Top 100 Entrepreneur Who Quotes
#1. Every time you use a coffeemaker for your morning cappuccino, you are benefiting from the fragility of the coffeemaking entrepreneur who failed. He failed in order to help put the superior merchandise on your kitchen counter.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#2. Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who's forging a bullet with your company's name on it. You've got one option now - to shoot first. You've got to out innovate the innovators.
Gary Hamel
#3. The Westway, the old strip club on Clarkson Street, is still there, but today it's owned by a hipster restaurant entrepreneur who caters to the ironic cultural lifestylers, more fashion world than art, people who are "cool" because they live in New York.
Kim Gordon
#4. You have to live in Silicon Valley and hear the horror stories. You go and hang out at the cafes, and you meet entrepreneur after entrepreneur who's struggling, basically - who's had a visa problem who wants to start a company, but they can't start companies.
Vivek Wadhwa
#5. I'd rather invest in an entrepreneur who has failed before than one who assumes success from day one.
Kevin O'Leary
#6. The pillow entrepreneur, who knew the true nature of the distributor, thought that it might take longer than that.
Jonas Jonasson
#7. I'm an engineer turned entrepreneur who's passionate about connection.
Leah Busque
#8. This is the reason why there are currently about 6,000 startups in Israel. And the nature of the Israeli entrepreneur - who is not afraid and is resourceful, motivated and fast moving - all give us an advantage.
Yossi Vardi
#9. I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.
Adam Braun
#10. Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past.
Peter Drucker
#11. 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
#12. Management and entrepreneurship are only two different dimensions of the same task. An entrepreneur who does not learn how to manage will not last long. A management that does not learn to innovate will not last long.
Peter Drucker
#13. My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.
Rachel Zoe
#14. I don't like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created something to make a good living.
Francois Hollande
#15. It is impossible that the intention of the entrepreneur who has borrowed in order to increase investment can become effective (except in substitution for investment by other entrepreneurs which would have occurred otherwise) at a faster rate than the public decide to increase their savings
John Maynard Keynes
#16. Some entrepreneurs talk of a high burn rate, high advertising rate, and so on, with no outcome, so it doesn't impress me. But an entrepreneur who has that kind of a feeling of responsibility towards his investors is somebody who will have all my support.
Ratan Tata
#17. You want to hire # entrepreneurs , people who are natural problem solvers
the ones who see opportunity when most see impossibility.
Gurbaksh Chahal
#18. Entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.
David Karp
#19. The stereotypical successful entrepreneur is Mark Zuckerberg - the young college dropout who dreamed up a crazy idea while in his dorm room.
Vivek Wadhwa
#20. We look for the scrappy entrepreneur: the kind of person who will get things done without looking to spend money right away.
Jon Oringer
#21. 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
#22. A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.
Henry Kravis
#23. I am proud to offer my endorsement of Donald J. Trump for President of the United States. He is a successful executive and entrepreneur, a wonderful father, and a man who I believe can lead our country to greatness again.
Jerry Falwell Jr.
#24. Imagine the world of mobile based on Nokia and Motorola if Apple had not been restarted by a missionary entrepreneur named Steve Jobs who cared more for his vision than being tactical and financial.
Vinod Khosla
#25. I believe that listening is one of the most important skills for any teacher, parent, leader, entrepreneur or, well, just about anyone who has a pulse.
Richard Branson
#26. People do not mind people who try things and fail. If you're a good entrepreneur, you're not going to succeed in every single thing you try. You've got to try to succeed at more things than fail.
Richard Branson
#27. You need money to make money is nonsense! Entrepreneur people who started with nothing but an idea.
Timi Nadela
#28. To the furniture worker's child in North Carolina who wants to become a doctor or a scientist, an engineer or an entrepreneur, a diplomat or even a president
that's the future we hope for. That's the vision we share. That's where we need to go
forward
Barack Obama
#29. I've never really thought of myself as an entrepreneur. I think of an entrepreneur as someone who wants to make a lot of money. That has never been at the top of my list.
James Goodnight
#31. Society can't wait. It's sad there are so many entrepreneurs, business successes and venture capitalists who give no thought to society.
Les Wexner
#32. Entrepreneur is not a job title. It is a state of mind of people who want to alter the future.
Guy Kawasaki
#33. You have to love what you do. Without passion, great success is hard to come by. An entrepreneur will have tough times if he or she isn't passionate about what they're doing. People who love what they're doing don't give up. It's never even a consideration. It's a pretty simple formula.
Donald Trump
#34. If you are working with no vision to be own your own boss, you are no different from people who are unemployed
Sunday Adelaja
#35. Better to teach a man to fish who already loves to fish.
Richie Norton
#36. 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
#37. There are those dreamers who make excuses for why they aren't passionate about or creating anything to match their desires and then there's those dreamers who stay up late just to finish a goal that will get them up the next set of stairs. We all have dreams but not everyone makes it a reality.
Nikki Rowe
#38. A real entrepreneurs who do not need protection nets underneath
Henry Kravis
#39. Google the phrase "the most hated man in America." And this guy is one of the first people to pop up. Martin Shkreli, aka Pharma Bro, a 32-year-old drug company entrepreneur and former hedge fund manager who has a lot of money and loves to talk about how he spends it.
Joy-Ann Reid
#40. 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
#41. A person who doesn't have a structured way of writing their goals will experience disorder, even in the comfort zone.
Onyi Anyado
#42. An entrepreneur isn't someone who owns a business, it's someone who makes things happen.
Tim Ferriss
#43. A social entrepreneur is somebody who knows how to make an idea reality.
Eboo Patel
#44. 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
#45. Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.
Jay Samit
#46. The new is threatening to those who have mastered the old.
Simon Sinek
#47. Give me an entrepreneur with a lot of courage, gusto and who iterates rapidly, and I will back that person day in and day out.
Douglas Leone
#48. An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
Bill Drayton
#49. The definition of an entrepreneur is someone who takes risks to earn a profit. I would take that a step further to say that an entrepreneur takes risks to realize a dream.
Shahara Wright
#50. An entrepreneur is not what you call yourself, it's what someone calls you in recognition of what you've achieved. I call Richard Branson an entrepreneur. Rupert Murdoch called me one. Anybody who stands up and says: 'I'm an entrepreneur' needs shooting. You'll drive people crazy.
Alan Sugar
#51. An entrepreneur needs to know what they need, period. Then they need to find an investor who can build off whatever their weaknesses are - whether that's through money, strategic partnerships or knowledge.
Daymond John
#52. I'm not an entrepreneur. I'm not a CEO. I'm a nerdy computer programmer who likes to have opinions on Twitter.
Markus Persson
#53. People who say "it's just business" are lying. It's a deceptive and manipulative tactic used by weak minds. Anyone who has ever run or been in business knows that a business will fail if the relationships are not healthy. Business is the business of relationships. That is all.
Richie Norton
#54. The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.
Reid Hoffman
#55. Today, as an independent, an entrepreneur, and a former mayor, I believe we need a president who is a problem solver, not a bomb thrower. Someone who can bring members of Congress together to get things done. And I know Hillary Clinton can do that because I saw it firsthand.
Michael Bloomberg
#56. 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
#57. I think I'm very much an entrepreneur, but I know I have the ability to start a company in a lot of ways than other people who are more qualified because I have this existing brand as an actress.
Blake Lively
#58. We entrepreneurs are loners, vagabonds, troublemakers. Success is simply a matter of finding and surrounding ourselves with those open-minded and clever souls who can take our insanity and put it to good use.
Anita Roddick
#59. As every entrepreneur and investor sifts through year-end data to predict the next trend or opportunity for financial success, there is a much easier way to accurately predict the future: hang out with those who are creating it.
Jay Samit
#60. That's how we're going to stay innovative. We're going to continue to attract entrepreneurs who say, 'I found an idea, and I can go to Google and have a demo in a month and be launched in six.'
Marissa Mayer
#61. The entrepreneurs who succeed usually want to make a difference to people's lives, not just their own bank balances.
Richard Branson
#62. Don't go on tours with people who have never been there.
Clay Clark
#64. Entrepreneurs are all unique. One way to build a business and turn it into a brand is to know who you are.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#65. I couldn't care less who is mad at me as long as the entrepreneur comes out ahead.
Ron Conway
#66. 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
#67. I don't invest anymore in entrepreneurs who don't have charisma.
Barbara Corcoran
#68. An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true.
Vinod Khosla
#69. Money is always eager and ready to work for anyone who is ready to employ it.
Idowu Koyenikan
#70. Yet for every American who actually starts a business, there are likely millions more who begin each year saying "OK, this is the year I am going to start a business," and then don't.
Entrepreneur Press
#71. The problem you ultimately want to have, as an entrepreneur, is deciding who to help, not deciding who can help you.
Gene Simmons
#73. You can disagree with an idea without attacking the person who shared it.
Richie Norton
#74. Anyone who is employable would go get a job. They wouldn't be an entrepreneur.
Corey Breier
#75. Peter Drucker quotes a definition of an entrepreneur as someone who moves resources from areas of lower productivity and yield to areas of higher productivity and yield.
Andrew S. Grove
#76. For honest insight into who you are, don't ask yourself what your priorities are for next week. Ask what your priorities were last week.
Robert Reed
#77. Most entrepreneurs are not doing it for financial motives in the first place. They're just people who love creating.
Richard Branson
#78. Any man who's not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#79. An entrepreneur is a leader of excellence, trailblazer and pioneer who constantly brings change to their generation.
Onyi Anyado
#80. AT&T invented the cellular telephone, but saw no future in it. It takes entrepreneurs, who are angels of destruction, to take advantage of things which the inventor cannot or does not see.
Lester Thurow
#81. People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs.
Peter Drucker
#82. Opportunities are everywhere. The question is who is going to take advantage of them.
Ehab Atalla
#83. I only back people with track record who can execute ruthlessly and flawlessly ... Real killers ... no matter the industry or company geography
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#84. We can tell that a good name is better than riches by those who prefer the riches.
Kin Hubbard
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. An entrepreneur is someone who can make enough money to pay for their mistakes.
Jayson Gaignard
#89. 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
#90. Being an entrepreneur simply means being someone who wants to make a difference to other people's lives.
Richard Branson
#91. Everyone loves a flawed hero. I don't want perfect people. I want people who have a story, have been through some shit, dance to their own beat and still make i work, not the fake-arsed posh fuck-wits who look down on us slightly geeky weird-but-cool entrepreneurs.
Dan Meredith
#92. Don't ever let anyone tell you that something is too competitive. Once you subtract the people who don't work very hard, or the people who aren't as good as you, your competition shrinks dramatically.
Maggie Mason
#93. An entrepreneur is someone who, almost artistically, designs a living entity which embodies the values, beliefs, and ambitions of the creator
Jake Lodwick
#94. That's why people who seek out group flow often join startups or work for themselves. Serial entrepreneurs keep starting new business as much for the flow experience, as for the additional success.
Steven Kotler
#95. You can take the smartest kid at Wharton, the one who gets straight A's and has a 170 IQ, and if he doesn't have the instincts, he'll never be a successful entrepreneur.
Donald Trump
#96. Motivated teams are the key to success at every startup, yet I still know entrepreneurs who gave an inspirational speech to kick off the quarter but haven't been heard from since, or don't realize that their actions are often more demotivating than inspirational.
Martin Zwilling
#97. When I talk to entrepreneurs today, I feel like the grandfather who was in the Civil War.
Marc Andreessen
#98. Entrepreneurs constantly confuse what they do with who they are.
Howard A. Tullman
#99. Do more and understand that all wealth came from poor people either as the entrepreneurs or the consumers who buy the product that keeps the entrepreneurs in business.
John Hope Bryant
#100. If you're going to be a successful entrepreneur, you're going to have to be somebody who can tolerate a high rate of change, you have to be willing to put a lot more hours into it, you have to tolerate the fact that you're going to make more mistakes and have a culture that responds to that.
Trip Hawkins
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