Quotes about entrepreneurship

Ideas are easy Saying it is easy Doing it is difficult.

You don’t get what you wish for you get what you work for.

A goal is not just an object on a pitch it is also a milestone on your journey of excellence.

You’re not born with confidence it is a skill to learn.

Anyone can be a businessman never give up.

Create your own fears choose to fear living an average life.

Know your margins then focus on growing the business.

People don't buy what you do they buy why you do it. And what you do simply proves what you believe

Successful entrepreneurs don’t have better ideas instead they have better mindsets for taking action. Action is what sets apart an aspiring entrepreneur from others.

90% of Startups fail. Come in to be the 90% until we shift to rest 10%. )

Entrepreneurship does not build character it reveals character.

The moment you think you know something inside out, is the moment you stop listening. That's when you go backwards faster than you progressed

Entrepreneurs persevere until it pays off. One good day can make up for an entire month, and one good month can make up for an entire year. Don't give up. The isn't over 'till it's over!

I would have been trying to pitch a concept about my community to someone that most likely was not a part of that community.

You just can’t take for granted just how absolutely predatory the technology space is.

One of the things I’ve learned about vision is people will grab it mentally or, have a crab mentality.

Your comfort zone is not that comfortable.

Entrepreneur, if your distinction isn't angering the mediocre, it's actually mediocre.

Entrepreneur, make today count but don't let the day count you.

Entrepreneur, if you're going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind”.

Entrepreneur, don't just read history, write it so people can see the future in the present.

Entrepreneur, either your brand is distinct or your brand is distant.

Your distinction shouldn't be measured by your duration but rather, your donation.

Entrepreneur, make today count and but don't let the day count you.

Yes, content is king but excellence is his queen. ~ Onyi Anyado.

You have to grab the goal, visualise your vision, excel in excellence and then become distinct in distinction.

The call of distinction cannot be heard by the average, neither can the vision of distinction be seen by the eyes of the mediocre.

Do you know invisible determination and effort will always accomplish visible distinction and excellence?

As soon as he said it was okay to do engineering, that really freed me up. My psychological block was really that I didn't want to start a company. Because I was just afraid. In business and politics, I wasn't going to be a real strong participant. I wasn't going to tell other people how to do things. I wasn't going to run things ever in my life. I was a non-political person and I was a very non-forceful person. It dated back to a lot of things that happened during the Vietnam War. But I just co

Entrepreneurs see the "no diving" sign and back-up to get a running start.

You have to make your own chances.

A 2006 Harvard University study shows that entrepreneurs who have failed in their previous enterprise have an almost one-in-five chance of success in their next start-up

Sometimes in life, it has to be enough to be proud of yourself, even if no one else notices.

The one thing all entrepreneurs have in common is that they started. The one thing everyone else has in common is that they haven’t.

To be successful you must recognise your weaknesses and employ people with complementary skills.

Why wouldn't you want to buy something that made you money?

People say i need a Doctor!I say i am a Doctor!!

The key to finding financial freedom is to unlock your entrepreneurial intelligence, work your network and lead the time.

If you make the opportunity. you'll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.

There's no such thing as a superhero, but together we can world in a new direction.

Entrepreneurship, with the right mindset, can help anyone reach his goals in life.

Gen Y's work best in groups, collaboratively, transparently, interactively and entrepreneurially - and have already created positive change in many local communities and around the world.

Ahbonbon’s mission to help people be successful in both business and personal life by focusing on entrepreneurship, healthy living, and food guides.

...a long-term reputation is only at risk when companies engage in vocal launch activities such as PR and building hype. When a product fails to live up to those pronouncements, real long-term damage can happen to a corporate brand. But startups have the advantage of being obscure, having a pathetically small number of customers and not having much exposure. Rather than lamenting them, use these advantages to experiment under the radar and then do a public marketing launch once the product has p

Most rich people have a gangster in their ancestry somewhere.

Screw it. Let's do it.

The purpose of diversification is so that when one investment goes down or is not doing well, you are insulated from the result because of the others you have in place. In a job or career, most of us are trying to specialize so much so that we've ended up with all of our eggs in the same basket. That's not managing risk at all. That's putting yourself at risk." - Chris Lutz

Think about this for a second. Why is it that we would not invest even a single dollar without diversifying it and managing risk, but do exactly the opposite, putting all of our eggs in one basket, with our regular income in our careers?" - Chris Lutz, Modular Career Design

What drove me? I think most creative people want to express appreciation for being able to take advantage of the work that’s been done by others before us. I didn’t invent the language or mathematics I use. I make little of my own food, none of my own clothes. Everything I do depends on other members of our species and the shoulders that we stand on. And a lot of us want to contribute something back to our species and to add something to the flow. It’s about trying to express something in the on

Successful entrepreneurship begins and ends with customer wants and needs, not what you want and need.

Successful companies are started, and made successful, by at least two, and usually more, soulmates.

Each year about 600,000 start-ups are launched. Less than 0.5 percent attract VC. Of Inc. magazine's annual list of the 500 fastest growing companies in the United States assessed over a decade (1997–2007), less than 20 percent of companies were venture backed” -“62.4 percent of VC investments were completely lost while 3.1 percent of the investments accounted for 53 percent of the profits for roughly 600 investments

If your position or job is on the liability side of the balance sheet, you can be looked at as a risk rather than an asset to your employer. Another reason to be an entrepreneur." - Chris Lutz, Modular Career Design

An entrepreneurial economy is what made America great. People didn’t come to settle the country several hundred years ago for all the good paying jobs. There weren’t any. There was nothing but natural resources and opportunities." - Chris Lutz, Modular Career Design

Any feeling of security is only in your head. Anything could happen at any time. As long as you are strictly someone’s employee at one company, you’re a liability on the balance sheet. I say that as a business owner. We cannot trust any government to provide us with what we need, nor is that its responsibility. We cannot trust most employers either. Insulate yourself with multiple incomes either from different companies or by working for yourself in addition to one main source of income. Diversi

If you want to make money at some point, remember this, because this is one of the reasons startups win. Big companies want to decrease the standard deviation of design outcomes because they want to avoid disasters. But when you damp oscillations, you lose the high points as well as the low. This is not a problem for big companies, because they don't win by making great products. Big companies win by sucking less than other big companies.”-“The place to fight design wars is in new markets, where

A good portfolio manager knows which companies to keep and which ones to let go. Many a GP has struggled with portfolio companies that cannot meet their value-creation milestones, or raise additional follow-on rounds of capital, or generate target returns in a time span of, say, five to seven years. The faster you recognize those losses, the better it is.”-“As David Cowan says, “Just focus on your top five—the rest is distraction.” The harder part of the investor's discipline is to know when to

Passion is the most expensive currency in the world! Start convincing others to get richer. A passionate team can achieve anything. other currencies come later.

Amidst all the hype and hoopla around this business, I wanted to emphasize the challenge—it is seductive but the failure rate is very high. And those who fail have no good place to go.

Business is a game like baseball or golf or anything else. I enjoy being a student of the game, and reading, and learning, and going to conferences, whether it’s building custom homes or selling or servicing medical equipment. A good entrepreneur can be a good entrepreneur in any industry because if you’re a good student of the game, the rules and the lessons are very much the same. And that’s the fun part about it.

The wisest course of action is to take your best shot with a prototype, immediately get it to market, and iterate quickly. If you wait for ideal circumstances in which you have all the information you need (which is impossible), the market will pass you by.

I personally feel that I could not go out and plant the million trees, but I could go out and tell people to tell 10 people each, ‘Okay, all of us are going to go out and plant 10 trees,’ and you, eventually, plant a million trees.

Doing, not learning to do, is the essence of entrepreneurship.

You have to change your environment to serve your purpose.

To crush fear doesn't mean you eliminate it; crushing fear means you literally crush it down into smaller, more manageable parts and tackle one piece at a time.

It all starts with a tiny, stupid idea, then one thing leads to another, and suddenly, you find something amazing: yourself.

And it is change that always provides the opportunity for the new and different. Systematic innovation therefore consists in the purposeful and organized search for changes, and in the systematic analysis of the opportunities such changes might offer for economic or social innovation.

Try it out yourself. Test your idea with an experimental project. See what works and what doesn't. Then move forward or move on.

Stupid is the New Smart.

A complaint is a unique opportunity to strengthen the relationship with the client.

Always be conscious of the fact that someone somewhere is learning a new lesson watching you live your life

Creativity will only cease when people stop thinking

Don't wait. Start stuff.

Attention deficit is no longer the supposed domain of Generation Y’s who were brought up on a diet of social media and new technology. A recent study revealed 65 percent of 55-64 year olds surf, text and watch television simultaneously.

Creative thinking poses a dynamic asset to every human

In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge for the modern entrepreneur is to take that path.

My major goal in business was to learn. I had legislated in my mind for failure the worse possible scenario was I would learn a lot regardless of the outcome. This goal was the foundation for success of the business. Peldi, Balsamiq

Willingness to learn is important, willingness to act on what you learn is critical.

The challenge for the entrepreneur is to find your passion and make fear history.

Sometimes you live life, and sometimes life happens to you. But you always get to choose what you do about it.” Devon Brooks

Life's too short to build something nobody wants.

When positioning a brand, aggressively avoid becoming a "me too" by assertively being a "who else?

Without growth, organizations struggle to add talented people. Without talented people, organizations struggle to grow.

My heart is set on my dreams, I persevere and I make a difference

Our thoughts and our mind-sets greatly affect our perception of what life is really about

when you conspire with your inspirations, you have a lead to success

I am not the best because I said it, I am the best because I live it

A time comes in the life of a man when all you do is reflect on retrospective actions and desire better outcomes in the future

To broaden your thinking, you have to expand the scope of your mind and imagination

If Entrepreneurship was easy, the term would have been easier to pronounce too!

Remember, the most common thing about common sense is how uncommon it is.

Any entrepreneur with the title 'CEO' on his biz card has got a hell of a lot to learn yet.

This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship - the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

A company should limit its growth based on its ability to attract enough of the right people.

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Entrepreneurship rests on a theory of economy and society. The theory sees change as normal and indeed as healthy. And it sees the major task in society - and especially in the economy - as doing something different rather than doing better what is already being done. That is basically what Say, two hundred years ago, meant when he coined the term entrepreneur. It was intended as a manifesto and as a declaration of dissent: the entrepreneur upsets and disorganizes. As Joseph Schumpeter formulate

Many people have serious academic degrees but cannot find a job, and sadly their degrees are so limited that they cannot even think about how to create a job for themselves.

I think a great entrepreneur is learning every day. An entrepreneur is somebody that doesn’t take no for an answer — they’re going to figure something out. They also take responsibility. They don’t blame anybody else. And they’re dreamers in one sense but they’re also realistic and they take affordable steps when they can.

The companies that refused to make hard choices, or refused to admit that anything much was happening, fared badly. If they survive, it is only because their respective governments will not let them go under.