Top 100 Quotes About An Entrepreneur
#1. A true measure of an entrepreneur / successful-person is how they deal with adversity.
Noah Kagan
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. Try to be an influencer rather just being an Entrepreneur.
Ujjwal Chugh
#6. I'm an entrepreneur. 'Ambitious' is my middle name.
Kim Kardashian
#7. When I finished school, I took my entire life savings - $5,000 - and invested it in a business. I was young. I was inexperienced. But I was an entrepreneur, and I was proud. And in six weeks, I was broke.
Mark Warner
#8. An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true.
Vinod Khosla
#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. I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.
Richard Branson
#11. Central planning didn't work for Stalin or Mao, and it won't work for an entrepreneur either.
Michael Bloomberg
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Being an entrepreneur is tough. Really, really tough.
David S. Rose
#15. Frankly, I'm more of a researcher, teacher,motivat or, and coach than I am an entrepreneur.
David Allen
#16. Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business.
Peter Diamandis
#17. People always ask is it hard being an entrepreneur and a mum, and the answer is 'yes.'
Natalie Massenet
#18. The problem you ultimately want to have, as an entrepreneur, is deciding who to help, not deciding who can help you.
Gene Simmons
#19. Anyone who is employable would go get a job. They wouldn't be an entrepreneur.
Corey Breier
#20. 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
#21. It's good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur.
Matt Mullenweg
#22. Investing in a startup does not make you an entrepreneur any more than buying a grand piano makes you a concert pianist.
Jeffrey Fry
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. Fluid intelligence is not a Big Five personality trait: It's a measurement of one's ability to rapidly learn and apply a rule set. As an entrepreneur, you're rapidly dealing with different issues, and your ability to switch from one issue to another is very important.
Adeo Ressi
#28. An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.
Victor Kiam
#29. I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I started my own software company in high school and went to college to study entrepreneurship.
Marc Benioff
#30. 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
#31. I advise all of the entrepreneurs that I know to attend at least one entrepreneurship event every week. The worst thing an entrepreneur can do is to confine his or herself to a cubby hole.
Vivek Wadhwa
#32. I don't compete, I dominate. I don't participate, I partner. I AM AN ENTREPRENEUR.
Farshad Asl
#33. An entrepreneur sells his thoughts and ideas as a packaged product.
Debasish Mridha
#34. If I had one piece of advice to tell an entrepreneur, I always say, 'You have to have emotional investment in what you're working on.' That's what we lacked at Odeo.
Biz Stone
#35. Everyone can tell you the risk. An entrepreneur can see the reward.
Robert Kiyosaki
#36. An entrepreneur is a leader of excellence, trailblazer and pioneer who constantly brings change to their generation.
Onyi Anyado
#37. You can never be satisfied as an entrepreneur, and the basis of any successful, growing business is new clients.
Robert Herjavec
#38. I'm an entrepreneur. I'm not a politician.
Robin Li
#39. I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny.
Naveen Jain
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. If you must then hire for passion first, experience second and credentials third. Then train those hired for directed passion, dropping the excess baggage and the whole process of unlearning. An entrepreneur is much like an architect shapping human resources into a well crafted power house.
Nikhil Sharda
#44. 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
#45. Most of what I learned as an entrepreneur was by trial and error.
Gordon Moore
#46. An entrepreneur starts at square one and is not afraid to take chances to get to square one hundred and one
Laura Berg
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#52. 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
#53. I think that initial independence is very important; that's what being an entrepreneur is all about.
Jon Oringer
#54. Being an entrepreneur is like being a pirate. Go for the booty and discover new, uncharted lands
Jeffrey Fry
#55. 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
#56. 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. 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
#58. Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.
Anita Roddick
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. If you want swashbuckling action in your life, become an entrepreneur and give it a go.
Richard Branson
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. In America, everybody thinks they're an entrepreneur. That's the problem. It's not a title that anybody should call oneself.
Alan Sugar
#66. 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
#67. An entrepreneur is someone who can make enough money to pay for their mistakes.
Jayson Gaignard
#68. 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
#69. Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.
Robert Kiyosaki
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. People are recognizing that I am an entrepreneur and do more than be on a reality TV show.
Kim Kardashian
#73. 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
#74. It takes a special kind of stubbornness to succeed as an entrepreneur
Sophia Amoruso
#75. 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
#76. An entrepreneur is like a musician creating a new song.
Ehab Atalla
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. As an entrepreneur, one cannot just work and not say anything.
Wang Shi
#80. 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
#81. Being an entrepreneur simply means being someone who wants to make a difference to other people's lives.
Richard Branson
#82. 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
#83. Nothing turns off an investor more than when an entrepreneur comes in with a ridiculous valuation.
Kevin Harrington
#84. An entrepreneur is someone that steals office supplies from home and brings them to work.
Auren Hoffman
#85. 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
#86. I'm not really sure where it comes from, but every time I meet someone who says 'I really want to be an entrepreneur' but has no idea what they want to do, I really just think: 'This person is totally aimless.'
Dustin Moskovitz
#87. Being an # entrepreneur is not a get-rich scheme; it takes # strength of character to keep going.
Robert Kiyosaki
#88. Being an entrepreneur is a mindset. You have to see things as opportunities all the time. I like to do interviews. I like to push people on certain topics. I like to dig into the stories where there's not necessarily a right or wrong answer.
Soledad O'Brien
#89. Nobody does just one thing. But the real difference between being an entrepreneur and everyone else in the world is the ability to monetize. I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold.
Gene Simmons
#90. It's not easy for an entrepreneur to find the time to blog. But for those who do it, it is a great tool to communicate with the various stakeholders in their business and build a reputation for thought leadership.
Fred Wilson
#91. I was never, ever interested in becoming a businessman or an entrepreneur. If I was a businessman, or saw myself as a businessman, I would have never gone into the airline business.
Richard Branson
#92. My fear drives me. My faith directs me. I am an entrepreneur.
Farshad Asl
#93. Anyone can be an entrepreneur. All it takes is a little drive and ambition.
Robert Kiyosaki
#94. Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical decisions rather than company-building decisions and in my view often reduces the probability of success.
Vinod Khosla
#95. 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
#96. Being an entrepreneur is sexy ... for those who haven't done it. In reality it's gritty, tough work where you will be filled with self doubt. Entrepreneurs are survivors.
Mark Suster
#97. Not only CAN anyone be an entrepreneur, but they MUST be.
Reid Hoffman
#98. To be an entrepreneur in Europe, there is a stigma attached to it. There's a reason why England is known as a nation of shopkeepers. Part of it is the idea that it's better to have a shop and keep it up and running than close the doors and try to do something much more significant.
Danny Rimer
#99. An entrepreneur is someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.
Reid Hoffman
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