Entrepreneurship Quotes · Page 34

“Even as an entrepreneur, you need to see yourself as an employee of your business.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

I really enjoy working with companies and founders and incubating with companies... It's like being on a team in a different way.

— Jozy Altidore

Like having a child, running a startup is the sort of experience that's hard to imagine unless you've done it yourself.

— Paul Graham

... for the top twenty most valuable YC companies, all of them have at least two founders.

— Sam Altman

What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.

— Peter Drucker

A founder can carry an institution only so far, and then others have to step in, even the alumni. That's how an…

— Shiv Nadar

“Branding is fascinating. Creating a brand that is authentic and timeless is what entrepreneurs dream of. Dare to be different, dare to…

— Independent Zen

The intellectual and social climate needed to allow entrepreneurship to thrive will not exist in advanced capitalism.

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

Startups alternate between nostalgia for the garage and millennial longing for a lucrative exit. But what I always keep in mind is…

— Glenn Kelman

In entrepreneurship, you decide to give up your day job at the point where either (A) the hobby/new business is at least…

— Daymond John

I was first published as a paranormal author back in the early 1990s. I was one of the founders of that original…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea…

— Anthony Mackie

In my view, product/market fit is the most important thing to get right as a startup entrepreneur. There's a variety of ways…

— Scott Cook

If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail. Once you get beyond startup, if you have managers…

— Mark Cuban

Because startups often accidentally build something nobody wants, it doesn’t matter much if they do it on time and on budget. The…

— Eric Ries

You need to put the fear of risk aside. Startups need leaders who are willing to persevere through the hard times. Failure…

— Ben Huh

Everybody should do at least one startup sometime in life. It's such an amazing ride.

— Oren Etzioni

With tech startups, it's all loose-goosie. You raise money as you go, often from friends, family and investors.

— Naval Ravikant

[Entrepreneurship] is by no means hunch or gamble. But it also is not precisely science. Rather, it is judgment.

— Peter Drucker

“The idea of finding value in what people are willing to pay to get rid of it one of the fundamental backbones…

— Tom Szaky

Entrepreneurship is having an idea to do something great and not entirely have a plan on how to do it but the…

— Michael Bloomberg

“Don't let negative energy pull you down and don't let negative people to stop you or your dreams”

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

Long term thinking is so rare anywhere, but especially in startups. This is a huge advantage if you do it.

— Sam Altman

Social entrepreneurship is like a butterfly, sucking honey from a flower, but the flower won't die. They're helping the flower to make…

— Arunachalam Muruganantham

“Arise my friend, Awake my friend and work for humanity, not to make it sophisticated, but to make it peaceful first.”

— Abhijit Naskar

For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big…

— Hamdi Ulukaya

To have people from every continent who are working on philanthropy, on social entrepreneurship, gives me a unique opportunity to engage.

— Darren Walker

“Cosgn co-signs your startup journey, empowering you to grow and pay it forward.”

— Marion Bekoe

...after a certain point, material objects have a tendency to crowd out the emotional needs they are meant to support.

— Graham Hill

“With success comes the never-ending task of blocking or weeding out fake friends.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Failure is a key part of entrepreneurship, but, as with many things in life, attitude impacts outcome”

— Brad Feld

“We will never have enough time to do everything, but we will always have enough time to do the most important thing.”

— Wilbert Wynnberg

The good news about entrepreneurship is that your fate is in your hands. The bad news is that your fate is in…

— Guy Kawasaki

“If self-employment is the opposite of employed-by-other, than a job is outsourcing your freedom (time and talent) to a boss.”

— Richie Norton

The Lord's timing is always perfect. Make sure you're prepared when he throws opportunity your way.

— Tsepiso Makhubedu

“Starting and profitably running a business is not just some achievement, it is heroism.”

— Amit Kalantri

In the early stage of a startup, hiring senior people is usually a mistake. You just want people that get stuff done.

— Sam Altman

The two big startup killers are when there's just no market for what you are doing, and team problems.

— David Cohen

Microloans enable the poor to lift themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship.

— Pierre Omidyar

“Money is a tool, not an outcome. It brings experience, stability, and specific lifestyles. But when you use it toward your suck,…

— Nate Green