Top 100 Quotes About An Entrepreneur
#1. Don't let the fear of failure or failure as a whole stop you from becoming an entrepreneur. Failure doesn't define you or your business unless you allow it to.
Jeet Banerjee
#2. The greatest opportunities today are to go into business for yourself as an entrepreneur.
Paul Zane Pilzer
#3. I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold. No matter what I do - outside of sticking my tongue out - I tend to make money, and quite a bit in non-KISS stuff.
Gene Simmons
#4. Robots are the new middle class. And everyone else will either be an entrepreneur or a temp staffer.
James Altucher
#5. The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.
Silvio Berlusconi
#6. 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
#7. Successful entrepreneurs don't have better ideas; instead they have better mindsets for taking action. Action is what sets apart an aspiring entrepreneur from others.
Farshad Asl
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. As an entrepreneur, you've got to protect against the company going bust. And as an adventurer, you've got to protect against losing your life. It's even more important as an adventurer to get it right.
Richard Branson
#11. As an entrepreneur making decisions for your company, always go back to your first principles of what's important to you and why you started in the first place.
Matt Mullenweg
#12. If you are an entrepreneur planning to start your own company, I can't think of a better place to begin than by operating your business by the Golden Rule. Make this a high priority; never make a decision that contradicts the Golden Rule.
Mary Kay Ash
#13. At SGI board meetings ... Jim Clark's face would get red and he'd start shouting that an investor and board member had cheated him and his engineers.
Michael Lewis
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. You need money to make money is nonsense! Entrepreneur people who started with nothing but an idea.
Timi Nadela
#17. 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
#18. I am an entrepreneur and my goal is to create invention to the solution of human trafficking and extreme poverty.
David Batstone
#19. An inventor creates something that works. An entrepreneur creates something that others will buy.
Chris Brogan
#21. You can't study to be an entrepreneur. Sometimes, you just have to jump.
Barbara Corcoran
#22. I've been an entrepreneur all my life, and my recent focus is on finding entrepreneurial solutions to address global challenges in healthcare and education.
Naveen Jain
#23. As an entrepreneur, you work out solutions.
Les Wexner
#24. Regardless of whether you are an entrepreneur or whether you are an employee of a large company, the absolute prerequisite is that you must know your stuff. There is no substitute for this.
Fred C. Koch
#25. That's part of being an entrepreneur - you watch your pennies.
Tom Golisano
#26. Your biggest challenge as an entrepreneur is not concealing your idea from others or keeping your idea a secret, it is actually convincing people that you're not crazy and that you can pull this off.
Sean Parker
#27. The idea of becoming an entrepreneur is something that is not taught very well in school and is something that people should try to do earlier on.
Peter Thiel
#28. 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
#29. As an entrepreneur, I try to push the limits. Pedal to the metal.
Travis Kalanick
#30. Being an entrepreneur means the ability to think out of the box by putting away our fear of any risk, including financial.
Ciputra
#31. 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
#32. A social entrepreneur is somebody who knows how to make an idea reality.
Eboo Patel
#33. 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
#34. I'm an engineer turned entrepreneur who's passionate about connection.
Leah Busque
#35. The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.
David Geffen
#36. As an entrepreneur, you never stop learning.
Daymond John
#37. 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
#38. the chance of an average developing-country person being an entrepreneur is more than twice that for a developed-country person (30 per cent vs. 12.8 per cent).
Ha-Joon Chang
#39. I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.
Biz Stone
#40. 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
#41. Being an entrepreneur isn't just a job title, and it isn't just about starting a company. It's a state of mind. It's about seeing connections others can't, seizing opportunities others won't, and forging new directions that others haven't.
Tory Burch
#42. To have a successful career, you have to approach it as an entrepreneur, even if you are working for someone else. Your career is your own private business. You have to market yourself and your abilities and knowledge just as you would a product or service.
Earl G. Graves, Sr.
#44. 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
#45. In fact, I've come to think of making stone soup as the only way an entrepreneur can succeed.
Peter H. Diamandis
#46. 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
#47. Try to be an influencer rather just being an Entrepreneur.
Ujjwal Chugh
#48. Being an entrepreneur is tough. Really, really tough.
David S. Rose
#49. Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business.
Peter Diamandis
#50. 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
#51. Anyone who is employable would go get a job. They wouldn't be an entrepreneur.
Corey Breier
#52. As an entrepreneur, in many ways it's like looking into the crystal ball for what my company will hopefully go through as it starts to think about bigger challenges - scaling internationally, getting ready to go public, and all those different things.
Mike McCue
#53. My undergraduate studies at Brown and graduate degrees from Harvard prepared me for a multifaceted career as an actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist.
Hill Harper
#54. You must fall in love with what you do, because being an entrepreneur is a lot of hard work, and overcoming a lot of adversity. From that love will come the dedication that will get you out of bed at 4 a.m. because of a great idea you just had and get you to work till 11 p.m. and not feel tired.
Ken Field
#56. If you're looking to become an entrepreneur then don't waste your time going to university or business school - just get on and do it.
Richard Branson
#57. An entrepreneur sells his thoughts and ideas as a packaged product.
Debasish Mridha
#58. You can never be satisfied as an entrepreneur, and the basis of any successful, growing business is new clients.
Robert Herjavec
#59. I'm an entrepreneur. I'm not a politician.
Robin Li
#60. Being an entrepreneur and starting new companies require a lot of sacrifice. Sacrifice that you have to make. Because in order to be really successful, your company becomes your life. And then you have to really dedicate your time and energy fully to this endeavor that you start.
Anousheh Ansari
#61. One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.
Alan Cooper
#62. I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.
Nancy Lublin
#63. An entrepreneur starts at square one and is not afraid to take chances to get to square one hundred and one
Laura Berg
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. If you want swashbuckling action in your life, become an entrepreneur and give it a go.
Richard Branson
#68. Building a family is an entrepreneurial experience.
Richie Norton
#69. 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
#70. In America, everybody thinks they're an entrepreneur. That's the problem. It's not a title that anybody should call oneself.
Alan Sugar
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. As an entrepreneur, don't follow the crowd; let them follow you.
George Foreman
#75. To become a distinguished entrepreneur, you need to have an undeniable, unquestionable and unmovable passion for your vision.
Onyi Anyado
#76. 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
#77. As an entrepreneur, you love your business like a child, and you're taught to be laser-focused on the business.
Daymond John
#78. When I got out of college, I gave myself till I was 30 to invent a product. If I couldn't do it by then, I would just get a real job. And that fear - the fear of a real job - motivated me to be an entrepreneur.
Nick Woodman
#79. An entrepreneur is someone who, almost artistically, designs a living entity which embodies the values, beliefs, and ambitions of the creator
Jake Lodwick
#80. I value an entrepreneur I can get behind and trust, because I know they are attempting to move forward in life.
Daymond John
#81. I think, as an entrepreneur, you have to see the unlimited amount of potential but concentrate on your day and just keep building.
Jon Oringer
#82. Mary Lasker was an entrepreneur; she was a socialite. She was kind of a legendary networker. She became interested in saying, 'Well, you know, if these diseases don't have political support we'll never conquer them.' And she made, really, cancer her special cause.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#83. The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.
Tom Hooper
#84. Selling is the most important skill as an entrepreneur. I'm not talking so much about selling a product so much as selling yourself, team, and deals.
Robert Kiyosaki
#85. Don't think of yourself as a surrogate mule, think of yourself as an entrepreneur of the physical.
George Saunders
#86. An entrepreneur needs to have values. Values that are wholesome.
Ronnie Apteker
#87. I've always been an entrepreneur. I start businesses for a living.
Jay S. Walker
#88. If, as is generally the case, the heirs are not equal to the demands which life makes on an entrepreneur, the inherited wealth rapidly vanishes.
Ludwig Von Mises
#89. You must, as an entrepreneur - if that's your position - be doing things that really move the needle.
Nick Woodman
#90. Not only CAN anyone be an entrepreneur, but they MUST be.
Reid Hoffman
#91. Anyone can be an entrepreneur. All it takes is a little drive and ambition.
Robert Kiyosaki
#92. Seeing the world around you clearly is a critical step in developing an idea for a business, carrying out that idea, and then thriving with an ongoing concern. Through choice, predilection, lack of education, impatience, or other causes, the entrepreneur lives, in a way, outside the mainstream.
Paul Hawken
#93. If your position or job is on the liability side of the balance sheet, you can be looked at as a risk rather than an asset to your employer. Another reason to be an entrepreneur. - Chris Lutz, Modular Career Design
Chris Lutz
#94. Being an entrepreneur is not about being in love with an idea, it's about being in love with running a company.
Max Levchin
#95. To describe yourself as an entrepreneur or a disrupter is as meaningless as describing yourself as an athlete or a thinker. Really? What sports do you play? What do you think about?
Eric Weiner
#96. Anybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of success are zilch.
Tom Peters
#97. Well, you know, I love being an entrepreneur and when I did 'Celebrity Apprentice' with Mr. Trump, he taught us a lot about starting businesses.
NeNe Leakes
#98. There are a lot of people building small ideas now. There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.
Dustin Moskovitz
#99. Entrepreneurs become entrepreneurs for one simple reason: to be free. If you give that up, then you stop being an entrepreneur, and to hell with that. - Wilson Harrell, founder of over 100 companies and former publisher of Inc. Magazine
Ron Davison
#100. I suddenly began to realize that to become an entrepreneur in the marijuana business would make me fairly well off. And I also liked the lifestyle, my own working hours.
George Jung
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