Entrepreneur Quotes · Page 45

Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term.

— Reed Hastings

I always had this desire to be an entrepreneur, except I felt I didn't really know what I was doing.

— Ruzwana Bashir

Any outcome, any deal that doesn't preserve the freedom and openness of the internet for consumers and entrepreneurs will be unacceptable.

— Julius Genachowski

I did what I think a lot of entrepreneurs do. I started putting up a lot of ads on Craigslist for interns.

— Blake Mycoskie

I've been an entrepreneur all my life, and my recent focus is on finding entrepreneurial solutions to address global challenges in healthcare…

— Naveen Jain

“Your lack of confidence is the number one reason why you’re not experiencing success.”

— Ehab Atalla

Give me an entrepreneur with a lot of courage, gusto and who iterates rapidly, and I will back that person day in…

— Douglas Leone

Is it Practice Makes Perfect or Perfect Practice makes Perfect? ~ Big Al Connolly

— Big Al Connolly

I will work day and night to avoid failure, but if I can't, I'll pick myself up the next day. The most…

— Richard Branson

I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time…

— Barbara Corcoran

I think that if there's some innovative entrepreneurs out there who can help teach people how they can cost-effectively help themselves and…

— Ricky Schroder

Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur. Doing things differently and solving problems with new,…

— Richard Branson

“Anyone with a great product to sell should never criticize competing products. Your product should sell on its own merit. Consumers want…

— Zack W. Van

We demonstrated what you could do when a band of entrepreneurs settles an empty country with vast resources. The Chinese have a…

— Charles R. Morris

A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it…

— Steven Pressfield

If you are an entrepreneur planning to start your own company, I can't think of a better place to begin than by…

— Mary Kay Ash

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.

— Reid Hoffman

“Everyone has an idea. But it’s really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you work on the idea.”

— Jack Dorsey

A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can't.

— Jack Ma

You may be a redneck if . . . you think you are an entrepreneur because of the "Dirt for Sale" sign…

— Jeff Foxworthy

We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across.

— Anita Roddick

Entrepreneurs start businesses because ... they have no choice. Passion and energy drive them on good days and sustain them on bad days

— Barry Moltz

Robots are the new middle class. And everyone else will either be an entrepreneur or a temp staffer.

— James Altucher

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their…

— Paul Ryan

“You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box.”

— Ryan Lilly

The only thing any entrepreneur, salesperson or anyone in any position can control is their effort.

— Mark Cuban

“For an entrepreneur: wealth invites fame. For a celebrity: fame invites wealth.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We must learn to apply all that we know so that we can attract all that we want.

— Jim Rohn

Downsizing trends and the changing global market require people to reinvent themselves and think like entrepreneurs.

— Les Brown

Too many start up business fail simply because their owners continue to think and act like employees.

— Michael LeBoeuf

I see myself as a classic middle market entrepreneur, and this is the role I fulfil.

— Niki Lauda

Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected…

— Felix Dennis

If you pursued something that you felt strongly about, then I call that success.

— Adora Svitak

Life is a unique combination of "want to" and "how to" and we need to give equal attention to both.

— Jim Rohn

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

— Mark Zuckerberg

What is an entrepreneur? Someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.

— Reid Hoffman

There are two ways to face the future. One way is with apprehension; the other is with anticipation

— Jim Rohn

I never said I enjoy anything about using the Internet. I enjoy helping the entrepreneurs who are building this thing that I…

— Ron Conway

God will take care of what you go through. You take care of how you go through it.

— Zig Ziglar

“If you allow yourself to be bogged down and lose your enthusiasm, you are dead in the water. But if you remain…

— Cathy Huges