence. I am an Entrepreneur.
-- Damon Dash -
I started, me by myself, found a great co-founder, got up to 95 people, and then it ended with me by myself again.
-- Dan Stuart -
The path to the mountain ahead of you? is not the path you took to the mountain you stand on.
-- Dave McClure -
I figured maybe I had some talent as an investor… since it seemed like I was only a half-assed entrepreneur.
-- Dave McClure -
Frankly, I'm more of a researcher, teacher,motivat or, and coach than I am an entrepreneur.
-- David Allen -
There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.
-- David Allen
