Good Entrepreneur Quotes

#1. The key to being a good manager or a good entrepreneur is to pick the right people. Pick the right people, and they'll make you look good.

Joe Gibbs

#2. What an entrepreneur does is to build for the long run. If the market is great, you get all of the resources you can. You build to it. But a good entrepreneur is always prepared to throttle back, put on the brakes, and if the world changes, adapt to the world.

Vinod Khosla

#3. A good entrepreneur is a good teacher.

Edward D. Hess

#4. It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful.

Bill Drayton

#5. 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

#6. I think a good entrepreneur has a very clear grasp of what the goal is, an unwavering sense of the goal, an utterly agile approach of getting there.

John Katzman

#7. 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

#8. A little bit of good can turn into a whole lot of good when fueled by the commitment of a social entrepreneur.

Jeffrey Skoll

#9. Experience taught me to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper.

Donald Trump

#10. A legislative entrepreneur ... doesn't just believe the right things. He's out there trying to make a good idea legislatively viable.

Matt Kibbe

#11. We can tell that a good name is better than riches by those who prefer the riches.

Kin Hubbard

#12. People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs.

Peter Drucker

#13. There are many wrong reasons to want to be an entrepreneur. I think there's only one good reason: to change the world.

Phil Libin

#14. I think the word 'social entrepreneur' is a really good description of what I am. What that means me to is that you have the entrepreneurial gift and spirit to create something out of nothing.

Blake Mycoskie

#15. It's good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur.

Matt Mullenweg

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. Whatever you may have heard, self-publishing is not a short cut to anything. Except maybe insanity. Self-publishing, like every other kind of publishing, is hard work. You don't wake up one morning good at it. You have to work for that.

Zoe Winters

#19. We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.

Bill Gates

#20. As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.

Natalie Massenet

#21. 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

#22. You have to have a ton of passion for what you're doing because being an entrepreneur is probably twice as hard as you think it's going to be. The good news is that it's probably twice as much fun when it's going well.

Keith Belling

#23. Just about every error has a technical and psychological component: get good at discovering those connections

Joshua Waitzkin

#24. It seems to me to be important to distinguish a good idea from poor implementations of it

Ron Jeffries

#25. Business skills, when well applied, can do more than just make money. They can potentially make money and do some real good, which is immensely satisfying. To do that, it's important to think outside the box, take risks, and be an entrepreneur.

Jeffrey Skoll

#26. I don't consider myself a social entrepreneur, but I'm thrilled to be doing good, if that's what I'm doing.

Perry Chen

#27. Any business owner or entrepreneur knows that there is no luck or good fortune about keeping a company up and running. It's nothing but hard work, consistency, determination, courage, staying focused, accepting failure, making changes, and simply keeping on with the grind.

Enaka Yembe

#28. 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

#29. When someone says you can't do something because of XYZ, is that true? Or are they playing with your life with their good intentions to keep you safe?

Richie Norton

#30. Any entrepreneur worth their salt knows that their brand is worthless if it doesn't somehow contribute to society or the overall good of the planet.

Lynda Resnick

#31. Good entrepreneurs can manage, but no one but an entrepreneur can entrepreneur, let alone help build and lead the world's community of leading social entrepreneurs and their top business entrepreneur allies.

Bill Drayton

#32. I learned I'm not a good executive, I'm an entrepreneur and I'm creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do.

Jerry Weintraub

#33. I discovered early in my career as an entrepreneur that I'm not good at many things, and I said 'I need help.'

Alain Bouchard

#34. One skill of a great entrepreneur is to get a whole complicated discussion and then say, 'We're going to do this one and we're only going to do this one'. Managers are good at prioritizing. Entrepreneurs know what is the one thing.

Bing Gordon

#35. The thing I preach constantly is do your research; build your knowledge base. Don't just go into business on a whim or a prayer - and don't think 'I'm an entrepreneur so I have to take risks'. Entrepreneurs don't take risks. They take calculated risks; only the good ones.

Theo Paphitis

#36. If you're in business, all the content in the world will do you no good unless it leads to a sale.

Richie Norton

#37. Good entrepreneurs have a chip on their shoulders. They are out to prove something.

Mark Suster

#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. As all entrepreneurs will say, "surround yourself with good people". That is the hardest thing : finding good people.

Ronnie Apteker

#40. 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

#41. Any time we would talk to another VC, our investors would talk him out of it: 'This is not a good company' ... So we were really stuck with our existing investors for the next round.

Sabeer Bhatia

#42. Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That's the classic great entrepreneur.

Mohnish Pabrai

#43. 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

#44. Happiness being surrounded by good friends and family at a BBQ.

Richie Norton

#45. 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

#46. The quality of a good leader therefore is his vision, tenacity, and his capability.

Jack Ma

#47. 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

#48. I love helping entrepreneurs. It's something I really have fun doing. It's like planting a little seed and watching it grow. Any time I can help somebody, that's a good thing. It's fun. If I get to make some money at it, it's even better.

Mark Cuban

#49. Surrounding yourself with creative, imaginative people is a good strategy for success whether you're an entrepreneur seeking innovation or an artist looking for inspiration.

Harvey MacKay