Small Entrepreneur Quotes

#1. Big oil, big steel, big agriculture avoid the open marketplace. Big corporations fix prices among themselves and thus drive out of business the small entrepreneur. Also, in their conglomerate form, the huge corporations have begun to challenge the very legitimacy of the state.

Gore Vidal

#2. The market is sovereign and in the magic economy of the small entrepreneur there is no authoritarian center ... in the political sphere ... the equilibrium of powers prevails, and hence there is no chance of despotism.

C. Wright Mills

#3. 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

#4. This sounded the death knell of small family businesses, soon to be followed by the disappearance of the individual entrepreneur, gobbled up one by one by the increasingly hungry ogre of capitalism, and drowned by the rising tide of large companies.

Emile Zola

#5. Just start. A small business can take you to the level of empire.

Ehab Atalla

#6. Social Media Strategy isn't rocket science...but it might as well be if you don't know what you're doing.

Sherree Mongrain

#7. At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.

Carlos Slim

#8. A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them.

Robert Reed

#9. I'm a believer that you accomplish much, much more with direct relationships than by using an intermediary. And that cash you keep in the bank can be the difference between staying alive as a small business, or not.

Mark Cuban

#10. Time is your most valuable currency!

John Di Lemme

#11. Convenience will put you out of business!

John Di Lemme

#12. 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

#13. The ability to raise capital is the most important skill of an entrepreneur. The inability to raise capital keeps most small businesses small.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#14. The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.

Sachin Bansal

#15. There are lots of things that I will probably never experience in this life. Military combat. Being dictator of a small central American country. Dunking a basketball. Being a famous rock star. Or walking on Mars. But one thing I have been, and will always be, is an entrepreneur.

Michael Arrington

#16. Success steps: Think big. Act small. Then scale.

Failure steps: Act big. Think small. Then shrink.

Consider your next big thing a project. Get one. Get it right. No sense growing a broken system.

Richie Norton

#17. What kind of impression are you leaving on people? Activate the ability for your first impression and last impression!

John Di Lemme