Top 100 Quotes About Entrepreneurial
#1. So the fact that the first movie about Steve Jobs was made by a guy who was completely entrepreneurial and outside the film industry, I think is very appropriate.
Joshua Michael Stern
#2. The bigger the 'why' the easier the 'how'.
Jim Rohn
#3. When you have an idea, a classic entrepreneurial impulse is to hold the idea close to you and not tell people and that's almost always a mistake.
Reid Hoffman
#4. My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.
Thomas Jane
#5. I surround myself with inspirational quotations. This easy-to-follow piece of advice has played a huge role in my being able to get past my own fears and insecurities throughout my entrepreneurial career.
Blake Mycoskie
#6. Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We've got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.
Ross Perot
#7. A touch of the jitters sharpens the mind, gets the adrenaline flowing and helps you to focus.
Richard Branson
#8. Capitalism does a number of things very well: it helps create an entrepreneurial spirit; it gets people motivated to come up with new ideas, and that's a good thing.
Bernie Sanders
#9. Engineering college students should be encouraged to start entrepreneurial ventures in their second year itself. It is safer to fail while in college.
Kris Gopalakrishnan
#10. You want to be a corporate success; you want to be an entrepreneurial success. That's the beginnings of the feminist movement which sought to emulate men.
Rush Limbaugh
#11. Let me say that I think the economic history of the last 150 years clearly shows that if you want to industrialize a country in a short period, let us say 20 years, and you don't have a well-developed private sector, entrepreneurial class, then central planning is important.
Manmohan Singh
#12. These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the pragmatic language of venture capital, they were at heart utopian thinkers intent on transforming the world.
Alain De Botton
#14. Risk taking and the drive to pursue innovative ideas are the fuel that stokes the entrepreneurial spirit.
Daniel Goleman
#15. The ability to bounce back after a setback is the single most important trait an entrepreneurial venture can possess.
Richard Branson
#16. I have a profound dislike for showing off one's material wealth. This is insensitive and it is not what human hearts are made for. But what I like about China and sometimes miss in Europe is the entrepreneurial spirit of our young people, their ambition and dynamism.
Zhang Xin
#17. Even if you're not yet an entrepreneur, you can be entrepreneurial in everything you do. If you view each stop as an opportunity to learn something, there is always something you will take away from that experience.
Tory Burch
#18. Don't make promises when you are motivated or happy. Don't make decisions when you are nervous or upset.
Ehab Atalla
#19. Many follow a rule of thumb - no more than 5% in one stock. But that's not the entrepreneurial road to riches.
Kenneth Fisher
#20. I am not primarily an entrepreneurial businessman. I'm primarily a playboy philosopher.
Hugh Hefner
#21. Entrepreneurial employees possess what eBay CEO John Donahoe calls the founder mind-set. As he put it to us, People with the founder mind-set drive change, motivate people, and just get stuff done.
Reid Hoffman
#22. Some people were born to work for others. Not in a mindless, servile-way
rather they simply work better in a set regimen of daily tasks and functions. Others were born of the entrepreneurial spirit and enjoy the demands of self-determination and the roll of the dice.
Richard Paul Evans
#23. Most Fortune 500 companies began as small start-ups whose entrepreneurial founders slowly developed the infrastructure, hired the staff, sourced manufacturers or built their own factory, and created distribution, sales, and marketing plans.
Lynda Resnick
#24. The franchise model is great, because most people who are entrepreneurial want flexibility and time to do what they love. A lot home business entrepreneurs struggle because they have to do everything.
Rory Vaden
#25. Very often ambition and entrepreneurial drive, in combination, beat brilliance.
Edward O. Wilson
#26. There were some entrepreneurial du Ponts that are a little different from the heads of the corporations today.
Pete Du Pont
#27. Our region's economy was built upon their entrepreneurial spirit, and our economy still depends on the continued success of the enterprises they have worked so hard to create.
Doc Hastings
#28. Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.
Reed Hastings
#29. All companies can benefit from fostering a more flexible environment (creating a place where the most talented, industrious, and entrepreneurial people want to work) and relinquishing hierarchical control to favor a results-oriented meritocracy.
Maynard Webb
#30. It is very important that people see there is a bright future, and we can re-engage that entrepreneurial spirit of the trading nation for which the U.K. has always been known - that dynamic, creative spirit.
Theresa May
#32. We've got to be entrepreneurial; we've got to be innovative, and we've got to figure out ways of getting things done that people might think are very unorthodox.
Cory Booker
#33. My mom raised me with the idea of doing public service, and I definitely want to go in that direction. But I also want to follow in my dad's entrepreneurial footsteps.
Patrick Schwarzenegger
#34. Thatcher forged consent through the cultivation of a middle class that relished the joys of home ownership, private property, individualism, and the liberation of entrepreneurial opportunities.
David Harvey
#35. When you're invested in your own business, you're going to run it better. When people are financially responsible for whether their store succeeds, they're going to have that kind of entrepreneurial spirit that's harder to get if headquarters is running things.
Fred DeLuca
#36. The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.
Reid Hoffman
#37. He is - and this is a fundamental entrepreneurial talent - a master illusionist. It's the essential entrepreneurial skill, to convince people you are what you have yet to become.
Michael Wolff
#38. What the federal government should have done is accept the assistance of foreign countries, of entrepreneurial Americans who have had solution that they wanted presented ... The Dutch and the Norwegians, they are known for dikes and for cleaning up water and for dealing with spills.
Sarah Palin
#39. As every slumdweller knew, there were three main ways out of poverty: finding an entrepreneurial niche, as the Husains had found in garbage; politics and corruption, in which Asha placed her hopes; and education.
Katherine Boo
#40. History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?
Jon Meacham
#42. The most entrepreneurial employees want to establish "personal brands" that stand apart from their employers'. It's a rational, necessary response to the end of lifetime employment.
Reid Hoffman
#43. I don't think a lot of people have been entrepreneurial about venture capital.
Josh Kopelman
#44. I think the biggest myth entrepreneurs have is that the growth and performance of their startups depends more on their entrepreneurial talent than on the businesses they choose.
Scott Shane
#45. The future will be owned and operated by the entrepreneurial ly minded.
Mark Victor Hansen
#46. I'm hoping that my entrepreneurial side will have me at a place where I don't have to do anything. That's what I'm striving for.
Mary J. Blige
#47. Part of the entrepreneurial thing is there are lots of ways to die.
Reid Hoffman
#48. Someone Else's words can detour your potential!
John Di Lemme
#49. Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself.
Brian Tracy
#50. Being both entrepreneurial and social is no longer an oxymoron, but rather a tautology.
Jeremy Rifkin
#51. America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
Wayne Grady
#52. I am very lucky to live in California, which is not only filled with very entrepreneurial people who don't wait around for success, but who make their own.
Benjamin Stone
#53. America is sinking under the crushing weight of the ever-expanding regulatory state. This burden threatens to disrupt our recovery, hamper long-term growth, undermine our global competitiveness, and suffocate the entrepreneurial spirit so vital to America's success.
Tom J. Donohue
#54. Israel has incredible entrepreneurial spirit and a deep bench of technology talent.
Roelof Botha
#55. Entrepreneurial business favours the open mind. It favours people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so.
Richard Branson
#56. Entrepreneurial creation is the generation, de novo, of novelty and surprise - freedom of choice originating in the world of ideas, and imagination beyond all concern with chemicals. The contrary view - that all ideas are determined by material relationships - is the materialist superstition.
George Gilder
#57. At a young age I always had an entrepreneurial spirit. So I'm trying to develop things on my own, too, and there are a couple things that have absolutely nothing to do with the entertainment business that I'm trying to tackle. We'll just sort of see.
Jennifer Carpenter
#58. 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
#59. In a free economy, a high degree of apparent randomness does not mean actual randomness. An apparently random pattern is evidence not of purposelessness but of an entrepreneurial economy full of creative surprises.
George Gilder
#60. When I was in the private sector, one characteristic that differentiated the best entrepreneurs from the others was that they were not in it for the stock options, but for a mission - to deliver something that was helpful ... Every entrepreneurial journey, it turns out, is like this.
Todd Park
#61. Entrepreneurial people are never satisfied.
Tom Douglas
#63. Obviously, New York and Boston and Los Angeles have pretty vibrant entrepreneurial scenes.
Jason Calacanis
#64. If you want to get into a good entrepreneurial business, guillotines may be in fashion.
Gerald Celente
#66. I suspect there's a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren't going to attract entrepreneurial talent.
Evan Williams
#67. The collision of mobile and social platforms and the need to build these companies from the ground up - whether it's a game, a healthcare application, an education application - building these from the ground up is what allows entrepreneurial activity to be unleashed.
Jim Breyer
#68. The Ankh-Morpork Trespassers' Society was originally the Explorers' Society until Lord Vetinari forcibly insisted that most of the places 'discovered' by the society's members already had people in them, who were already trying to sell snakes to the newcomers.
Terry Pratchett
#70. Debtors and idlers abounded in the colonial era, but failing in business was not so calamitous as falling from grace... In Early America, fear of failure loomed largest on Sunday. Monday morning dawned about the year 1800. By then, 'failure' meant an entrepreneurial failure.
Scott A. Sandage
#71. Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.
Michael Gerber
#72. If you have company-owned stores, you make 100 percent of the profit from each one, but you have less entrepreneurial spirit.
Fred DeLuca
#73. My creative side is identifying all these great entrepreneurial creative people that come up with great ideas, whether they are in fashion or technology or a new tool to improve ourselves.
Carmen Busquets
#74. You have to change your environment to serve your purpose.
Ehab Atalla
#75. When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun.
Anita Roddick
#76. Most startups eventually pivot to adjust to what the market is telling them.
Alejandro Cremades
#77. Of all the entrepreneurial opportunities available today, one of the most important is direct selling, also called network marketing.
Paul Zane Pilzer
#78. An entrepreneurial economy is what made America great. People didn't come to settle the country several hundred years ago for all the good paying jobs. There weren't any. There was nothing but natural resources and opportunities. - Chris Lutz, Modular Career Design
Chris Lutz
#79. One key to entrepreneurial success is to get a great group of people around you who believe in your idea.
Richard Branson
#80. Fashion was in a crisis up until the mid-'90s and, when it came out of the crisis, it was a very different place. It was a place that nurtured and cultivated young entrepreneurial designers.
Tim Gunn
#81. Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.
Gary Wright
#82. A little-known company with a realistic framework that appeals to entrepreneurial employees is going to be more attractive than a famous company that treats its people like disposable assets.
Reid Hoffman
#83. I believe that drudgery and clock-watching are a terrible betrayal of that universal, inborn entrepreneurial spirit.
Richard Branson
#84. The stronger the culture, the less corporate process a company needs. When the culture is strong, you can trust everyone to do the right thing. People can be independent and autonomous. They can be entrepreneurial.
Brian Chesky
#85. Even the best data security systems can't protect private taxpayer information from entrepreneurial foreign businesses than can make huge profits selling U.S. taxpayer information.
Melissa Bean
#86. 'Your Life Calling' is the first thing in my long career I've ever actually invented. It is my entrepreneurial debut.
Jane Pauley
#87. The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
Harold S. Geneen
#88. Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.
George Gilder
#89. China is very entrepreneurial but has no rule of law. Europe has rule of law but isn't entrepreneurial. Combine rule of law, entrepreneurialism and a generally pro-business policy, and you have Apple.
Marc Andreessen
#90. Some people will always think they know how to make other people's marriages better, and, after a while, they'll get to cudgeling you or selling you something; the really entrepreneurial types will sell you the cudgel.
Jill Lepore
#91. I've been entrepreneurial since middle school. I was always arranging bake sales, dances and school trips to raise money for the Dalton School.
Dylan Lauren
#92. Successful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft.
Paul Singer
#93. What I'm getting at here is that you can be entrepreneurial without being an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurial people are passionate about what they do, comfortable taking risks, and quick at moving on from failures.
Sophia Amoruso
#94. What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.
Peter Drucker
#95. The aim of open government is to take advantage of the know-how and entrepreneurial spirit of those outside government institutions to work together with those inside government to solve problems.
Beth Simone Noveck
#96. Unlike sport in business the win-win is the best possible score
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#97. Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#98. Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
#99. My mom started an air-freight company; my grandmother built a golf course. I have a certain degree of entrepreneurial risk-taking in my family history. Maybe that eventually rubbed off on me a little bit.
Brian Acton
#100. I've always been an engineer devoted to the potential of advanced technologies. Like most engineers, I have a keen sense of curiosity and a deep desire to learn. Garmin was my first entrepreneurial endeavour, and it has been an incredible journey.
Min Kao
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