Entrepreneurship Quotes · Page 17

Being a founder is like being a parent. You always stay involved.

— Bart Decrem

“When it's about your life, it's time to be selfish.”

— Dee Dee Artner

“Universal opinions are often mistaken for universal principles”

— Seth Czerepak

“Lesson learned - in doing business, do not COMPETE but be COMPETITIVE.”

— Diana Valerio

“You don’t need less interests. You need a through-line.”

— RICHIE NORTON

“The harder I worked, the luckier I got Publix Supermarket Founder”

— Anonymous

“Let them ask who you are but do not let others dictate who you should be.”

— Hockson Floin

You need this sort of a tailwind to make a startup successful.

— Sam Altman

I'm good at what I do and still improving as I learn from mentors, founders, partners, friends, family, strangers, my own investors,…

— Chris Sacca

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

— Roy Ash

“Success is an addiction. Once you get into the habit of success, you can’t stop.”

— Ehab Atalla

In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than…

— Hanna Rosin

I've been doing a hybrid of investing and entrepreneurship, which I think initially I wasn't set out to do. But I realized…

— Sean Parker

As an entrepreneur, the pressures of a startup can be enormous, but it's rarely life or death.

— Ryan Holmes

Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.

— Mark Pincus

Founders: there is no shame in failing, take pride in that you have the guts to try something new.

— Kevin Rose

Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not.…

— Ha-Joon Chang

My children have been learning lessons about entrepreneurship since they were in kindergarten, and these lessons are paying off: even though they…

— Naveen Jain

From a personal standpoint, I consider myself much more of an accidental entrepreneur. I was involved in the entrepreneurship club at Harvard,…

— Vivek Ramaswamy

Wireless technology is creating entrepreneurship on a small scale that allows a single woman to set up a business in a small…

— Peggy Johnson

I think the understanding of the role of markets has really helped advance the values of entrepreneurship. Its helped shape public policy…

— Lars Peter Hansen

Let's stop wasting billions of dollars on prisons, which send people home who are too often less capable and more damaged than…

— Van Jones

I'm glad I didn't know how much patience entrepreneurship required. It took some time to turn that into a strength of mine,…

— Reshma Saujani

I recently had the opportunity to participate in 'Inc.''s first-ever 'Hire Power Awards' event in Washington, D.C. The event was a testament…

— Karen Mills

A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur asked me a question sometime ago, he said, 'When is the last time you saw…

— Ted Cruz

“I never built that contingency plan. Through the seemingly impossible Loudcloud series C and IPO processes, I learned one important lesson: Startup…

— Ben Horowitz

“«Gavin did not enjoy his hard work. The optimistic startup guys sending in these crazy proposals were guys who enjoyed their work.…

— Bruce Sterling

I used to be opposed to the idea of social entrepreneurship. I said, you know, let business be business, and philanthropy be…

— George Soros

There can be no solution to the challenge of climate change that is not global. But if we can come together in…

— Ban Ki-moon

That first company I started made a lot of money for the venture capitalists - nearly $30 million - but next to…

— Michael Arrington

I think what people love about the Steve Jobs story is not just the track record at Apple, but that comeback story,…

— Steve Case

You simply can't be tentative in a startup. You have to go for it at every chance you get. And if the…

— Fred Wilson

Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.

— Ursula Burns

One startup I dream of funding is the one that kills the record companies.

— Paul Graham

Don't take forever to make a decision, but don't make it too fast.

— Micah Baldwin

It takes years and years, usually a decade, to create a great startup.

— Sam Altman

“Dominate in your domain; You can do it.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

In a startup, absolutely nothing happens unless you make it happen.

— Marc Andreessen

Failure is not about insecurity. It's about lack of execution.

— Jeffrey Gitomer

So always keep momentum, it's this prime directive for managing a startup.

— Sam Altman