Quotes About Young Entrepreneurs

#1. Young entrepreneurs should spend an awful lot of time thinking about what they want to go into.

John Kluge

#2. I don't understand why young entrepreneurs feel this pressure to take venture capital or go public. Don't get me wrong: Public companies are A-OK with me. I just think there is another way. Staying private is a lot more sane.

Jack Dangermond

#3. 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

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

Govind

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

Mark Zuckerberg

#6. My advice to young entrepreneurs is not to accept defeat in the face of odds, and challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction.

Dhirubhai Ambani

#7. Mark Zuckerberg will be a hero to many young entrepreneurs 20 years from now. Bill Gates will be a hero to others, and they will look to those [people] like I read books when I was in my teens about Rockefeller or Carnegie.

Warren Buffett

#8. I would say to young entrepreneurs and budding philanthropists - are you giving to feel good or do good?

Andrew Forrest

#9. I think that Vancouver as well as Canada needs a boot camp for young entrepreneurs. We have already seen tens if not hundreds of people put their names forward to be involved in the program, and we just think this is an amazing way to accelerate what they're doing.

Ryan Holmes

#10. We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.

Pete Cashmore

#11. Social entrepreneurs are married to a vision of, for example, a better way of helping young people grow up or of delivering global healthcare. They simply will not stop because they cannot be happy until their vision becomes the new pattern.

Bill Drayton

#12. You don't need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.

Larry Page

#13. Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.

Drew Houston

#14. One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you.

Jeff Bezos

#15. I'm encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, rather than just making money. Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.

Muhammad Yunus

#16. If you start with nothing and end up with nothing, there's nothing lost.

Michael Dunlop

#17. 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

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

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#19. 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

#20. There's no committee that says, 'This is the type of person who can change the world - and you can't.' Realizing that anyone can do it is the first step. The next step is figuring out how you're going to do it.

Adora Svitak

#21. If you just work on stuff that you like and you're passionate about, you don't have to have a master plan with how things will play out.

Mark Zuckerberg

#22. There is a lot more young Indian entrepreneurs can do if they are given the money. They have the idea, and I would just like to help them realise it.

Kerry Packer

#23. I'm not afraid of dying I'm afraid of not trying

Jay-Z

#24. When I was starting out, being a young entrepreneur was not fashionable. Parents would ask, 'When are you going to get a real job?'

Kevin Harrington

#25. The people here are amazing - the young people here are amazing. The entrepreneurs here are incredible.

Ashton Kutcher

#26. If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

Reid Hoffman

#27. I got an email from the Crown Prince of Norway asking me to talk at a summit for young Norwegian entrepreneurs. I ran to my wife and was like, 'Hey! I got an email from the Prince of Norway!'

Nick Woodman

#28. Body piercing and baggy clothes express identity among black youth, and not just beginning with hip-hop culture. Moreover, young black entrepreneurs like Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs and Russell Simmons have made millions from their clothing lines.

Michael Eric Dyson

#29. Every day I would wake up and think, 'Today is another missed opportunity to do something important.' After enough days like this, you start feeling like you are getting old, even when you are relatively young. We are all natural entrepreneurs, and being manacled to a desk job is not for us.

Brian Chesky

#30. Every single person I know who is successful at what they do is successful because they love doing it.

Joe Penna