Top 100 Entrepreneurs Quotes

#1. The world's most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder.

Ben Parr

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#2. Entrepreneurs often underestimate costs and overestimate rewards. But the fact that they estimate & still take action sets them apart from peers.

Ryan Lilly

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#3. Savvy entrepreneurs adopting an abundance mindset realize there's enough business to go around. The next time you're networking, consider approaching someone you think is a competitor. Explore the possibilities of referring business to them.

Lisa A. Mininni

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#4. Many people look at successful entrepreneurs and think it's easy to get where they are at, but it really isn't. Many entrepreneurs work 16-18 hour days and thus have been able to achieve their high levels of success.

Jeet Banerjee

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#5. The world, in terms of choices available to educated, ambitious workers and entrepreneurs, is way bigger than just the United States, Japan and Europe.

Paul Singer

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#6. In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yossi Vardi

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#7. Big businesses can help by engaging aspiring entrepreneurs and promoting initiatives which support small businesses from within.

Tory Burch

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#8. Entrepreneurs, because they need money, they are willing to share their crystal ball with someone like me. That's the best thing ever.

Ron Conway

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#9. Failure is not a pre-requisite for success. Already successful entrepreneurs are far more likely to succeed again than who failed

Jason Fried

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#10. Not many venture firms have people whose job is to read academic research - on startups, ventures, and entrepreneurs - and gather knowledge from that.

Bill Maris

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#11. Entrepreneurs with disabilities are overwhelmingly successful.

David Brenner

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#12. Remember: if the most unique ideas were obvious to everyone, there wouldn't be entrepreneurs. The one thing that every entrepreneurial journey has in common is that there are many, many steps on the road to success.

Tory Burch

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#13. Since there are a wide range of entrepreneurs fundraising at any given time, I looked at each opportunity as it has arisen and on its own merits. Then I've sat down with my financial advisers, we've looked at the numbers and gone for the businesses I believe have real potential.

Andy Murray

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#14. 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

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#15. All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA, and creation is the essence of entrepreneurship.

Reid Hoffman

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#16. One of the great things about young entrepreneurs is that they don't know that something can't be done. So they try something that's so audacious and usually end up pulling it off.

Fred Wilson

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#17. 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

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#18. What you have as a result of past policies is that German entrepreneurs go outside of Germany for many of their activities. They are investing abroad instead of at home because there isn't the openness, fluidity and opportunity they find outside their borders.

Milton Friedman

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#19. One of the rookie mistakes first-time entrepreneurs often make is to be too guarded about their idea - in fact, many will actually spend their first $25,000 on patent lawyers without ever fully vetting their product.

Scott Weiss

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#20. Government aid impedes success and creates dependence, while entrepreneurs create success and independence.

Cal Thomas

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#21. Our tax policies, the tax relief and reform we passed in 2003 and 2005, helped get government out of the way of America's entrepreneurs, and our unemployment rate is now lower than it was in the 1970s, the 1980s, and the 1990s.

Marsha Blackburn

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#22. 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

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#23. Great entrepreneurs are never out of the game for long. They slip many times, but they don't fall.

Ryan Holiday

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#24. What separates sports from entrepreneurism, however, is that in business we constantly have to overcome undefined and unpredictable challenges. Athletes train for specific events and conditions, whereas entrepreneurs generally have little idea what they will encounter along the way.

Naveen Jain

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#25. The best entrepreneurs never confuse motion with results.

Martin Zwilling

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#26. One of biggest lies in politics is the lie that Republicans are the party of big business. Big business does great with big government. Big business is very happy to climb in bed with big government. Republicans are and should be the party of small business and of entrepreneurs.

Ted Cruz

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#27. Entrepreneurs believe that profit is what matters most in a new enterprise. But profit is secondary. Cash flow matters most.

Peter Drucker

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#28. But many of these Silicon Valley entrepreneurs hard at work creating our technological future pay precious little attention to the public policy, legal, ethical, and security risks that their creations pose to the rest of society.

Marc Goodman

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#29. Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.

Daniel Kahneman

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#30. The Startup Act should give all Americans, not just immigrants, a better shot at being tomorrow's engineers and entrepreneurs. And that opportunity could begin at a young age with education in computer programming.

Marvin Ammori

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#31. All the players looked absurdly inept, as though they were expressly drafted to be humiliated, entrepreneurs in the industry of losing.

Aleksandar Hemon

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#32. My advice to fledgling entrepreneurs is always the same: build a company that you plan to be with for the next 10 years - that is the best way to increase your chances of success.

Vivek Wadhwa

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#33. 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

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#34. I can make it very clear: I get paid if we make good investments. And if we don't, I don't get paid. I have no incentive to sell our companies to Google; the entrepreneurs get to decide that. We are minority shareholders.

Bill Maris

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#35. The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.

Edward Abbey

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#36. Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

Robert Kiyosaki

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#37. He was depicted as a symbol of America's young entrepreneurs.

Govind

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#38. People are trainable. They can be trained to be either employees or entrepreneurs.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

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#39. One of the things that I've always loved to do is brainstorm ideas with friends and get together and talk about what they're building ... Essentially, my day-to-day is just going around and meeting entrepreneurs and talking to them about what they plan on launching.

Kevin Rose

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#40. I was among one of the first entrepreneurs to start building their own private enterprise when Perestroika began in Russia and the state initiated its first market-oriented reforms.

Yelena Baturina

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#41. Entrepreneurs make fast decisions and move forward knowing that at best 70% of their decisions are going to be right. They move the ball forward every day. They are quick to spot their mistakes and correct.

Mark Suster

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#42. As entrepreneurs, we must continue to ask ourselves 'What's next?' It takes humility to realize that we don't know everything, not to rest on our laurels and know that we must keep learning and observing.

Cher Wang

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#43. I grew up believing that one person could make a difference. In Indiana, you saw that with basketball. The small town could beat the big town, like in the movie 'Hoosiers.' That is one of the things that attracts me to entrepreneurs.

Mary Meeker

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#44. In a time where everyone is searching for success, it's easy for other so called entrepreneurs to live off them because they haven't learned patience when it comes to money.

James Jean-Pierre

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#45. The payouts for starting a business are just terrible when you account for risk. A tiny minority of entrepreneurs ever get rich. And the majority of entrepreneurs would probably make far more money, and have more stable personal relationships, if they just worked for someone else.

Michael Arrington

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#46. It's almost a cliche that great Silicon Valley entrepreneurs don't go sit on a beach when they make a lot of money; they get back to work building another company or at least investing in other people's companies.

Sarah Lacy

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#47. A founder's perspective is unique.

Entrepreneurs are builders, and the lens through which I view Starbucks and the marketplace is somewhat different from what it would be if I were a professionally schooled manager.

Howard Schultz

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#48. The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.

Ludwig Von Mises

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#49. I think in general, people who aren't themselves entrepreneurs are often more risk averse. And I think you see this dynamic a lot with entrepreneurial people who lead a company, which is that they hire people who complement them.

Leila Janah

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#50. When President Obama speaks about raising taxes on the rich, he speaks about high-income employees and small business owners, not entrepreneurs who build big businesses.

Robert Kiyosaki

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#51. Transformation of any kind always exacts a holy tussle. The newborn butterfly struggles to open its wings so it can conjure up the strength to fly. So, too, with artists, inventors, mystics, and entrepreneurs.

Tama J. Kieves

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#52. Entrepreneurs can't forecast accurately, because they are trying something fundamentally new. So they will often be laughably behind plan - and on the brink of success.

Eric Ries

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#53. Image perception makes a big difference. That's one of the things I tell entrepreneurs today. Fine, focus on products, focus on customers and all that good stuff - that's necessary. But the image that you project is also key. Don't forget that.

Robert Jordan

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#54. While good business ideas are plentiful, many entrepreneurs struggle to understand payroll taxes, health care and other thorny issues ... In other words, they don't have the financial literacy to scale their businesses and attract investors.

Daymond John

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#55. For Entrepreneurs, weekend neither starts nor ends.

Mohith Agadi

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#56. Entrepreneurs make profits by serving the needy. Politicians make profits by creating the needy.

Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

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#57. I think people are hungry for new ideas and leadership in the world of poverty alleviation. Most development programs are started and led by people with Ph.Ds in economics or policy. Samasource is part of a cadre of younger organizations headed by entrepreneurs from non-traditional backgrounds.

Leila Janah

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#58. In all the talk in the Principles (as opposed to the formal analysis) it is not the saving of rentiers but the energy of entrepreneurs which governs accumulation.

Joan Robinson

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#59. There is a group of entrepreneurs pushing the envelope, government officials that are making significant changes despite the odds, and visionary writers, academics, and colleagues whose work confirms, amplifies, and stretches my own thinking.

Robin Chase

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#60. Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow ...

Ludwig Von Mises

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#61. Successful entrepreneurs don't wait for the perfect moment - they create it

Richard Branson

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#62. Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world.

Gavin Newsom

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#63. I want to preserve the free and open Internet - the experience that most users and entrepreneurs have come to expect and enjoy today and that has unleashed impressive innovation, job creation, and investment.

Julius Genachowski

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#64. My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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#65. We have this powerful lever at Google Ventures, which is to invest $200 million a year. This is a huge lever. It's not all going into one place; it's going into lots of start ups and founders and entrepreneurs, all of which are levers to try and change the world in one way or another.

Bill Maris

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#66. It is important for young entrepreneurs to be adequately self-aware to know what they do not know.

Mark Zuckerberg

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#67. I'm not a communist - I believe in the free market and that entrepreneurs should be allowed to take risks because it creates wealth and jobs, but I draw the line at people risking other people's money. That's deplorable.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

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#68. The one thing all entrepreneurs have in common is that they started. The one thing everyone else has in common is that they haven't.

Ryan Lilly

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#69. Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory.

Felix Dennis

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#70. The reason there are more employees than entrepreneurs is simply because our schools train young people to become employees.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

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#71. Every day, entrepreneurs act on their assumptions. Should you?

Lisa A. Mininni

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#72. I like to get attention for the things I think are important. And I think it is important that entrepreneurs - especially young ones - not be abused.

Jason Calacanis

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#73. What companies and entrepreneurs sometimes forget is that the purpose of innovation is not simply to make new, improved products and services; it is to make things that are meaningful to the people who use them.

Bernadette Jiwa

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#74. Entrepreneurs are never satisfied. They want to do things better. They strive for perfection and use all the ingenuity to their command to achieve it.

J. Willard Marriott

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#75. We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion.

Manmohan Singh

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#76. Entrepreneurs cannot be happy people until they have seen their visions become the new reality across all of society.

Bill Drayton

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#77. In times of recession there are massive opportunities and fortunes to be made, so for new up and coming entrepreneurs, this is the time to go and start a business.

Richard Branson

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#78. Whatever the reasons, would-be entrepreneurs should be forewarned. Going into business for yourself isn't just risky because your business might fail. It's risky because you might have a harder time getting a job in the future, even if you succeed with your company.

Scott Shane

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#79. I believe that entrepreneurs play an unmatched role and the accelerating pace of innovation is transforming the face of global challenges. You must think about the solution differently when you're trying to impact 1 billion people rather than affecting 1 million people.

Naveen Jain

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#80. We started Ashoka here in India with a simple idea: that you needed social entrepreneurs to deal with problems that don't fit the business paradigm.

Bill Drayton

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#81. Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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#82. For entrepreneurs, finished is an F-word.

Anonymous

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#83. The best way we can encourage people to create companies that create jobs is to celebrate the diverse entrepreneurial stories and the variety of drivers that led these entrepreneurs to sticking their necks out.

Chip Conley

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#84. I like the strategy of finding great entrepreneurs early, giving them some money, helping them a little - perhaps not as much as we would a regular core investment.

Dan Levitan

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#85. Good entrepreneurs are community builders, actively involved with their communities and dedicated to the community's well being. If you're dedicated to your community, it will be dedicated to you.

Robert Kiyosaki

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#86. We understand that you have to create an environment where that those men and women who are entrepreneurs can risk their capital and have an opportunity to get a return on their investment. That's how jobs are created. And that's what Americans are looking for, is that type of vision.

Rick Perry

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#87. Taking money from job creating entrepreneurs and giving it to ever-failing government programs has to be the ultimate in economic illiteracy.

James Cook

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#88. Even as entrepreneurs, we rely on people to get things done. We may have the original idea, but moving it forward can involve hundreds of people. Every person becomes integral to the overall success.

Donald J. Trump

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#89. Well you'd see a very dramatic change in the perspective of small businesses, entrepreneurs, middle-size businesses, and perhaps even some large multinationals. They'd say, you know what, America looks like a good place to invest again, a good place to take risk, a good place to hire again.

Mitt Romney

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#90. I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.

Lisa Gansky

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#91. As entrepreneurs, we must constantly dream and have the conviction and obsession to transform our dreams into reality - to create a future that never existed before.

Clara Shih

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#92. My ambition with connectivity is not to fly balloons in the national airspace of other countries, but my dream is to be able to enable the local entrepreneurs to have low-cost connectivity solutions.

Satya Nadella

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#93. All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.

Muhammad Yunus

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#94. All human beings are entrepreneurs.

Reid Hoffman

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#95. Entrepreneurs must be practical experts. They needn't set out to be subject matter experts in what they do; they must set out to solve a problem or pursue some cause or purpose greater than themselves.

Simon Sinek

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#96. The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.

Bill Drayton

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#97. Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of labor and let them determine what the entrepreneurs should produce.

Ludwig Von Mises

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#98. 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

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#99. Any outcome, any deal that doesn't preserve the freedom and openness of the internet for consumers and entrepreneurs will be unacceptable.

Julius Genachowski

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#100. great entrepreneurs fail and fail again, but never give up, and always learn.

Richard Gerver

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