Top 100 Be Entrepreneur Quotes
#1. It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.
Gary Hamel
#2. I take a lean-startup approach: creating agile, interdisciplinary teams that get the minimum viable product to market as soon as possible. It's my job to be entrepreneur-in-residence, an internal change agent.
Todd Park
#3. I could never learn what I'm learning at college. They don't teach it there, because it can't be learned in that way.
Phil Hartman
#4. If you cannot handle the pressure, don't be an entrepreneur. Go get a job!
Donald Trump
#5. I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
Dan Shechtman
#6. Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
Naveen Jain
#7. My job is to be tech entrepreneur-in-residence at the White House.
Todd Park
#8. I want to see a world in which every entrepreneur has access to the resources he or she needs to succeed, and where through the power of supportive communities - that means you and me - every resource can be made available.
Jessica Jackley
#9. Ignorance and arrogance are the artist's and entrepreneur's indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no
idea how difficult her enterprise is going to be and cocky enough to believe she can pull it off anyway.
Steven Pressfield
#10. Being an entrepreneur is really exciting for me. Whether it's creating something or just building a company and giving others the opportunity to build a career, I think it's exciting to be at the helm of these types of activities.
Anousheh Ansari
#11. It's better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a cow.
Stan Shih
#12. Work should be personal. For all of us. Not just for the artist and entrepreneur. Work should have meaning for the accountant, the construction worker, the technologist, the manager and the clerk.
Howard Schultz
#13. Not to let anyone convince you that your dream, your vision to be an entrepreneur is something that you shouldn't do. What often happens is that people who are well meaning, who really care for us are afraid for us and talk us out of it.
Cathy Hughes
#14. Robots are the new middle class. And everyone else will either be an entrepreneur or a temp staffer.
James Altucher
#15. You have got to be willing to be poor as an entrepreneur.
Sean Parker
#16. The only reason you should be an entrepreneur is because that's the only way the idea will come into the world.
Dustin Moskovitz
#17. 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
#19. Even if you're not yet an entrepreneur, you can be entrepreneurial in everything you do. If you view each stop as an opportunity to learn something, there is always something you will take away from that experience.
Tory Burch
#20. 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
#21. Starting a business is risky. Half of all new businesses fail to experience a fifth anniversary. And everyone knows that you could lose all the money you've invested in your new company and then some. Those are the obvious risks of trying to be an entrepreneur.
Scott Shane
#22. If you aren't practicing and playing to be first, then maybe you shouldn't be an entrepreneur.
Robert Kiyosaki
#23. For me, self-esteem-building and confidence-building is the foundation for anything that we do, whether you want to be a writer, a painter, or a entrepreneur.
Hill Harper
#25. Be a smart learner. Learn from your mistakes and adjust your behavior accordingly.
Ehab Atalla
#26. Life is just a set of experiences. As long as there are new experiences for me in a corporate job, I don't think I have to be an entrepreneur.
Sam Yagan
#27. If you go to the workplace thinking that you are a mere employee, you can only be an employee. If you go with an Entrepreneur consciousness, you can definitely become an Entrepreneur
Rajasaraswathii
#28. I enjoy what I do because it keeps evolving - when I was a cook, I wanted to be a chef de partie; when I was a chef de partie, I wanted to be a chef; when I was a chef, I wanted to be a restaurateur, and now I am a chef entrepreneur. I am still fulfilling my dream.
Daniel Boulud
#29. As a kid, I harbored this fantasy of starting a company. I looked at the entrepreneur column in Forbes. I looked at it every month and thought, 'I want to be that guy.'
Jeremy Stoppelman
#30. Just like any business is a living, breathing thing, an entrepreneur has to be able to adapt over time.
Robert Herjavec
#31. Another year older, but am I wiser? Wisdom comes from learning and changing for the better. Sometimes we just go through life living the same day over and over and never gaining true wisdom. Let that never be me.
Richie Norton
#32. If you want to be an entrepreneur, fail as fast as you can. The longer you go without that experience, the more afraid you will be of it, and then you will never do it!
Jeffry A Timmons
#33. If you want to be a real entrepreneur you have to be the cause, you have to be the creator of someone else's new realty. Which eliminates time, space, motion, and friction.
Ashton Kutcher
#34. My father always said working for somebody else never amounted to anything. You have to be an entrepreneur
Wayne Huizenga
#35. An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made.
Daymond John
#36. The most direct path to achievement whether you're an entrepreneur, a company executive, or a pro soccer player is to be a great performer and a great team member. This is also the secret to a meaningful career and self-fulfillment.
Maynard Webb
#38. The very act of becoming an entrepreneur is contrarian to middle class values, study hard, get a good job, be happy with secure income and steady salary.
Rashmi Bansal
#39. The focus of the entrepreneur must always be on exchanging products or services for money, and anything that distracts from that like actually running a business, should be avoided where possible.
John Winterson Richards
#40. Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you're different, you will stand out.
Anita Roddick
#42. You can't study to be an entrepreneur. Sometimes, you just have to jump.
Barbara Corcoran
#43. Be attached to opportunities - money-making ideas - not a particular type of business or industry.
Ehab Atalla
#44. I never knew anything other than wanting to be an entrepreneur. I tried my first business when I was 6 years old, and I started another business when I was 8. I don't think I knew anything besides that.
Daymond John
#45. A successful entrepreneur can't be afraid of failures or setbacks. An initial setback can be a great opportunity to take a new and more promising approach to any problem, to come back stronger than ever.
John Roos
#46. You have to be adroit and also patient to make others agree to your terms.
Mohith Agadi
#47. Don't disregard your so-called "stupid ideas." They may be inspired thoughts and high-potential opportunities. Whatcha gonna do?
Richie Norton
#48. Entrepreneurs: See yourself as victorious- and the best way to be victorious is to be passionate. Find something you love doing!
Donald Trump
#49. My day will come, but until then, I patiently continue moving forward.
-Never allow yourself to become stagnant-
Andrea L'Artiste
#50. The success of the young entrepreneur will be the key to India's transformation in the new millennium.
Dhirubhai Ambani
#51. If you are working with no vision to be own your own boss, you are no different from people who are unemployed
Sunday Adelaja
#52. If Bezos wanted to be a true owner and entrepreneur, with significant equity in his creation and the potential to achieve the same
Anonymous
#53. If anyone tells you that you're too old to be an entrepreneur or that you have the wrong background, don't listen to them. Go with your gut instincts and pursue your passions.
Vivek Wadhwa
#54. To be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running
Richard Branson
#55. An entrepreneur sees things not only for what they are, but also for what they could be.
Idowu Koyenikan
#56. Free basic internet access should be like dialing 911 in the US or 100 in India.
Mark Zuckerberg
#57. When people lose their jobs, they can either get another job or be entrepreneurs. In the music industry, a lot of people have attempted the latter by starting their own labels, but in the age of digital downloads, it's very difficult to succeed.
Judd Apatow
#58. All I want to be is a wandering entrepreneur touching billions of lives. I am going to be the monk who never bought a Ferrari.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#59. Real estate is the best investment on earth, however, when the music stops playing, which happens occasionally, don't be the one left without a chair.
Steven Ivy Attorney Entrepreneur
#60. Good habits and intentional daily effort to turn excuses into solutions will help you become the person and entrepreneur that you want to be.
Farshad Asl
#61. You can never be an entrepreneur if you're afraid to lose money. It's like being a pilot who is afraid of bad weather.
Peter De Savary
#62. For a first-time entrepreneur, there's nothing better than being in Silicon Valley because there is so much going on, and there's such a large number of inventors, that even a B level idea or a C level idea could be nurtured and be given venture capital there.
Jason Calacanis
#63. You may be a redneck if ... you think you are an entrepreneur because of the "Dirt for Sale" sign in the front yard.
Jeff Foxworthy
#64. Money isn't what motivates entrepreneurs; it is acknowledgement-a craving for your ideas to be acknowledged.
Reuben Singh
#65. How could any entrepreneur, confronted by such amazing opportunities to help transform the world and to do so with such extraordinary colleagues, be tempted to lose focus? Especially since the work involves such breadth that the boredom of routine or specialization does not exist.
Bill Drayton
#67. People ask me all the time, 'How can I become a successful entrepreneur?' And I have to be honest: It's one of my least favorite questions, because if you're waiting for someone else's advice to become an entrepreneur, chances are you're not one.
Michael Dell
#68. Never take both hands off the pump. As an entrepreneur, you need to be on constant lookout for opportunity, and that will involve risk. But you minimize those risks by keeping one hand on the pump that is producing for you.
Kenneth E. Behring
#69. 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
#70. 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, and you create a company to solve a real problem. And by real problem, I mean a problem that is going to exist down the line.
Aaron Patzer
#71. I had no plans to be an entrepreneur. I just wanted to be a journalist and write for a magazine. At 15, I just decided to leave school and launch a national student magazine.
Richard Branson
#72. You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck - and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee - or you can go out and become an entrepreneur.
Al Michaels
#73. Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that.
Ludwig Von Mises
#74. Be a learning machine. What made you money last year, won't necessarily make you money this and next year.
Richie Norton
#75. What I'm getting at here is that you can be entrepreneurial without being an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurial people are passionate about what they do, comfortable taking risks, and quick at moving on from failures.
Sophia Amoruso
#76. I choose my life to this free. I choose my life to be this way
Thomas Paine
#77. To be inefficient and effective is better than being efficient and ineffective.
Richie Norton
#78. There are lots of things that I will probably never experience in this life. Military combat. Being dictator of a small central American country. Dunking a basketball. Being a famous rock star. Or walking on Mars. But one thing I have been, and will always be, is an entrepreneur.
Michael Arrington
#79. I wasn't born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.
Robert Kiyosaki
#80. Don't be cocky. Don't be flashy. There's always someone better than you.
Tony Hsieh
#81. The true Entrepreneurship doesn't means to be your own boss, rather it is the thirst to follow your heart and work with the team of visionaries!
Ujjwal Chugh
#82. There's no single right place to be an entrepreneur, but certainly there's something about Silicon Valley.
Peter Thiel
#83. I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last ... Whether it's tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.
Tadashi Yanai
#84. As an entrepreneur, if you're the originator, you need to be faster than ever.
Niklas Zennstrom
#85. Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.
Jeff Bezos
#86. We get to design what we want to see in the world rather than doing what other people think should be done.
Jack Dorsey
#87. The way to be irreplaceable is to become a social innovator. Start projects that motivate you to save the world and simultaneously make you money (and create mindshare) for your company. Social innovation makes magic happen.
Richie Norton
#88. Entrepreneurs need to listen. They don't need to be good listeners (although it can only help) but they need to know when to listen.
Ronnie Apteker
#89. Your job is to commit to the process of becoming an entrepreneur and then to practice what entrepreneurs do so that entrepreneurship can find you when you've practiced enough to be ready.
Michael E. Gerber
#90. An entrepreneur cannot be trained. A man becomes and entrepreneur by seizing an opportunity and filling the gap. No special education is required for such a display of keen judgment, foresight, and energy.
Ludwig Von Mises
#91. You can't be an entrepreneur and work in a public company anymore.
Irving Azoff
#92. Schumpter's daring and dashing entrepreneur is now a legendary figure from the distant past - if not from the mythology of capitalism - or is to be found only in the demimonde of business, founding new ice cream parlors or "deep freeze subscription clubs".
Paul A. Baran
#93. 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
#94. I'm an optimist. You can't be an entrepreneur if you're not essentially an optimist, so I'm an optimist by nature.
John Sculley
#95. I think of myself more as a designer than a serial entrepreneur. As a designer, the easiest way to see that something happens is to start a company and then be the boss, and then people have to do what you say.
Stewart Butterfield
#96. The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.
Reid Hoffman
#97. The skill sets it takes to be a successful entrepreneur, a successful marketer, or a relevant celebrity is a different skill set than you needed ten years ago, even though that was the skill set that mattered for decades.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#98. Jack of all trades or master of one? If you're a master of one, you'll soon be a master of none. Times are a changin. Be a jack of all trades. Or better, master of many!
Richie Norton
#99. I was an investor doing well and decided to be an entrepreneur.
Lynn Jurich
#100. A successful entrepreneur is one who recognizes her blind spots. You may be the world's best engineer, but you probably have never run a 10-person sales force. You may be a brilliant marketer, but how do you structure a cap table?
Jay Samit
