Top 100 Entrepreneur Quotes
#1. An entrepreneur starts at square one and is not afraid to take chances to get to square one hundred and one
Laura Berg
#2. Lat at nigh have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were mean to be? Are you a writer who doesn't write, a painter who doesn't pain, an entrepreneur who never starts a venture? Then you know what Resistance is.
Steven Pressfield
#3. A true measure of an entrepreneur / successful-person is how they deal with adversity.
Noah Kagan
#4. The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody's poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur's efforts.
Ludwig Von Mises
#5. As an entrepreneur and mother, I support the need to put women at the center, recognizing their crucial impact on social development and their important role of balancing family and professional responsibilities.
Yelena Baturina
#6. Thinking big is only one part of being a successful entrepreneur.
Kathryn Minshew
#7. An entrepreneur is someone that steals office supplies from home and brings them to work.
Auren Hoffman
#8. Nothing turns off an investor more than when an entrepreneur comes in with a ridiculous valuation.
Kevin Harrington
#9. Different parts of the world have different attitudes to failure. Arguably, it may take more courage to be an entrepreneur in Sydney, or Paris, or London, or Japan, or Singapore ... but an entrepreneur sees the world for what it could be, not what it is.
Guy Kawasaki
#10. He doesn't look like a gangster, but then he's not the office worker type, either ... some kind of entrepreneur maybe, or, - wait, I've got it! He looks like he writes manga! Either that or a chiropractor, I guess.
Banana Yoshimoto
#11. What does it take to be a successful entrepreneur? It takes willingness to learn, to be able to focus, to absorb information, and to always realize that business is a 24/7 job where someone is always out there to kick your ass.
Mark Cuban
#12. Being an entrepreneur simply means being someone who wants to make a difference to other people's lives.
Richard Branson
#13. A little bit of good can turn into a whole lot of good when fueled by the commitment of a social entrepreneur.
Jeffrey Skoll
#14. I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.
Ben Casnocha
#15. In this sense socialism means the abolition of private enterprise, of private ownership of the means of production, and the creation of a system of "planned economy" in which the entrepreneur working for profit is replaced by a central planning body.
Friedrich Hayek
#16. I love the incredible variety of demands directing makes on you, from the entrepreneur to the hustler to the deal-maker to the writer; to directing actors and the camera and working with music, sound, marketing and promotion. It uses so many sides of your brain.
Tom Hooper
#17. As an entrepreneur, one cannot just work and not say anything.
Wang Shi
#18. Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.
Aaron Levie
#19. That's a tough question; I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job.
Will Estes
#20. Entrepreneur, you're either raising the bar of excellence or your exhaling at the bar which is expensive.
Onyi Anyado
#21. To be an entrepreneur, it just takes a lot of persistence, dedication, and drive. No matter what happens, you have to be wiling to get back up and try again.
Jeet Banerjee
#22. An entrepreneur is like a musician creating a new song.
Ehab Atalla
#23. Becoming an entrepreneur is like walking through flames. You either ignore it, deal with it or be engulfed by it. You must realize when you make it, the burns will heal and you'll become a better person because of it.
James Jean-Pierre
#24. To be a real entrepreneur you always have to be looking forward. The moment you rest on your laurels is the moment your competition overtakes you.
Richard Branson
#25. Despite Marc Andreessen's and Peter Thiel's belief that the outsize gains of tech billionaires are the result of a genius entrepreneur culture, inequality at this scale is a choice - the result of the laws and taxes that we as a society choose to establish.
Jonathan Taplin
#26. It takes a special kind of stubbornness to succeed as an entrepreneur
Sophia Amoruso
#27. I want to be happy. I realized that being happy isn't necessarily about getting there, it's how you get there. It almost sounds like a cliche, but every entrepreneur I've talked to - every good entrepreneur - really enjoys the 'how you get here.'
Ben Huh
#28. The market is sovereign and in the magic economy of the small entrepreneur there is no authoritarian center ... in the political sphere ... the equilibrium of powers prevails, and hence there is no chance of despotism.
C. Wright Mills
#29. Somebody once said, educate a woman and you will educate a family. I am saying, empower a woman to become an entrepreneur, and you will create an entire family of entrepreneurs. Woman entrepreneurship is the need of the nation right now. It's the surest and quickest way to make India a superpower.
Vishwas Mudagal
#30. People are recognizing that I am an entrepreneur and do more than be on a reality TV show.
Kim Kardashian
#31. Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process.
Tom Peters
#32. As an entrepreneur in India put it: 'Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.
Thomas Sowell
#33. No first-time entrepreneur has the business network of contacts needed to succeed. An incubator should be well integrated into the local business community and have a steady source of contacts and introductions.
Jay Samit
#34. Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.
Robert Kiyosaki
#35. As an entrepreneur, I knew that if my company failed, I could always try again. So I often felt that the only real risk of true financial ruin came from the possibility of a serious illness that either exceeded my insurance plans lifetime limits, or was not covered due to rescission.
Eric Ries
#36. An entrepreneur is someone who can make enough money to pay for their mistakes.
Jayson Gaignard
#37. I said that if I were an industrialist or entrepreneur, I would invest in agriculture-based enterprises, for there is so much that can be done in manufacturing, in food preservation.
F. Sionil Jose
#38. Keep going, no matter what."
--Reginald F. Lewis: Lawyer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, Chairman, CEO ---
Reginald F. Lewis
#39. Every venture capitalist says at some point, 'I wish I could run this company myself' - to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor.
Alan Patricof
#40. The typical entrepreneur is no longer the bold and tireless man of Marshall, or the sly and rapacious Moneybags of Marx, but a mass of inert shareholders, indistinguishable from rentiers, who employ salaried managers to run their concerns.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
#41. If you're an entrepreneur, and you have a choice to go to a place where there are 250 VC firms or somewhere else where there might be one or two, you're gonna go where all the money is.
Josh Kopelman
#42. Most entrepreneurial types are free-wheelers who like to do a variety of things and do not enjoy routine tasks. But a smart entrepreneur will eventually learn that while ideas start businesses, organization makes them successful.
Larry Burkett
#43. In America, everybody thinks they're an entrepreneur. That's the problem. It's not a title that anybody should call oneself.
Alan Sugar
#44. Entrepreneurship isn't for everyone, and not everyone is going to be an entrepreneur, but women who turn to business, turn to economics, because there are people depending on them, I think that their creativity, their resilience, their spirit, embody what's best about entrepreneurship.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#45. As an entrepreneur building a multimillion-dollar business, your failures are going to be your greatest assets, provided you have a philosophy that addresses mistakes, strives to understand them, learns the key elements in them, and turns them into successes.
Ryan Blair
#46. About 10 million people start a business each year, and about one out of two will make it. The average entrepreneur is often on his or her third startup.
Brad D. Smith
#47. I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist, but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning. I always imagined cartooning would be how I got my seed capital. I always thought my other businesses would be the less dominant part of my life.
Scott Adams
#48. It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful.
Bill Drayton
#49. If you want swashbuckling action in your life, become an entrepreneur and give it a go.
Richard Branson
#50. I think the most important trait for an entrepreneur is persistence. When you try to do something new and difficult, you are more likely to fail than to succeed.
Trip Adler
#51. As an entrepreneur you have responsibilities in trying to operate well in what you have to do. There is a positive effect if you end up doing that. That's where I try to spend most of my efforts.
John Elkann
#52. You can't be an absentee entrepreneur and expect the team to stay motivated.
Martin Zwilling
#53. Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.
Anita Roddick
#54. I guess to be an entrepreneur you have to have a large ego, enormous pride and an ability to inspire others to follow your lead,
Ray Kroc
#55. Once you meet an entrepreneur like Jack Ma, you just want to make sure you bet on him. It's not a hard decision.
Jerry Yang
#57. A legislative entrepreneur ... doesn't just believe the right things. He's out there trying to make a good idea legislatively viable.
Matt Kibbe
#58. Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur: an ability to fail, an ability to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on those ideas, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.
James Altucher
#59. Being an entrepreneur is like being a pirate. Go for the booty and discover new, uncharted lands
Jeffrey Fry
#60. I think that initial independence is very important; that's what being an entrepreneur is all about.
Jon Oringer
#61. Becoming an entrepreneur was the furthest thing from my mind. I actually had an identity crisis when I realized I had become one.
Anne Taintor
#63. As counterintuitive as it sounds, 'speed to fail' should be every entrepreneur's motto. Success isn't born wholly-formed like Venus from a clamshell; it's developed through relentless trial and error.
Jay Samit
#64. No one is as smart as all of us. -Seth Godin, author/entrepreneur
Jason Fried
#65. Being an entrepreneur isn't really about starting a business. It's a way of looking at the world: seeing opportunity where others see obstacles, taking risks when others take refuge.
Michael Bloomberg
#66. Since I was born and raised in Brazil, the steps to becoming an entrepreneur in the United States have not always been easy.
Mike Krieger
#67. I think when I was on the corporate ladder, it was very difficult to maintain the hours. It's a little easier when you have you're an entrepreneur.
Tory Burch
#68. The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
Ludwig Von Mises
#69. The successful entrepreneur's unique ability to turn trying times into triumphs.
Donald J. Trump
#70. What I've learned in my career is that it takes the same amount of effort to build a $10bn company as it does a $1bn company; you as the entrepreneur are going to put your entire life, your entire effort into it.
Jason Calacanis
#71. An entrepreneur is born with the mentality to take risks, though there are several important characteristics: courage, faith in yourself, and above all, even when you fail, to learn from failure and get up and try again.
Sheldon Adelson
#72. Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past.
Peter Drucker
#73. Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it opens before hitting the ground.
Robert Kiyosaki
#74. When you are an entrepreneur, you have founded your own firm, it is so easy to find that you exist - you are the main shareholder of your company; it is very easy to look at the stock market position of your company to know how rich you are.
Thomas Piketty
#75. Hanging out in coffee shops and talking about one day being a writer or an activist or an entrepreneur is just about the worst thing you can do.
Jeff Goins
#76. Investing in a startup does not make you an entrepreneur any more than buying a grand piano makes you a concert pianist.
Jeffrey Fry
#77. It's good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur.
Matt Mullenweg
#78. A business owner is the boss, but it's a job, a place that is stable and profitable. An entrepreneur is an artist of sorts, throwing his/herself into impossible situations and seeking out problems that require heart and guts to solve. Both are fine, but choose.
Seth Godin
#79. Anyone who is employable would go get a job. They wouldn't be an entrepreneur.
Corey Breier
#80. I was the kind of entrepreneur that never really felt I made it. When Mike Olefield's "Tubular Bells" [Virgin Records' first release] sold 8 or 10 million copies, I suppose, at age 19, I could've possibly retired on the money. Instead, I immediately pushed the boat and took that risk again.
Richard Branson
#81. Niklas Zennstroem has a thorough background as a successful entrepreneur with extensive expertise in areas such as IT and online.
Stefan Persson
#82. The problem you ultimately want to have, as an entrepreneur, is deciding who to help, not deciding who can help you.
Gene Simmons
#83. Every entrepreneur talks about the passion you have for your work, and I think that's what's missing with a lot of women in business.
Martha Stewart
#84. I think Coran Capshaw is such a brilliant entrepreneur and he always thinks about new stuff; the biggest stuff you can imagine. I know he's working on a lot of things for me at the moment, and I think it will definitely help my career to go to the next level.
Tiesto
#85. If you choose to become a smoker, you are an idiot, and you may lack the discipline and intelligence to be a successful entrepreneur.
Gene Simmons
#86. People always ask is it hard being an entrepreneur and a mum, and the answer is 'yes.'
Natalie Massenet
#87. Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business.
Peter Diamandis
#88. Frankly, I'm more of a researcher, teacher,motivat or, and coach than I am an entrepreneur.
David Allen
#89. Wantrepreneur: "I'll do it later."
Entrepreneur: Today IS later.
Richie Norton
#90. Being an entrepreneur is tough. Really, really tough.
David S. Rose
#91. Superior quality is a prerequisite to entering the game. By definition, an entrepreneur is undercapitalized relative to the status quo. Therefore, if you enter a product that is either at parity with the leaders, or not as good, you won't even get to the starting line.
Gary Hirshberg
#92. Obviously, many people may remember me as the first winner of 'The Apprentice,' but prior to that, I was an entrepreneur. I started my first business when I was in college, and then getting my lucky break was when Donald Trump hired me on.
Bill Rancic
#93. If given a choice between investing in someone who has read REWORK or has an MBA, I'm investing in REWORK every time. A must read for every entrepreneur.
Mark Cuban
#94. Nothing ever works out when you are at the whims of others. It doesn't matter if you are an entrepreneur or an employee. Once someone is bribing you to do something (a salary is a form of bribery if you are only doing the work for the money and not for the meaning) then you become a prisoner.
James Altucher
#95. I couldn't care less who is mad at me as long as the entrepreneur comes out ahead.
Ron Conway
#96. I think that my original drive as an entrepreneur was precisely that desire to get away from the image of the shipping magnate's son.
Stelios Haji-Ioannou
#97. You can't be an entrepreneur for other people. You can't start a company for other people. You have to love it more than you ever thought of loving something that wasn't a human being. The demands will kick you down and rob your life - but yet, it is so rewarding.
Blake Lively
#99. Try to be an influencer rather just being an Entrepreneur.
Ujjwal Chugh
#100. In fact, I've come to think of making stone soup as the only way an entrepreneur can succeed.
Peter H. Diamandis
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